PILLAR VISEGRAD WORKING GROUP

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PILLAR-VISEGRAD WORKING GROUP
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The first stageVisegrad Club

• 2003 The foundation of the Visegrad Club
• informal, non-legal institution
• forum for the researchers dealing with the
  Visegrad-region
• irregular meetings

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The second stageVisegrad Salons

• 2004
• Annual agenda
• Arrangement of discussion-meetings (called
  Salon)
• several occasions in a semester
• held in the Slovak Institut Budapest

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The second stageVisegrad Salons

• Topics on the Visegrad Salons (2004)
• Hungarian-Slovak common past
• Csaba Kiss Gy., István Kafer, Karol Wlachovsky
• Economic regions in the Carpathian-basin
• András Blahó (Corvinus Uni.), MESA 10,
  MOL-representatives

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The second stageVisegrad Salons

• Topics on the Visegrad Salons (2004 Autumn)
• Talk with Juraj Migas, the newly appointed Slovak
  Ambassador in Budapest

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The second stageVisegrad Salons

• Topics on the Visegrad Salons (2004, 2005)
• Letters from Bártfa - Introduction of the the
  book written by József Dessewffy (XIX. Century)
• How were and how are the Tatras -
• Photo gallery
• Talking with Rudolf Chmel, cultural minister of
  the Slovak Republic

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The second stageVisegrad Salons

• Topics on the Visegrad Salons (2005)
• Croatia towards the EU (running)
• lecturers from László Teleki Institute
• Planned (2005 May) The reveal of past in
  Slovakia and Hungary (Public discussion on the
  issue of communist secret agents)

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The third stageVisegrad Workgroup

• Merge into the Pillar Foundation, as its
  autonomous part. Objectives
• Attempt to become a legally recognized
  organization
• Assure the fluent and sustainable functioning of
  the Salons
• Establish connection with foreign organizations
• Ability of applying for grants
• Widening the range of the active and passive
  (attendees) participants

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The third stageVisegrad Workgroup

• An important connection in Hungary
• Reinventing Central-Europe initiative
• www.talaljuk-ki.hu
• articles and debates on Central-Europe
• aims to involve partners (readers and writers)
  from the V4-countries
• a possible virtual meeting point for the
  partner-organizations of the Visegrad
  Association?