“The Visegrad countries know better than most that security, whether military, economic, human or otherwise, can never be taken for granted,” said U.S. Ambassador Colleen Bell in her opening remarks at the roundtable discussion “Security Cooperation in the Visegrad Group – Regional Challenges and Initiatives,” co-hosted by the U.S. Embassy and CEU’s Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) on April 23. The Visegrad group, known as V4, is made up of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.

The present crisis is as serious as the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, said Professor Richard Sakwa, keynote speaker at the Russia in Global Politics - Driving Values and Interests conference. Co-hosted by CEU’s Center for EU Enlargement Studies (CENS) and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest, the April 20 event was part of CEU’s Frontiers of Democracy series.