Slovakian PM: our vital interest is the EU, not Visegrad Group

Slovakian PM Robert Fico said that it’s in Bratislava interest to be a part of a deeply integrated core EU, not with the Visegrad Group. “The fundamentals of my policy are being close to the (EU) core, close to France, to Germany. I am very much interested in regional cooperation within the Visegrad Group but Slovakia's vital interest is the EU,” he explained, backtracking from his earlier Eurosceptic stance. Despite making common cause with other Visegrad states in refusing EU quotas on accepting migrants, Fico later made a compromise offer to accept 100 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy, thereby avoiding the legal action the EU instigated against Warsaw, Budapest, and Prague.