V4 presidents meet at Lany chateau

The presidents of the Visegrad Group countries, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, met at a summit to debate the V4 cooperation at the Lany chateau presidential summer residence near Prague on Wednesday. Polish President Andrzej Duda and his Hungarian and Slovak counterparts, Janos Ader and Zuzana Caputova, gradually arrived in Lany where Czech President Milos Zeman welcomed them. They then attended a welcome ceremony with military honours and national anthems outside the chateau. The two-day summit will continue on Thursday when the Slovenian and Serbian presidents, Borut Pahor and Aleksandar Vucic, will join the V4 heads of state. Wednesday's talks are set to focus on V4 ambitions in a new balance of power in the EU after Brexit. They are also to seek opportunities for intensified cooperation and allies for particular goals.