East EU Split on NATO Troops as 1968 Invasion Remembered
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The Czech Republic and Slovakia don’t need foreign NATO troops on their soil as sought by other east European nations at a time when the conflict in Ukraine deepens, according to their prime ministers.
Slovakia, which borders Ukraine, rejects any deployment on its territory because of memories of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion that crushed the “Prague Spring” loosening of restrictions on freedom, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said yesterday. The neighboring Czech Republic, Slovakia’s federal partner up to 1993, also doesn’t need external military presence, Premier Bohuslav Sobotka said June 3.