Challenges Convincing the World To Embrace Rules-Based Order – An Interview With Czech FM Lipavský

I would like to see Hungary realise that Russia poses a major security trap

6 April 2023

Marco Németh

Marcin Król Fellow

This week, the Czech and Slovak governments had a joint meeting in the Slovak city of Trenčín, where Visegrad Insight met with the Czech Foreign Minister to discuss the EU’s policy on Ukraine, Russian sanctions and international rules-based order.

Marco Németh sat down with Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský. Lipavský is a Czech politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic since December 2021 in Petr Fiala’s cabinet.

Marco Németh: Recently, the Czech presidency ended, which many experts rated positively. How do you feel about the difficulties that Europe will face in the upcoming months? What are the main issues we need to solve?

Jan Lipavský: It is Putin’s imperialism and his ambition to defeat Ukraine’s will to be a sovereign nation in its internationally recognised borders. And Putin’s war in Ukraine brings us many challenges which we face internally, … [such] as the huge wave of war refugees, high inflation and high energy prices.

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Marco Németh

Marcin Król Fellow

Marco is a Slovak journalist, focusing on EU policies, democracy, Central Europe and foreign affairs. He was the youngest and most passionate activist in the 2019 European elections. From 2020 he works with the Slovak newspaper Európske Noviny. When he was 15 years old he published his first book “Európa v Kocke” in which he explains how the EU works.

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