Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s sharp rebuke of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s proposal to suspend European Union funding to Slovakia, articulated on May 27, 2025, during a press conference in Armenia, underscores a deepening fault line within the EU’s political cohesion. Fico’s assertion that such threats are “absolutely unacceptable in modern Europe” and constitute an … Leggi tutto Geopolitical Tensions and Economic Leverage: The EU-Slovakia Dispute over Foreign Policy Alignment in 2025