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Stay updated with expert insights on international trade, the Visegrad Four export landscape, and global economic trends. Our publications equip businesses, policymakers, and researchers across the Visegrad region with deeper understanding of the region’s opportunities and challenges in the global market.

Quarterly Insight Q4/2025

Quarterly Insight Q4/2025

This Quarterly Insight situates the V4 at the centre of a profound reconfiguration of Central Europe’s energy landscape, shaped by geopolitics, the green transition, and the collapse of traditional east–west gas flows. While all V4 countries remain highly import-dependent and natural gas continues to play a critical role in their energy mixes, divergent political approaches to Russian supplies coexist with shared structural realities, including low domestic production, substantial storage capacities, and increasing interconnectivity. The accelerating shift toward north–south corridors and expanded LNG access is gradually transforming the V4 from passive end-users into a potential regional hub for transit, storage, and energy trading within the EU system. Whether this transition evolves into a strategic opportunity or a long-term vulnerability will depend on how effectively the V4 leverages EU frameworks and addresses persistent internal fragmentation.

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Ensuring a Level Playing Field: Rebuilding Fair Competition and Strategic Competitiveness in the European E-commerce Market

Ensuring a Level Playing Field: Rebuilding Fair Competition and Strategic Competitiveness in the European E-commerce Market

The report analyzes how non-EU e-commerce platforms such as Temu and Shein gain rapid market share in Europe by exploiting regulatory loopholes, avoiding VAT and customs duties, and repeatedly violating EU consumer protection, product-safety, and data-privacy rules. These practices create structural distortions that disadvantage compliant European businesses—especially in the V4 region—while state-supported Chinese exporters further widen the competitive gap. The paper argues that urgent, coordinated EU action is needed to restore fair competition and safeguard Europe’s digital economy.

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Detroit Am Donau: Central Europe's Pivotal Role In A Geopolitical Auto Race

Detroit Am Donau: Central Europe's Pivotal Role In A Geopolitical Auto Race

Belonging to our Industry Insight Trends series, this report captures the rise of Central Europe’s V4 countries as a critical automotive hub producing over 3.6 million vehicles annually, and the strategic pressures driving the region to shift from contract manufacturing toward innovation. It highlights how the U.S. increasingly relies on V4 capabilities and why deeper transatlantic cooperation is becoming essential. You can read the full report below.

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V4 In Emerging Markets – A Wealth of Opportunity

V4 In Emerging Markets – A Wealth of Opportunity

Belonging to our Industry Insight Trends series, this report captures the pivotal opportunities and challenges facing the V4 region in emerging markets. It provides an overview of how the V4 countries are navigating trade uncertainty, rising protectionism, geopolitical tensions, and the drive to diversify economic and diplomatic engagement in Southeast Asia and South America. You can read the full report below.

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The Automotive Sector at the Crossroads

The Automotive Sector at the Crossroads

This report captures the turning point facing the automotive sector and offers an overview of how the V4 region is navigating the disruptive shift toward electromobility, evolving labor-market pressures, regulatory uncertainty, and the race to remain competitive in a rapidly changing global landscape.

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