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Shaping the Debate: How to Secure Our Democracies from Malign Interference
10 December 2024
21 December 2023
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico again demonstrates the ability to combine anti-Western rhetoric for domestic consumption with accommodating EU partners on key issues such as Ukraine, as he pursues to position Slovakia to benefit from any geopolitical scenarios.
Two months after the Slovak elections held at the end of September, the new Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár sat down for an interview with the editor of a pro-Kremlin portal to convince him that Slovak foreign policy is completely consistent in its actions with what the Prime Minister Robert Fico’s Smer party said in the campaign.
However, a different assurance was given in another forum. The head of the Slovak parliament, Peter Pellegrini, asked the Czech host during his visit to wait for action in real politics and not rely on “some image that is being created about Slovakia”.