V4 will have to expand to gain real influence, says former FM

Varsó, 2016. július 21. A Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda által közreadott képen Robert Fico szlovák, Bohuslav Sobotka cseh, Beata Szydlo lengyel és Orbán Viktor magyar miniszterelnök (b-j) sajtótájékoztatót tart a visegrádi országok miniszterelnökeinek varsói találkozóján 2016. július 21-én. MTI Fotó: Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda/Szecsõdi Balázs

Budapest, July 22 (MTI) – The Visegrad Group will have to expand to include other countries in the region as well as countries from northern Europe if it is to gain real influence within the European Union, a former Hungarian foreign minister said on Friday.

Géza Jeszenszky, who was foreign minister in the government of József Antal between 1990 and 1994, told public television news channel M1 that the grouping of the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia could be enhanced by countries such as Croatia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, as well as northern European nations which are “struggling with similar problems”. In this way, the Visegrad Group would become a force to be reckoned with, he said, commenting on the recent V4 summit in Warsaw.

At the same time, he gave warning that some countries could create a new kind of eastern bloc within the EU.

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