The prime ministers of the Visegrad Group — Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic — met for the first time in over two years near Budapest, hosted by Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar, AP reported on June 23. The leaders agreed to coordinate positions before European Council and Council of the European Union meetings and discussed energy, agriculture and migration, while Magyar proposed a high-speed rail line linking the four capitals.

The election of Magyar in Hungary in April 2026 and of Donald Tusk in Poland in December 2023 brought the group's two largest members into closer alignment with Brussels and eased the bilateral tensions that had strained Polish-Hungarian relations since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. However, the Czech Republic and Slovakia remain led by euroskeptic, Moscow-friendly governments. The Visegrad Group, founded in 1991, has seen its cohesion rise and fall with each member's domestic politics.