Czech PM meets with Slovak opposition leader

Prime Minister Petr Fiala met with Slovak opposition leader Michal Šimečka at the Czech prime minister's official residence in Prague on Friday morning. Mr Šimečka, who is the leader of Slovakia's largest opposition party, Progressive Slovakia, related the message that Slovakia is more than just Prime Minister Fico and said that a large number of people in Slovakia have a pro-European and pro-Western mindset and want to help Ukraine. Relations between the two countries remain excellent, Mr Fiala wrote on social media site X after the meeting.

This meeting took place less than two days after the Czech government decided to suspend a planned joint consultation with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's cabinet over their differing views on the Ukraine war.