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Last Week: Pressure grows on the health minister over ambulance tender car crash
Fico reprimands his Hlas minister - for bad communication.
Last Week: Once again, the government’s message is ‘trust nobody’
Not for the first time, Robert Fico attacks Slovakia’s Western partners.
Last Week: Fico the antagonist caters to his voters at home
Foreign partners have been receiving mixed messages from Slovakia, once again.
Saying one thing at home and another abroad is a risky game, warns British diplomat
Nigel Baker, the departing ambassador to Slovakia, says the country’s top officials must realise that “words do matter” – and the West is listening.
Last Week: Revenge-hungry Smer voters feast on donated ammunition case
Police came to question the former defence minister, but no one was home
Last Week: From Uzbekistan, with love
Slovakia’s Constitution may see more changes as Christian Democrats eye Fico’s offer.
Last Week: Of hired assassins, fake guesthouses and hybrid operations
Visitors from the European Parliament stir reactions among the ruling coalition.
Last Week: Central bank governor found guilty, but Fico accuses the judge
For the premier, personal disloyalty is worse than corruption.
The disinformation scene has become a tool of media capture
Take over regulators, capture public media, and label critical journalists foreign agents — classic tactics to kill press freedom.
Last Week: Smer throws a peculiar love-fest on the anniversary of Fico’s attack
At an event supposedly held to fight hate, a lot of blame was being cast around.
Last Week: Fico went to Moscow and he has a new talking point
The prime minister wants Russia’s friendship, but anyone who knows history knows what that means.
Last Week: In Slovakia, disinformation channels are tools of media capture
Robert Fico and his government are living in a symbiosis with them.
Last Week: Slovakia’s central bank governor still faces bribery case verdict
A judge decides that the amended Criminal Code does not give Peter Kažimír a pass.
Last Week: Fico erupts as ‘Purgatory’ case heads to court
His splenetic anger on this issue reveals where Smer’s priorities lie.
Last Week: And then they came for the NGOs
Fico’s government is set to implement another lesson from Putin’s playbook.
Last Week: As disease spreads, Fico no longer insists on a “different opinion”
The benefits of EU membership suddenly become apparent.
Last Week: Fico regains his strength. Or does he?
A closer look reveals the dark side of Fico’s deal with the rebels.
Last Week: Fico continues his peekaboo foreign-policy dance in Brussels
Outgoing ambassador warns: our European partners think we’re ‘total lunatics’.
Last Week: Why Trump’s treatment of Zelensky is bad news for Slovakia
Fico is apparently looking forward to a world in which strongmen dictate terms to smaller countries.
Last Week: ‘I told you so’, Fico proclaims after Trump-Putin chat
Amid a coalition crisis, Andrej Danko resorts to epistolary politics.
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