The presidents of four central European countries known as the Visegrad Group: Hungarian president Pal Schmitt, Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski, Czech president Vaclav Klaus and Slovak president Ivan Gasparovic held a two-day summit timed to the creation of the alliance in Visegrad 20 years ago. According to Schmitt, Visegrad countries have been affected by the economic crisis less than the large European countRies. “In this region people are used to being thrifty, tightening their belts and t