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Rober Fico says post-communist states are "more capable of reacting to crises and we tackle them with more common sense" that their Western counterparts (Photo: Consillium)

Ambivalent Slovakia prepares to take EU helm

Slovakia is preparing to take its first presidency of the EU Council with a promise to its partners to act as an honest broker, but at the same time assuring its domestic audience it will not back down on its hard-line stance.

It will formally succeed the Netherlands on 1 July, but a visit by the Slovak government to the college of EU commissioners on Wednesday (1 June) is the first event of the country's EU presidency.

“We want to lead a normal dialogue,” prime minister

Rober Fico says post-communist states are "more capable of reacting to crises and we tackle them with more common sense" that their Western counterparts (Photo: Consillium)

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