Slavkov Declaration

[3] The name derives from the South Moravian town of Slavkov u Brna, in the German language historically called Austerlitz, which is known as the site of the Battle of the Three Emperors of 1805.

On 3 April 2014, the Czech President Miloš Zeman announced at a press conference in Ljubljana that Slovenia and Austria will also participate in the meetings of an enlarged Visegrád group in the future.

[5] However, the next day, Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs by his spokesman, Gábor Kaleta, stated that an expansion of the Visegrád Group is not planned, thus rejecting Zeman's offer to Slovenia and Austria.

On January 29, 2015, the Prime Minister of Czech Republic Bohuslav Sobotka and Slovakia Robert Fico and the Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann came together in Slavkov u Brna, Austerlitz near Brno.

[7] Petr Drulák, the deputy minister of the Czech Republic, emphasized that the Austerlitz framework was not a competitor, but a complement to the Visegrád group.