The article’s primary goal is to identify the most critical factors that cause the low involvement of the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia in the Three Seas Initiative (3SI). The mentioned states (as the landlocked small ones) of Central Europe are not interested in other political projects apart from the Visegrad Group (V4) or smaller formats such as the Slavkov Triangle or Central 5. The above-mentioned regional cooperation projects will allow them to achieve their foreign policy goals. There is no need to commit resources to new ones. Therefore, so far, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary have been passive observers of the evaluation of the Three Seas Initiative. They did not present a list of serious connectivity projects, and the Czech Republic and Slovakia did not join the Three Seas Investment Fund (TSIF) established in 2019. An additional obstacle to greater involvement of the countries, as mentioned earlier in the Three Seas Initiative, is institutional conditions. Among Central European countries, the position of the President there is one of the weakest. In Hungary, the President is not even directly elected. The presidents in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia do not have any significant political ambitions. Therefore, they do not need to use the Three Seas Initiative to fight on the internal political scene.
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