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Miroslav Lajčák is a Slovak diplomat with more than 30 years of experience in international affairs. He served as Slovakia's Minister of Foreign and European Affairs across four terms and was President of the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly. He is best known for his work in the Western Balkans, where he organised the 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum on behalf of the EU and spent five years as EU Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue.
He now teaches at the European University Institute in Florence and writes on European foreign policy, diplomacy and international security.
Europe's debate about competitiveness has moved from seminar language into the centre of policy. Energy costs, industrial capacity, defence production, digital infrastructure and the reliability of critical supply chains are no longer treated as separate files. They are being read...
Diplomacy is often judged by political statements. In practice, much of Europe's stability now depends on quieter economic work: investment frameworks, energy
Europe has no shortage of diplomatic language. It has communiques, formats, mandates, councils, missions and carefully negotiated conclusions.
In June 2026, as European leaders gather in Athens to debate the future of transatlantic security, it is worth looking back two decades to a smaller but
For Miroslav, this question of credibility has been central to much of his work across European diplomacy:
Modern politics rewards visibility. It rewards instant reaction, public certainty and the ability to compress complicated issues into a phrase that can travel
Miroslav Lajčák and the Future of Multilateralism examines diplomacy and reforming global institutions amid rising tensions.
For senior European diplomats, few regions have offered a more sustained working environment than the Western Balkans. Three decades after the wars of Yugoslav succession, the area remains a working test of whether the European Union's tools of stabilisation, mediation and enlargement actually deliver durable political outcomes.
Miroslav Lajčák is a senior Slovak diplomat and international affairs leader with over 30 years of experience in European diplomacy, the United Nations, European Union, Western Balkans, multilateralism and dialogue.