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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Viktor Orbán and Eduard Heger with the "updated" scarf.

Viktor and his amazing dreamscarf

Some jokes are more in good taste than others.

Helfried Carl

Democracy delivers, experience from local politics shows

Thirteen cities compete to become the European Capital of Democracy. People from Slovakia can now become jurors to choose the winner.

News digest: Doctors and ministers deadlocked as hospitals plan emergency measures

Slovaks speak English better than ever before. Bratislava mayoral candidate to be prosecuted over alleged bribery. Kia is to produce electric vehicles in Slovakia.

Resignation notices filed by hundreds of doctors in late September.

Slovak hospitals look set to relive the chaos of 2011

A mass exodus of doctors once seemed unlikely, but ten days before their resignations take effect, uncertainty reigns.

News digest: Doctors ready for a mass protest this week

Checks at the border with the Czech Republic likely to continue beyond December 13. Police detain a stalker who harassed VIPs in Bratislava. Remembering the best Slovak RAF pilot.

Bringing down the Iron Curtain in Devin near Bratislava, December 1989.

The gains of 1989 cannot be taken for granted

The language of its memories is velvety, but our non-violent revolution required real effort.

Karel Hirman

Economy Minister: Slovakia set to become major power exporter

Slovak energy mix needs to be as emission-free as possible, says Hirman.

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Archbishop Ján Orosch, walking in front of Bratislava Archbishop Stanislav Zvolenský.

The Catholic Church is still struggling to talk straight on LGBT+ issues

Slovakia’s Catholics are experiencing the aftershocks of Tepláreň.

Joint municipal and regional elections in Slovakia, October 29, 2022.

Municipal and regional governments passed the stress tests

After a litany of national crises, voters backed the local incumbents.

Your vote counts. This Saturday you get several votes

Foreigners living in Slovakia have a rare chance to influence the direction of their town, and the country, this coming weekend.

March in support of LGBT+ community in Bratislava on Friday, October 14, 2022.

Stop speaking Latin: ‘Status quo’ is nothing more than the absence of rights

LGBT+ people in Slovakia are horrified, but not surprised.

March in support of LGBT+ community in Bratislava on Friday, October 14, 2022.

Years of LGBT+ intolerance in Slovakia culminate in two killings

Thousands marched in Bratislava in support of the LGBT+ community, laying the blame for the killings at the feet of the country's politicians.

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Dušan Dědeček runs from journalists in front of the courthouse. The judge decided he would be prosecuted at large.

Drunk driver prosecuted at large causes outrage among Slovaks

The case shows once again just how little people trust the courts in Slovakia.

Igor Matovič in parliament
Igor Matovič speaks to MPs before the no confidence vote.

Matovič remains minister - at least until Tuesday

OĽaNO leader attacks president and journalists in speech to MPs.

Economy Minister Karel Hirman (right) and PM Eduard Heger in parliament.

Keeping the lights on has become a political goal

Government says ‘don’t panic’, but people in Slovakia have no idea how much they will pay for electricity and gas this winter.

News digest: Traditional urban market takes place in the capital on Saturday

A major production company announces lay-offs, well water levels are down following recent droughts, and the official benefits of drinking burčiak – in moderation.

News digest: Matovič still far from safe in his ministerial seat

Omicron boosters now available. Slovakia first in the EU to offer a cross-border European pension product. Archaeologists uncover possible remains of a cult murder.

Sme Rodina leader Boris Kollár (left), OĽaNO leader Igor Matovič (right) and PM Eduard Heger of OĽaNO in parliament on September 14, 2022

Four is better than three

Now minus one coalition party, Heger discovers that ruling the country without a parliamentary majority will take work.

Richard Sulik (left) and his fellow SaS ministers have filed resignations as ministers of the cabinet of Eduard Heger (right).

Slovakia’s coalition concocts a novel, and peculiar, governing mix

But who exactly will be responsible for the performance of the new ministers?

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