Slovakia is almost ready for its EU close-up, but not everyone in Brussels is confident the country can handle the starring role it will have in driving the union’s political agenda for the second half of the year.
It won’t be the first member of its class of mostly small, Eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 to hold the rotating Council presidency. But Slovakia, which has been a country only since 1993, may be the one with the most to prove in the role — especially after positioning itself in opposition to key European policies from migration to …read more
Source: European Voice
