The Visegrad Group was formed in the 1990s to eliminate the remnants of the communist bloc in Central Europe, to overcome the historic animosities between Central European countries, to accomplish a social metamorphosis and to join both the EU and NATO. So, Visegrad was as much about transformation towards Western liberal democracies and functioning market economies as it was about enhancing the security and long-term stabilization of the region by integrating it with the existing Western structures.
Today, integration with the EU and NATO has been formally achieved and with the growing number of internal and external challenges, the significance of …read more
Source: Visegrad Insight
