“The adoption of the Multiannual Financial Framework might prove to be problematic. The V4 may have many things in common, but they might not find a common ground when it comes to conditional spending of the European budget,” said Vít Dostal, a research director at Prague-based think tank AMO.

“Their (V4) cooperation could crash on the issue of the rule of law and spending control – it is without doubt that Orbán uses European funds to gain support of Hungarian oligarchs. In the event of establishing some kind of a control, the V4 might not be capable of working together,” Dostal said.