Hungary, Serbia, & Slovakia: A New Central European Integration Platform?
Andrew Korybko
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The possibility exists, but it should be centered on enduring economic interests that are less likely than political and security ones to shift with a change in government.
Chairman of the Committee on the Diaspora and Serbs in the Region Dragan Stanojevic told Izvestia late last month that Serbia wants to ally with Hungary and Slovakia, which preceded the signing of a new military cooperation pact between Belgrade and Budapest in early April.
This analysis here argues that any Hungarian-Serbian alliance of the sort that President Aleksandar Vucic proclaimed is in the works would have very real limits since Hungary is unlikely to go to war with Croatia in defense of Serbia.
The same holds true for Slovakia if it signs a similar pact with Serbia, but the trilateral convergence between them and Hungary could set the basis for a new Central European integration platform. Before elaborating on its contours, a few words will be shared about why there’s even an interest in this.
The most effective regional integration platform by far is the Visegrad Group comprised of Hungary, Slovakia, Czechia, and Poland, but internal disputes over the Ukrainian conflict rendered it dysfunctional.