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C. With a population of about 450,000 people, Bratislava is one of the smaller capitals of Europe but still is Slovakia’s largest city. The nation has a population of 5.4 million.
B. Daphne Caruana Galizia was investigating Malta’s links to offshore tax havens when the car she was driving exploded. Malta is an independent nation. Corsica is part of France; Rhodes is part of Greece; and Sicily is part of Italy.
D. The slain journalist linked a Mafia figure and government officials to an alleged scheme to embezzle European Union funds meant to bolster agriculture in Slovakia. The nation uses the euro as its currency and is part of the NATO military alliance.
A. After the end of Czechoslovakia’s Communist regime, Czech and Slovak leaders negotiated a peaceful split in the what was called the Velvet Divorce that created the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Slovakia has remained a close partner with the Czech Republic.