Democratic Security
Interview
Hungary Wants a Bigger V4 – A CONVERSATION
25 June 2026
15 May 2025
Editor-in-Chief
Róbert Ondrejcsák offers a sharp assessment of shifting alliances, strategic confusion in Bratislava and what’s at stake for NATO unity.
In this conversation, Wojciech Przybylski speaks with Róbert Ondrejcsák – Executive Director of the European Leadership Network, former Slovak Ambassador to the UK and former Deputy Defence Minister of Slovakia – about the state of transatlantic relations, shifting security dynamics in Europe and the controversial foreign policy direction of Slovakia under Prime Minister Robert Fico.
From tensions over tariffs and military spending to strategic ambiguity towards Russia, the discussion explores how Europe is navigating uncertainty in its alliance with the United States and within its own ranks.
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Wojciech Przybylski is leading strategic foresight on EU affairs to improve democratic security of Poland in Europe. He organises EuropeFuture.Forum as the Editor of Visegrad Insight and the President of Res Publica Foundation. An advisory board member at LSE IDEAS Ratiu Forum, European Forum of New Ideas. A guest lecturer at the Foreign Service Institute for the U.S. Government, Warsaw University and CEU Democracy Institute. He co-authored among others a book 'Understanding Central Europe’, (Routledge 2017), and 'On the Edge. Poland' (Culturescapes 2019), 'Let's Agree on Poland' (Oxford University Press, 2025) and was widely published in the international press.
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