The Washington Times

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia. — This “New Europe” capital on the banks of the Danube is rapidly emerging as a crossroads of Central and Eastern Europe. I first started to get the point as I was getting on a plane a week ago bound for Frankfurt, Germany, en route to a conference in Bratislava of prime ministers and NGOs, mainly from countries about to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union, on the subject of “Towards a Wider Europe.”

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