Central European Mayors Sign ‘Pact Of Free Cities’
December 16, 2019
Four central European capitals, all at odds with their countries’ populist governments, signed a deal Monday in Budapest to seek more EU funding together to bypass their nations’ rulers.
The pro-European centrist mayors of Budapest, Bratislava, Prague and Warsaw — the capitals of the Visegrad countries Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland — signed what they called the “Pact of Free Cities”.