Nearly 80 percent of Slovaks think that the European Union (EU) should create joint armed forces to protect the country from external threats. This stems from a representative survey conducted by the Focus agency for the European Commission Representation in Slovakia. According to the head of the EU representation in Slovakia, Ladislav Mika, this is a big paradox. "On one hand, there's a general debate to the effect that the [European] Union is interfering in everything and that it shouldn't. But when you ask what it should do, in every case a majority agreed that the EU should do something in that area," he stated, adding that he considers the high support for joint armed forces to be the most interesting element.
Zuzana Botiková, Photo: TASR
