Visegrad four voice their support for Croatia’s EU membership bid

Meanwhile, the Czech, Polish, Slovak and Hungarian prime ministers said that they would support Croatia’s bid to join the EU at a meeting in Prague on Monday. Czech prime minister Mirek Topolánek said that he did not want Croatia to become a ‘victim’ of the confusion that the EU has been thrown into after Irish voters rejected the Lisbon Treaty last Thursday. Mr Topolánek’s sentiments were echoed by Polish premier Donald Tusk, who said that the so-called ‘Visegrad four’ (Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) should continue to strive towards the enlargement of the EU, even after the Irish vote.