Orban’s Absence to Leave His Slovak Ally Reluctant to Defy Europe

Slovak leader Robert Fico has vowed to march ahead with an anti-European Union campaign if his close ally, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, is ousted from power on Sunday.

But with his country heavily dependent on EU aid and his own grip on power more tenuous than Orban’s, Slovakia’s prime minister will struggle to carry the mantle, according to people familiar with the matter. They declined to be named discussing private deliberations.