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The Hungarian National Assembly's commitment to strengthening parliamentary collaboration within the Visegrád Co-Operation has been unbroken since the establishment of the co-operation in 1991. There have been regular parliamentary contacts since the meeting of the Chairs of the Foreign Affairs and Defence Committees of the Visegrád Group countries in 1998, as well as discussions among Speakers of Parliaments since the meeting of the Speakers of Parliaments held in 2003, in Budapest.
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Czech Presidency 01.07.2023 - 30.6.2024
Speaker-level meetings
The Czech Parliament, which holds the Presidency of the Visegrád Group from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024, organized the meeting of the Speakers of Parliaments of the V4 countries and Ukraine in Prague on 28-29 February 2024. The event was hosted by Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Speaker of the Czech Chamber of Deputies, and Miloš Vystrčil, President of the Czech Senate. The Hungarian National Assembly was represented by Csaba Hende, Deputy Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly, the Slovak National Council by Peter Pellegrini, Speaker, while the Polish Parliament by Szymon Hołowni, Marshal of the Sejm and Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, Marshal of the Senate.
Committee-level meetings
The Parliament of the Czech Rebublic, which holds the presidency of the parliamentary cooperation of the V4 between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024, organizes the meeting of the Defence and Security Committees of the parliaments of the V4 countries between 28-29 April 2024 in Prague.
Slovak Presidency 1.7.2022 - 30.6.2023.
Speaker-level meetings
The National Council of the Slovak Republic, which holds the Presidency of the Visegrád Group between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023, hosted the official meeting of the Speakers of Parliaments of the Visegrád Group in Bratislava Castle on 3 February 2023. At the invitation of Boris Kollár, Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, the event was attended by László Kövér, Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, Miloš Vystrčil, President of the Czech Senate, Elżbieta Witek, Marshal of the Polish Sejm and Tomasz Grodzki, Marshal of the Polish Senate. At the meeting, the Speakers discussed two topics: first, the security situation in our region, including the situation in Ukraine, as well as illegal migration and the protection of the Schengen area; followed by the energy crisis and its European solutions.
The regional cooperation of the four countries over the past 30 years has enabled us to represent our common interests while bridging ideological differences. The remarks made by the Speakers of the Parliaments of the Czech Republic with respect to our country are untrue and lack respect, they do not reflect the facts and call into question the right of the Hungarian government to shape its policies in the Hungarian national interest.
Committee-level meetings
Holding the Presidency of the Visegrád Group from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023, the National Council of the Slovak Republic organised a meeting for the Committees on Foreign Affairs of the Parliaments of the V4 countries on 19–20 February 2023 in Bratislava. At the invitation of Marián Kéry, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, delegations from the relevant committees of all V4 parliamentary chambers were in attendance. The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Hungarian National Assembly was represented by Committee Chairman Zsolt Németh as well as Committee Vice-Chairs Hajnalka Juhász and Koloman Brenner.
Under the Slovak Presidency of the Visegrad Cooperation, a videoconference was held by the National Council of the Slovak Republic for V4 Agricultural Committees on 19 December 2022, attended by European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski. The online discussion was held as a follow-up to the statement adopted by V4 Agricultural Committees at their meeting on 13-14 October in Bratislava and sent to the Commissioner. At the meeting of V4 Committee Chairs, the Hungarian National Assembly was represented by Balázs Győrffy, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Agriculture, who also led the Hungarian delegation at the Bratislava meeting in October.
The National Council of the Slovak Republic, which holds the Presidency of the Visegrád Group from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023, organised a meeting for the Defence and Security Committees of the Parliaments of the V4 countries on 4-5 December 2022 in Bratislava. The event was hosted by Juraj Krúpa, Chairman of the Defence and Security Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, and attended by representatives of the relevant committees of all V4 parliamentary chambers. The Committee on Defence and Law Enforcement of the Hungarian National Assembly was represented by Lajos Kósa, Chairman and Előd Novák, Member of the Committee, while the delegations of both Houses of the Polish Parliament and the Czech Senate were led by their respective Committee Chairs, with the Czech Chamber of Deputies being represented by its Vice-Chairs.
Related issues
Events
In the context of the Hungarian V4 Presidency, on 25 November 2021, the Embassy of Hungary in Paris organised an inter-parliamentary colloquium on the future of Europe, with the participation of national Members of Parliament from the V4 countries and France. At this face-to-face event, the Hungarian Parliament was represented by dr. Hajnalka Juhász, member of the Committee on European Affairs, and dr. László Szakács, member of the Committee on Economics.
The Conference of Speakers of Parliaments of Southeast European Countries was organised by the Hungarian National Assembly on 24 September 2021 in Budapest for the tenth time since its creation in 2004. The conference organized every two years since 2005 has been serving as a forum for the exchange of information with the parliaments of Southeast European countries. This year's meeting was devoted to the possibilities of the Southeast European Countries in contributing to the forming of the future of the EU.
Delegations of the Committees on European Affairs of V4 countries met in Prague between 5-7 September 2021. The meeting was organised by the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic. The delegation from the Committee on European Affairs of the Hungarian National Assembly at the event, which had the Covid situation and the restoration after pandemic, furthermore the "Fit for 55” proposal package on its agenda, included Dr. Richárd Hörcsik, chairman, Zoltán Balczó, Deputy Chairman, and dr. Attila Tilki, Member of the Committee. The meeting was chaired by Ondřej Benešík, Chairman of the Committee on European Affairs of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic.