The ministers of foreign affairs of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine held a trilateral meeting in the southeastern Polish city of Lublin on July 28 to discuss regional cooperation (Gov.pl, July 28). To pursue such future development, the officials notably established the Lublin Triangle, a new political platform invoking the integrationist heritage of the 1569 Union of Lublin.
The recently established format is nothing unusual for Central/Eastern Europe; many similar multilateral platforms involving regional states already exist, including the Visegrad Four (V4), Bucharest Nine, Three Seas Initiative (3SI), Nordic-Baltic Eight and the Weimar Triangle. However, since these groupings are rarely institutionalized, their establishment and intensity of meetings telegraph the changing political priorities of the included countries and the general condition of their relations.