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.

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Robert Fico in Brussels.

Secret trip to Brussels as Fico starts making Slovakia his own again

Little has changed in Slovakia’s support for Ukraine, but major changes planned at home should ring alarm bells.

Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok in parliament.

Last Week: Opposition tries to sack the “minister of revenge”

The interior minister had barely started, and already he’s facing a no confidence vote.

Robert Fico at the Government Office.

Last Week: Fico names his enemies. Journalists are still top of the list

Officials in the new government want to limit critical media.

PM Robert Fico

Fico acted on his ‘no bullets to Ukraine’ claim last week

And Slovakia will get a say on Ukraine’s EU accession moves in December.

Sophia in 't Veld

Dutch MEP: I'm very fond of Slovakia, nothing the government does can change that

Sophia in 't Veld has been following the rule of law in Slovakia for five years and the latest steps of the government have her worried.

The department of the interior went to Hlas – but the new minister, Matúš Šutaj Eštok, has wasted no time in showing that he is perfectly aligned with Smer’s Robert Fico.

Move fast and break things: Interior minister treats the police like a start-up

Replacements in key police posts have already started against the backdrop of a battle for the southern border.

PM Robert Fico met with EC President Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels.

Fico goes to Brussels, and hears from the Kremlin

EU leaders get an early taste of Slovakia’s new foreign policy.

Rudolf Huliak

Huliak nomination delays Fico’s bid for premiership – for now

The incoming prime minister is readying to cosy up with autocrats.

Pellegrini, Fico and Danko (left to right) signing their memorandum of understanding under the painting of Ľudovít Štúr.

Ten (or more) things to know about the emerging Fico government

It’s not as bad as it could have been. Or is it?

Peter Pellegrini on election night
Journalists at the Smer headquarters in Bratislava

Election tested Slovakia; Fico could strain EU and NATO unity

The international media is highlighting the resurgence of its populist former – and likely future – premier.

Robert Fico arrives to Smer headquarters on election night.

Fico is on his way to becoming prime minister, again

Election results will not dispel concerns about Slovakia’s foreign policy orientation.

Smer leader Robert Fico.
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Peter Mišík

Deputy foreign minister: We no longer need to discuss Ukraine, we know it belongs to the EU

Interview with state secretary at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Peter Mišík.

Smer leader Robert Fico pictured in parliament on September 14, 2022.

Would a Fico election win really be so bad?

The former prime minister’s approach to the media offers an answer to a question we often hear from abroad.

Peter Pellegrini

A government without Smer is possible

September polls show it will be painful.

Migrants near Veľký Krtíš.

Migrants for Fico, “LGBTI” for Christian Democrats. The campaign is on

With three weeks left, Slovakia is being re-acquainted with some unseemly tactics that have worked for politicians in the past.

Ivan Korčok offers a worldview that almost exactly contrasts with the one peddled by Smer in its parliamentary campaign.

What to make of Korčok’s presidential bid

Amid the parliamentary election campaign, a former foreign minister says he will run for president.

Boris Kollár

What Sme Rodina leaves behind at the intelligence service

And what message it sends to potential coalition partners.

SIS head Michal Aláč is one of the people charged in the Unravelling case.

Top security officials charged in the middle of election campaign

This is also what the upcoming Slovak election will be about.

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