Visegrad Group in September 2026: the most important developments in politics
In September 2026 Poland dominated Visegrad Group politics through its response to Russia. After a Russian drone hit a train near the Ukraine-Poland border on September 14, the Polish government called for doubled support to Kyiv, and a Polish minister proposed NATO drills near Kaliningrad. On September 15 Russian official Nikolai Patrushev said Poland could cease to exist as a state within two to three days if it entered a conflict with Russia. On September 23 Radosław Sikorski told Sergei Lavrov at the UN: "tell your boss: enough is enough." President Karol Nawrocki floated a "Fort Trump" US military base, while Sikorski spoke critically about it. Donald Tusk and Nawrocki marked the outbreak of the Second World War on September 1 with separate messages, and Tusk rebuked Nawrocki over a statement about giving up territory.
Hungary was the second theme. Prosecutors pursued legal action against Viktor Orbán and ministers from his earlier governments, who rejected the cases as politically motivated, and on September 28 parliament lifted their immunity. A corruption arrest followed on September 29. The government abolished political foundations created in the Orbán era, proposed laws to roll back rules on LGBTQ+ content after an EU court ruling, and expelled ten Russian embassy employees on September 8, drawing a Russian threat of retaliation. Hungary blocked two EU accession clusters for Ukraine for the third time, demanding guarantees for the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia, and declined to join the Carpathian Eight initiative.
Slovakia and the Czech Republic followed. Robert Fico reacted sharply to a further Ukrainian complaint on September 2 and warned on September 18 that Europe stood near a wider conflict. Andrej Babiš reiterated the importance of NATO while rejecting calls to raise defence spending and met Giorgia Meloni in Prague on September 29, where they agreed on migration policy. A Visegrad Group summit took place in Hungary on September 15.
by WorldBrief & Maksim Micheliov | AI-generated summary
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