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CEI is the abbreviation of Central European Initiative. This international cooperation of at present 16 countries was founded in 1991/92 as a successor of the Pentagonale group 1 .

The cultural and scientific cooperative began with Austria, Italy, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Poland. Later 10 other countries joined, reaching from Croatia and Slovenia up to Romania and Ukraina.

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2 Notes

  1. Pentagonale was the pentagonThis is an article about the geometrical shape. See The Pentagon for an article about the building near Washington, DC. See also: Pentagon (disambiguation). In geometry, a pentagon is any five-sided polygon. However, the term is commonly used to mean a re of five countries: Austria, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Yugoslavia. It was created by the addition of Poland to the Alps-Adriatic Workgroup or Quadragonale. By extension, CEI was initially referred to as the Hexagonale because it had six members (Czechoslovakia was added).
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