Resulting from our longstanding belief that the Visegrad countries share common values and interests and – as endorsed by the findings of the precedent project “Security and Visegrad Countries: Proposals for Effective Cooperation” – we hold that strengthening regional security identity and creating common security strategy of the Visegrad countries should be among the aims of the four countries’ cooperation.
The project created a necessary prerequisite for this goal: creation of a regional group of experts gathering on regular basis and discussing the security and defence issues. Moreover, after agreement on the areas of expertise, the working groups were analyzing their respective issues with a view of development of common policy recommendations.
Besides the concrete outcome in form of these policy papers, the project filled the gap in the cooperation among our four countries by establishing a fully functional network of international security experts from governmental and nongovernmental sphere. Joint meetings of Slovak, Czech, Hungarian and Polish experts created not only the atmosphere of friendship and mutual understanding among the nations, but the real exchange of information and ideas in the field of security and defence, too.
