Voters of Sme rodina and OĽaNO agree most with the editorial interventions of the owners, followed closely by Smer. Nine percent of Slovaks also think that the government has the right to interfere in the public media, with the number of Boris Kollar's party voters as high as 14 percent.

At the summit, Slovakia wants to ensure that the temporary battle groups in the Alliance's eastern flank are transformed into long-term defence forces. Nearly 1 100 allied troops are deployed there. It also wants to confirm its commitment to invest two per cent of GDP in defence and even to surpass this level from next year.

While most of the Alliance would like to see the Finns and Swedes in NATO within "months", Turkish President Erdoğan is talking about "more than a year". Stockholm will therefore amend the anti-terrorism law and is also reviewing the embargo on arms exports to Turkey, which is exactly what Ankara expected. The Biden administration, in turn, has asked the US Congress to approve the sale of weapons and equipment for Turkey's fleet of US F-16s.

KERSTI KALJULAID says it is not difficult to get into high government positions because someone is a woman, but because these positions are few. "Today's female prime ministers and presidents put a full stop to discussions about whether women can do the job," she says. She openly says that she does not understand the feminist foreign policy, to which Germany and Sweden also subscribe.

For the first time in history, a Japanese prime minister is likely to attend the NATO summit scheduled for the end of June in Madrid. This is Tokyo's response to the heightened security concerns of the Japanese population about both Russia and China.