Economy and Energy Minister István Kapitány said on social media that ways to mitigate high energy prices and strengthen security of supply were on the agenda of a meeting of his Visegrád Group peers in the Slovak capital, Bratislava on Monday. As the meeting of V4 energy ministers started, with the participation of Dan Jorgensen, […]

The heads of the foreign affairs and European affairs committees of Visegrád Group (V4) parliaments signed a joint agreement expressing their positions on the European Union's next seven-year framework budget, security policy, EU enlargement plans, and opportunities for expanding cooperation, the chair of Hungarian parliament's European affairs committee, Ildikó Sopov said on Tuesday, MTI reports. […]

On the 35th anniversary of the Visegrád Declaration, the heads of government of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia met at the Royal Palace in Gödöllő, east of Budapest, this week and relaunched the Visegrád Four (V4) partnership among the four countries. Following the Hungarian parliamentary elections in April 2026, with high-level political cooperation […]

Hungary ranks 19th globally in the use of artificial intelligence, according to a Microsoft survey covering 147 countries, and among the Visegrád countries, Hungary has the highest rate of artificial intelligence usage, MTI reports. According to a Microsoft announcement, 32.2% of the working-age population in Hungary used artificial intelligence in the first quarter of 2026, […]

When determining the sovereign ratings, the credit rating agencies also consider the World Bank’s World Governance Indicators (WGI), albeit with different weights. The WGI examines six institutional areas: freedom of speech and accountability, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and the development of corruption control. GKI Economic Research Institute examined how these […]