Petr Šabata
Petr Šabata

Autor je zástupcom šéfredaktora českého denníka Právo.

List of author's articles

PM Igor Matovič in Brussels.

All eyes are on Matovič. He is facing a major task

Slovakia needs to make big decisions. Can it become the European tiger again?

Gustav Husák served as the Secretary General of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) and president of Czechoslovakia in the seventies and eighties.

Husák has blood on his hands. Should the communist leader be the greatest Slovak?

The public broadcaster RTVS invited another communist to the programme The Greatest Slovak, this time to defend Gustáv Husák's legacy.

Czech PM Andrej Babiš.

We are sorry about Babiš. We aren't all like him

What has 2018 been like for Slovakia and the Czech Republic? Poor.

The winner, Miloš Zeman, is a cynical technologist of power, who does not shy away from lies, obscenity, and willfulness, including questioning constitutional rules.

Will Czechs be sorry?

Czechs have handed their country to Zeman and Babiš. The Czech train is now dashing along the road to who-knows-where.

L-R: President Zemand and PM Babiš form the fate of the Czech Republic but impact also that of Slovakia.

Why Slovaks should start fearing the Czechs

Slovakia will have to display unity and inventiveness for Brussels to recognise it among the cluster of “strange” democracies east of Germany

President Andrej Kiska

Kiska: On election night I was waiting for a miracle

We have to learn to fight extremism actively, not tiptoe around it, says President Andrej Kiska in an interview for the Sme daily and The Slovak Spectator. He also admits he is glad elections are over and that the rhetoric of politicians is more cultured.

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President Andrej Kiska.

Kiska: My relationship with Fico is "constructive"

To mark the occasion of President Andrej Kiska’s one year in office, The Slovak Spectator brings an excerpt from the interview he gave to the daily Sme in April.

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