Geometrie centroeuropee

The Visegrad Group - Polish Geopolitical Axis
Simon Araloff, AIA European section, 27.02.2006
Fifteen years ago the "Visegrad Group" (or V4) association was perceived by its founders to be a completely natural necessity for that period. It was a natural reaction to the political and economic vacuum formed in the central part of Europe after the collapse of the Council of Economic Mutual Assistance and the Warsaw Treaty Organization. Also it was a completely necessary tool for a dialogue with NATO and the EU. The Soviet giant collapsed on the east, Germany was uniting in the West. And Berlin with Moscow under Gorbachev, as under Yeltsin, carried on an active dialogue, restoring what would become a decade later under Putin and Schroeder, a powerful geopolitical axis.
In this situation Poland, which was not invited to this association, and frankly was not really rushing to fraternize with the Germans and Russians, was a unique state suited for a role at the center of the creation of a completely different axis - the "north - south" axis, from Estonia in the north to Croatia and Slovenia in the south. The "Visegrad Group" was supposed to become the core of this new geopolitical axis around which Warsaw intended to build an alternative center of gravity on the European continent.