Babis meets V4 counterparts, Balkans leaders join in afterwards

Czech PM Andrej Babis had talks with his counterparts from the Visegrad Four (V4; Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) at a work meeting in Prague this morning, which was later joined by representatives of six Western Balkans countries. The main issues on the agenda of Babis's meeting with the prime ministers of Hungary, Viktor Orban, Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, and Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini, were the current European affairs such as the new European Commission lineup, the next budget framework and the approach to tackling the climate change, the Government Office said.