Jakub Filo
Jakub Filo

Deputy editor-in-chief of the Sme daily

Author also writes for: Facebook, Twitter

List of author's articles

From left to right: Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán, US President Donald Trump, and Slovak PM Robert Fico

A new world order? Fico and Trump’s national conservatism mirrors Nazism

The autocrat-oligarch alliance has found its ideological home.

PM Robert Fico and his cabinet.

Pulling an old trick, even PM Fico makes a play for snap elections

He's dissecting partners, warming up voters, disrupting opposition.

A polling station in Martin on June 8, 2024.

European election results: Main takeaways from Slovakia

Progressive Slovakia, a pro-European opposition party, won the elections, according to unofficial results.

Peter Pellegrini on election night

Fico is likely to return. But Pellegrini will decide who governs

Republika, Sme Rodina and Demokrati are out.

Interim Environment Minister Ján Budaj presents a climate bill on January 30, 2023.

Slovakia’s first climate bill lacks ambition, environmental NGOs claim

The Environment Ministry had worked on the bill for two years.

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Zuzana Čaputová

Zuzana Čaputová: I'm tired. But I still believe there's hope to change things for the better (interview)

I hope that the elections will be an opportunity for people to show that they have not given up on our country, says the president.

Counting the voting in the regional elections on October 29, 2022.

Despite frustration and fatigue, Slovakia has not given up on politics

What local election results say about the country.

Nine things each of us can do to make Slovakia a better country

Anger and lies dominate among part of the population. The rest of us need to actively defend society.

Forest fire in Mala Lodina near Kosice.

Remember these days the next time you go vote

Don't forget after the temperature drops.

Mariupol, Ukraine

War in Ukraine. Is Slovakia safe? (Q&A)

How the war will affect Slovakia.

Illustrative stock photo

Mandatory vaccination in compliance with the Constitution. Even Fico extended it in the past (Q&A)

The Sme daily prepares answers to questions on mandatory vaccination in Slovakia.

Eugen Gindl

Personality of the Velvet Revolution dies at age 77

He was also a journalist and writer.

Massive storms affected the Southern Moravia region in the southeast of the Czech Republic. The area along the Slovak border was hit the hardest.

This is what a crisis looks like

Weather extremes will cost us ever more resources that could otherwise be invested elsewhere.

Ľubica Karvašová has served as the diplomatic advisor on EU affairs to Igor Matovič as prime minister and now continues her mission under his successor, Eduard Heger.

The woman who negotiated additional Pfizer vaccines for Slovakia: In the EU, Sputnik is not taboo

Ľubica Karvašová is the EU affairs advisor to the Slovak prime minister.

We are in the middle of a crisis, acting like nothing's wrong

This is the last generation that can change course.

Igor Matovič
Maros Sefcovic and his wife Helena voted in the morning.
Map of Iceland with Sigur Rós stops

Icelandic musicians named their songs after GPS coordinates. Where do they lead?

Slovak journalist followed the Route One by Sigur Rós to find out.

President Andrej Kiska

Will Kiska run for president?

Media reports suggest that Andrej Kiska will not run again. How does the situation look one year ahead of presidential election?

Regional election 2017

A mere 875 votes decided the election in Košice

Some other interesting figures arising from the election: lowest turnout in the Nitra Region, only 24.7 percent, highest in the Banská Bystrica Region – 40.3 percent.

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