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Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister has raised the prospect of his country leaving the European Union and Nato, arguing that world events could consign them to the “history books”.

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Slovakia’s prime minister raised the possibility of a future outside the European Union and NATO as he said rapidly evolving global developments risk consigning both institutions to the “history books ...

adding that just as the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet-dominated military alliance, “collapsed within a year, world events can send the EU and Nato to history books”. There are low levels of public ...