Michaela Terenzani
Michaela Terenzani
michaela.terenzani@spectator.sk

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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.

Author also writes for: michaela.terenzani@spectator.sk, Twitter

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PM Heger announced the end of the national state of emergency on Friday.

It’s official: the second wave in Slovakia is now over

National emergency ends after more than half a year. Crucial vaccination programme witnesses yet more changes.

Justice Minister Mária Kolíková (Za Ľudí) and Finance Minister Igor Matovič (OĽaNO) during the opposition-initiated parliamentary session on ousting Kolíková as minister.

A fresh start for the Heger cabinet amid same old coalition tensions

Heat but no light from Matovič over nebulous tax reform, Za Ľudí defends its justice minister.

PM Eduard Heger (right), Deputy PM Veronika Remišová (Za Ľudí) and Deputy PM Igor Matovič (OĽaNO).

News digest: Vaccination now available two weeks after surviving Covid

Heger cabinet gains parliament's approval. Ministry plans to involve general practitioners in Covid vaccination programme. President bestows award on members of armed forces.

PM Eduard Heger was vaccinated in Bratislava during the first weekend of May. He received the AstraZeneca vaccine.

What is the point of the current vaccination registration system?

Know-how acquired by people working with excluded Roma communities could help to get the rest of the country immunised quicker.

PM Heger, Defence Minister Naď and Foreign Minister Korčok (left to right) arrive to the press conference.

Heger cabinet rediscovers government’s lost compass

OĽaNO leader Igor Matovič had cast doubt on Slovakia’s loyalty to its allies, but the Heger cabinet uses an opportunity to do the right thing.

As of Monday, hairdressers are among the businesses allowed to open for clients after a four-month-long lockdown.

Test-obsessed Slovakia opens up, though most elderly are still not immunised

What does the government need to do to make this post-lockdown opening Slovakia’s last? Sputnik, still at the centre of attention, is not the answer.

"The online world is a fiction and I fear this fiction is now being served to children as the real world,” says psychiatrist Michal Patarák about children in pandemic spending most of their time at the computers.

We are serving fiction to children as if it was the real world

Top psychiatrist Michal Patarák talks about how the pandemic toll tests mental health.

Finance Minister Igor Matovič (OĽaNO) between his trips to Moscow and Budapest.

Matovič demonstrates how to dismantle everything in two days

OĽaNO politicians seem to think they are applying the highest political virtue. Could they be more wrong?

PM Igor Matovič talked about the purchase of 2 million Sputnik V vaccines in mid-February.

Matovič fell into a trap carefully staged by Russia

The former prime minister committed a diplomatic faux pas and disregarded the Slovak national interest, says foreign policy analyst Pavel Havlíček.

Slovakia received the first batch of Sputnik V vaccines on March 1.

UPDATED: Matovič says Russians want Sputnik V back, but door is still open

The former PM who now serves as finance minister is to visit Viktor Orbán today. Slovak Academy of Sciences says they tested the Russian vaccine per his health minister's request.

Igor Matovič

UPDATED: Finance Minister Matovič flew to Moscow for Sputnik negotiations

Russians want the vaccine back, citing contract violations.

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Speaker of Parliament Boris Kollár (Sme Rodina)

We will not be silent, helping professionals say after a recent anti-LGBTI vote

Psychologists, social workers and others condemn a recent parliamentary vote on a proposed change to the constitution to curb human rights.

President Zuzana Čaputová appoints the cabinet of Eduard Heger.

Heger will seem boring after Matovič. Thank heavens for that

The new prime minister could give Slovakia exactly what it needs right now.

PM Igor Matovič and his potential successor, Finance Minister Eduard Heger.

A straight swap resolves Slovakia’s scrapes – for now

Ordinary prime minister bestows forgiveness, Heger is to become prime minister, Sulik will cook for Matovič again.

SaS leader Richard Sulik (centre) says government reshuffles are necessary.

SaS withdraws from the coalition until Matovič quits

All ministers of the junior ruling coalition party have stepped down. They urge the prime minister to depart and make way for talks.

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Ivan Korčok handed in his resignation to President Zuzana Čaputová on March 25.

Korčok: Slovakia is on thin ice in foreign policy as well

The outgoing foreign affairs minister urged the government that will come to resist the urge to use foreign policy to score political points at home.

A street in the village of Varín in the north of central Slovakia bears the name of Jozef Tiso, the controversial President of the Slovak State during the Second World War

Slovakia can do better than Tiso

Why countries glorify war criminals – and what to do about it.

PM Igor Matovič said he was ready to step down, but only if his partners oblige to the conditions he laid out.

Slovak PM stages a pre-breakup festival of pettiness

Matovič says he is willing to leave the top job. But a look back at his government's first year shows he wants to take some of the best ministers down with him.

PM Igor Matovič

Matovič to quit as prime minister if partners fulfill conditions

He made the announcement on the first anniversary of his government.

Marek Krajčí (left) and Igor Matovič leave the Presidential Palace after Krajčí officially handed his resignation to the president.

Matovič-style political “innovation” keeps the coalition off-balance

Health minister belatedly steps down, but it may not be enough to avoid reshuffle – or collapse.

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