Michaela Terenzani

Michaela Terenzani

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Michaela Terenzani has been with The Slovak Spectator since 2007. She served as editor-in-chief in 2015 - 2023. She then moved on to serve as the leading editor of the foreign news desk of the Sme daily. She studied journalism in Trnava and in Aarhus, Denmark. In 2009, she received a joint MA degree in Euroculture from the University of Groningen and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She comments on events happening in Slovakia in her weekly newsletter, Last Week in Slovakia.

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PM Robert Fico met with EC President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels.
EU leaders get an early taste of Slovakia’s new foreign policy.
Rudolf Huliak
The incoming prime minister is readying to cosy up with autocrats.
Pellegrini, Fico and Danko (left to right) signign their memorandum of understanding under the painting showing Ludovit Stur.
It’s not as bad as it could have been. Or is it?
Peter Pellegrini on election night
Fico has one more week to form his government.
Journalists at the Smer headquarters in Bratislava
The international media is highlighting the resurgence of its populist former – and likely future – premier.
Robert Fico arrives to Smer headquarters on election night.
Election results will not dispel concerns about Slovakia’s foreign policy orientation.
Smer leader Robert Fico.
Foto
Exit polls have gone wrong again.
Peter Mišík
Interview with state secretary at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Peter Mišík.
Smer leader Robert Fico pictured in parliament on September 14, 2022.
The former prime minister’s approach to the media offers an answer to a question we often hear from abroad.
Peter Pellegrini
September polls show it will be painful.
Migrants near Veľký Krtíš.
With three weeks left, Slovakia is being re-acquainted with some unseemly tactics that have worked for politicians in the past.
Ivan Korčok
Amid the parliamentary election campaign, a former foreign minister says he will run for president.
Boris Kollár
And what message it sends to potential coalition partners.
SIS head Michal Aláč is one of the people charged in the Unravelling case.
This is also what the upcoming Slovak election will be about.
Smer last week was confronted with another challenge – the latest of many – in the realm of criminal prosecution. Police brought charges against the number nine candidate on Smer’s election slate, Tibor Gašpar.
A new criminal case involving a Smer candidate shows the two parties share common ground.
Igor Matovič is living up to his antagonist role in this normalcy-dominated campaign and his main campaign stunt so far has been that he brought dozens of Fiat 500 vehicles to Bardejov.
Normal is one word that stands out in this campaign.
The dog-whistle messaging of Repubilka’s leaders leaves observers in no doubt about their true identity: “We will put things in order”, says one of the billboards.
Slovak voters are unlikely to mimic the recent Spanish election scenario.
Peter Pellegrini
Post-election stalemate could be one outcome.
Speaker Boris Kollár.
Domestic violence may harm him more than his political failures.
President Zuzana Čaputová shortly before she announces that she will not run for office again in 2024.
Her decision not to run for re-election opens up several scenarios.
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