97 Juraj Marušiak Slovak Presidency – Second Breath of Visegrad? As for Slovakia’s perspective, the most dominant role was played by the Visegrad Four (V4) when speaking about the numerous international structures aimed at supporting the cooperation in the region of Central Europe. Moreover, the Regional Partnership played an important role as well and its work marked the close cooperation of V4 states with Slovenia. Compared to previous years, a substantially less important role was played by the Central European Initiative (CEI) partially due to the indistinctive activity of the Albanian presidency. Main Trends in Visegrad Cooperation For Slovakia, the most important moment was taking over the V4 Presidency from Hungary in the second half of 2006 for the period of one year. At the same time, 2006 Visegrad got the opportunity to review 15 years of its existence and to look for new forms of action. Visegrad confirmed its role as a consulting mechanism within the EU framework. Similarly to the previous year, in 2006 the most pressing issues on the V4 agenda were those connected to the deepening of the integration of its member states in the EU as well as regional priorities such as the formulation of a common policy toward the states of Eastern Europe, predominantly towards Ukraine and Belarus. Cooperation between the V4 and Ukraine has been developing Juraj Marušiak works at the Institute of Political Science of Slovak Academy of Science (polimars@savba.sk).