The United States has been a strong supporter of the Three Seas Initiative from the start and it addresses many of our shared priorities – Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said in his remarks on the Three Seas Initiative. – We applaud your work, and are eager to work with you to strengthen a Europe that is whole, free, prosperous and at peace - added U.S. Secretary of State. Like you, we want more regional economic development.

The Heads of Government of the Visegrad Group agreed to increase the annual budget of the International Visegrad Fund to EUR 10 million, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, announced in Cracow.

Polish Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak and his Hungarian counterpart Tibor Benkő signed a bilateral military cooperation agreement in Budapest on Tuesday. ​ Photo credit: PAP/Leszek Szymański (jap)

In the next few months we will complete the mass inoculation plan, gradually phase out the Covid-19 restrictions based on people's views and implement our action plan designed to restart the economy – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on the first day of the Hungarian parliament's spring session on Monday. ​

Hungary has joined the Three Seas Investment Fund and submitted proposals for 16 projects covering the areas of digitalisation, shipping and energy, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at an online meeting of foreign ministers focusing on the Three Seas Initiative

– Visegrad Group is an important catalyst of Central-European cooperation – Andrzej Duda said at the summit of the presidents of the Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia held on February 9-10 at the Polish presidential residency in Jurata on Hel Peninsula on the coast of the Baltic Sea.

„In Hungary we say that you can only be a good European if you are a good Hungarian” – the Hungarian Prime Minister told the German Stern magazine. Fot. Radek Pietruszka / PAP (jap)

Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are starting small with a joint move to buy training ammunition – Czech Minister of Defense Lubomír Metnar wrote on Twitter. Fot. Twitter

92,233 children were born in Hungary in 2020, 3,040 more than in the year before. – We are proud to say that in the last ten years, among all the member states of the European Union, the desire to have children has increased the most in Hungary – minister Katalin Novák said, quoted by the Magyar Hírlap daily. 

– If in the coming decades, in the upcoming elections, we do not maintain national governments in Central Europe, I do not exclude that by the time our children grow up to our age, Europe will already be the fourth empire, where it does not matter that there are member states, national cultures – warns the chairman of the Hungarian National Assembly, László Kövér in an interview with Robert Zawadzki, published in the "Do Rzeczy" weekly.

“Allowing hundreds of thousand non-vaccinated people to enter Europe would give a fresh impetus to the pandemic” – Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, told MTI after his visit to Warsaw.   ​

"Central Europe Is no longer just a peripheral space between East and West" – writes Andrzej Duda. In the article translated into four foreign languages Polish President also underlined the importance of the Visegrad Group within the context of regional cooperation. PHOTO CREDIT. Paweł Supernak / PAP