WARSAW, June 26 (Reuters) -Central Europe's currencies slipped on Wednesday, led lower by the Czech crown a day ahead of the Czech central bank decision on interest rates, as a firming dollar and risk-off sentiment weigh on them.

A higher U.S. interest rate environment, with more hawkish comments from the Federal Reserve officials on Tuesday, supports the dollar, pressuring emerging market assets.

"EUR/USD has reverted back to 1.070 after some signs of relief for CEE. Moreover, sentiment also dropped and turned a bit more risk-off again, making it complicated for the region," ING analysts wrote in a note, adding they saw few local positives in the coming days.

The Czech crown traded 0.3% lower against the euro at 24.8880, hovering off the previous week's lows, to which it pulled back from a five month high hit in early June.

Investors are looking towards Thursday's rate decision at which it could be a close call between whether the bank maintains or slows its rate-cutting pace.

"Clearly 25bp or 50bp (cut) is on the table. The main variable here seems to be EUR/CZK given that the rest of the picture has been a given for some time," ING analysts wrote.

"The dynamics of CZK depreciation over the past week show the market's sensitivity to the decision itself and reduce the chances of a 50bp rate cut tomorrow in our view. On the other hand, the strengthening CZK may in turn reassure the board and clearly increases the chance of a 50bp move."

The Hungarian forint EURHUF= eased 0.1% to 396.15 per euro, trading within its range of the past two weeks to which it slipped from a nearly four-month high hit in late May.

"The strengthening of the dollar was not good for the forint, it reversed the (forint's) strengthening seen on Monday," MBH Bank wrote in a note.

The Polish zloty EURPLN= meanwhile was flat at 4.3015 per euro.

"The zloty has seen several days of correcting losses suffered after the European Parliament elections," Alior Bank analysts wrote in a note.

"Yesterday, the first signals appeared that the dynamic phase of correction is already behind us and with the dollar rebounding, we can observe an attempt to stabilise EUR-PLN around 4.30."

Reporting by Karol Badohal in Warsaw, Jason Hovet in Prague and Boldizsar Gyori in Budapest; Editing by Alison Williams

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