When Slovakia became one of the first NATO countries to provide military assistance to Ukraine, its defense minister was criticized by opposition parties. What he did not expect is that criminal cases for abuse of power, receiving bribes and state treason would begin to be carried out against him.
Five criminal cases were instituted against Yaroslav Nadia and the investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began a little more than a year after Prime Minister Robert Fitzo returned to fulfill his duties, starting the campaign to stop the supply of weapons to Kyiv.
Regardless of whether Nadi for help from Ukraine or not, his difficult situation is already sheds light on how leaders who break unity with the European Union and NATO and offer Vladimir Putin convenient allies in critical times, Bloomberg correspondents appear on the continent..
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Fit, which last month visited Putin in the Kremlin to discuss gas supplies, shows how quickly everything can change. He turned Slovakia from a stable ally of Ukraine into a country, often repeating the narrative of the Russian leader about the war in Ukraine.
He supports Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has long been the most effective disorganizer in the EU, constantly questioned the support of Ukraine from the EU and calls for the cessation of sanctions against Russia.
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" The EU, most likely, will more often be at a dead end, since it will try to overcome the disagreement of nationalists, ”says Gabor Deri, political analyst from Policy Solutions in Budapest.
In the West, Austria is ready to nominate the first ultra -right chancellor since the Second World War. Herbert Kikl clearly made it clear that the support of sanctions contradicts the traditional neutrality of the country.
In Croatia in the south, voters over this month re-elected President Zoran Milanovich, a former Social Democrat, who opposed Kyiv’s military assistance, imposed a veto to study Ukrainian officers and condemned the expansion of NATO as “deeply immoral”.
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Slovenia and Czech Republic are two more countries where candidates who are opposed to the establishment can come to power again, even if their views do not necessarily coincide with the position of the Kremlin.
" Serbia, who is not a member of the EU, where President Aleksandar Vucich was faced with mass protests due to the collapse of the roof at the railway station, can also become a learning history, ”the agency says in the agency.
But the regional shift was most clearly manifested this month in Slovakia. Fitly raised - and then rejected the possibility of the future outside the EU and NATO, saying that these institutions risk being in " A few days later, he accused the organizers of anti -government protests, as well as the media and the opposition to the organization of the "
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The escalation of the rhetoric of the Slovak prime minister reflects a deeper problem for the EU, when more and more officials defend Russian interests instead of the United European Union, according to Grigory Meshezhnikov, the head of the Institute of Public Affairs, based in Bratislava, the analytical center.
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What happens in Slovakia, where thousands of people go to mass protests? Whether the Slovaks will repeat their own \? The chances of Prime Minister Robert Fitzo to maintain power, the role of Moscow in this conflict and the prospects of the European course of the country are analyzed by Yakub Loginov in the article \?