Slovakia’s prime minister is a harsh critic of Britain and of Brexit. This is understandable; however, a recent study suggests that he would be well-advised to pay more attention to his own country’s precarious affiliations to pan-European institutions.Slovakia currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, and it takes its job very seriously: Robert Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister, has led the other EU nations in warning the UK about the suffering it should expect after it leaves the Union.In a recent Financial Times interview, Fico vowed that the EU would make Brexit ‘very difficult for the UK, very difficult’. ‘The …read more
Source: Royal United Services Institute