Slovakia - Slovak Foreign Policy Association
Slovakia - Slovak Foreign Policy Association

Author(s): Alexander Duleba, Vladimír Bilčík
Subject(s): Politics, Governance, International relations/trade, Geopolitics
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: Slovakia; politics; foreign policy; association;
Summary/Abstract: The European Parliament (EP) elections took place less than two months after Slovakia’s presidential contest. The campaign before the EP elections contained little substantive conflict across political parties and the issue of candidates for Commission Presidency was not known or discussed outside narrow expert circles. With the televised campaign of the five candidates the election process was more visible but failed to mobilize the voters or garner the public support of political parties in Slovakia. Since the choice between Mr. Juncker and Mr. Schulz was not an election issue in Slovakia, voters here will not be concerned with which candidate gets nominated for the job of Commission President.

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