Hungary cancels summit with Slovakia

After the right-wing extremist Slovak National Party, part of the government coalition in Bratislava, once again insulted the country's Hungarian neighbours, Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány cancelled a summit meeting with his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico. The Slovak daily Pravda writes that in truth Gyurcsány is grateful to the nationalists for providing him with an excuse for cancelling his trip to Bratislava. "On the one hand this is because his ruling coalition has collapsed, which has had the immediate effect of increasing the [Hungarian] nationalists' influence. But also because he has long since lost the upper hand in the confrontation with Fico. ... A visit to Bratislava would therefore just be a risk."

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