
Slovakia Is Next on the Fiscal Cutting Board
Slovakia faces the same budget dilemma as Germany. Whether Prime Minister Fico will match Chancellor Merz’s bold move to announce an end to the welfare state remains to be seen.

Slovakia faces the same budget dilemma as Germany. Whether Prime Minister Fico will match Chancellor Merz’s bold move to announce an end to the welfare state remains to be seen.

The pipeline bombings were intended to pressure Budapest over stalled EU talks. Now Kyiv downplays the risk—while attacking a country supplying nearly half of its imported electricity.

Warsaw insists that Kyiv must “come to terms” with the 1943 massacre of around 100,000 Poles in Volhynia by Ukrainian nationalists.

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has questioned why the EU has not upheld its commitment to protect energy security.

The Ukrainian foreign minister’s unhelpful lecturing on social media has upped tensions.

Brussels is engaged in “increasingly aggressive attempts at destabilization, regime change, and external intervention” against the patriotic governments of Central Europe, Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó said.

Eurosceptic forces are on the rise, and could form a coalition after the October elections.

Within two years, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary will all be led by sovereigntist governments, and together will be able to block “Ukraine budget,” the Hungarian PM predicted.

Slovak PM Robert Fico claims the British Foreign Office backed anti-government activists via a London media agency

The statement was signed by the top diplomats of 20 EU member states, including the UK, France, and Italy, along with their counterparts from Australia, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand.