The Visegrad Group is unlikely to return as a single political voice of Central Europe. But after years of political freeze, it may still regain relevance as a practical format for issue-based cooperation — especially on cohesion policy, competitiveness and Ukraine-related coordination, while also opening space for closer work on defence industry and military mobility. In recent years, the Visegrad Group — Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland — has been put into a kind of political deep freeze.