Hungarian PM Announces Visegrád Group 'Reset' with Summit on June 23

Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced on Friday a “reset” of the Visegrád Group (V4), stating that the next summit meeting will take place on June 23 in Budapest and Gödöllő. He posted on X that the prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia have all accepted his invitation.

“I am pleased that the Prime Ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia have all accepted my invitation to Budapest and Gödöllő on 23 June. Let us work together for a strong Central Europe!” he wrote. Magyar had previously expressed a desire to expand the V4 membership.

In recent years, relations among V4 member states worsened due to the fundamentally different positions of former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and subsequently Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico from Warsaw and Prague on several issues, including the Russia-Ukraine war. For instance, in fall 2025, Polish President Karol Nawrocki canceled a meeting with Orbán after his trip to Putin.

Orbán's camp, after the election victory of populist Andrej Babiš in the Czech Republic, had hoped to create an “anti-Ukrainian alliance” in the EU together with Slovakia and the Czech Republic. After taking office as Hungarian PM, Péter Magyar made his first foreign visit to Poland to “reset” bilateral relations.