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Photo: Then Slovakian Prime Minister, Robert Fico, attends a summit in Brussels. Credit: European Council

Senior pro-Russian Faces Criminal Charges as Slovakia Swings Decisively Towards NATO

April 29, 2022
By James Thomson

The government in Bratislava is winning plaudits from Ukraine and alliance allies for its tough stand against Russia’s aggression.

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Photo: A Slovak soldier with Stefanik Company charges through smoke during an exercise in eastern Latvia. Stefanik Company, a mechanized infantry unit currently based in Ādaži, Latvia, is Slovakia’s first contribution to NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence in Eastern Europe. Credit: NATO

NATO Deploys to a Hesitant Slovakia

March 11, 2022
By James Thomson

The war in Ukraine has prompted Slovaks to reconsider their previously lukewarm stance towards the alliance

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Photo: Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico addresses a news conference after a European Union leaders extraordinary summit on the migrant crisis in Brussels, Belgium September 24, 2015. Credit: REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Slovakia: Unhappily Into NATO’s Frontline

February 10, 2022
By James Thomson

The country’s anti-American opposition is exploiting a strategic mess that it helped to create.

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European Council Visegrad Meeting. From left to right: Eduard HEGER (Slovak Prime Minister, Slovakia), Andrej BABIŠ (Czech Prime Minister, Czech Republic), Mateusz MORAWIECKI (Polish Prime Minister, Poland), Viktor ORBÁN (Hungarian Prime Minister, Hungary). Credit: European Union

Central Europe’s V4? More Like V2+V2

November 3, 2021
By Péter Krekó

Are the four Visegrád countries (the V4), Central Europe’s premier club, an illiberal island within the EU, or something more distinctive?

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Photo: Workers remove an advertisement showing German Chancellor Angela Merkel with a slogan that reads "Mother of Nation - Thanks For 16 Years of Hard Work" before the upcoming state elections in Hamburg, Germany September 24, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer

Central Europe Bids Farewell to Merkel’s Schnitzel Era

September 27, 2021
By Jiří Hošek

Whoever is Merkel’s successor, the new boss in Berlin is unlikely to be as indulgent toward the Visegrád group

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Photo: Anna Solvalag, aged 18, receives a Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at an NHS Vaccination Clinic at Tottenham Hotspur's stadium in north London. Sunday June 20, 2021. Credit: PA via Reuters

Time to Trumpet the West’s Vaccine Diplomacy

June 23, 2021
By Jake Morris and Mallie Kermiet

A serious humanitarian effort can now get underway, while highlighting Russia and China’s self-serving aid campaigns

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China Influence Monitor

Oscars Censored; Europe Stiffens; our Wolf Warrior winner

April 29, 2021
By Edward Lucas

In This Issue: China reacts to Chloe Zhao’s Oscars triumph, Europe makes China a priority, and a first time Wolf Warrior Winner

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Photo: Visegrad Group delivers specifics at Anniversary Summit. Credit: Prime Minister of Poland. Krystian Maj/KPRM

Covid Spats Reveal Central and Eastern Europe’s Political Outlines

April 20, 2021
By CEPA and Péter Krekó

The attitudes of Central-Eastern Europeans toward vaccines from the east are starkly different

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Photo: A man wearing a protective mask passes by a billboard depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Belgrade, Serbia, April 1, 2020. The text on the billboard reads "Thanks, brother Xi". Picture taken April 1, 2020. Credit: REUTERS/Djordje Kojadinovic

China’s Failures in CEE Open the Door for the U.S.

April 5, 2021
By Lauren Speranza and Candace Huntington

Central and Eastern Europe, once a frontier of China’s influence in the West, has begun to turn a cold shoulder to expansionism.

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Photo: A general view of the Slovak Presidential Palace ahead of the cabinet's inauguration, in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 21, 2020. Credit: REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa

Slovakia’s StratCom Success Story

February 9, 2021
By Katarína Klingová and CEPA

Slovakia’s successful strategic communications efforts show a hopeful way forward beyond the infodemic

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