What is happening there and why it matters.
So it makes sense
Austria is the nearest western neighbour for Slovakia and Czechia — the border sits just outside Bratislava, which is why topics such as the bridge over the Morava, cross-border commuting or energy prices concern both countries at once. It is a neutral state outside NATO, which gives it a different position in defence debates, and a country that for years was among the Union’s most dependent on Russian gas. The summer of 2026 there was about a record deployment of army helicopters against wildfires and about legionella in Linz.
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