Last Week in Slovakia
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Last Week: A new man arrives to oversee the propagandists and disinformers
The Russian Embassy in Bratislava is about to get a new boss.
Last Week: Fico’s mid-term manifesto is a litany of resentments
Smer intends to leave PES before PES kicks Smer out.
Last Week: Things fall apart, but Fico feels emboldened
The opposition is experiencing serious wobbles, but so is the government.
Last Week: High-speed austerity, a constitutional shocker and yet another plagiarist
Friday’s vote produced mayhem in parliament and drove a new wedge into the opposition.
Last Week: Austerity package has Fico reviving an old sob story
But the public will be watching how much the government will save on itself.
Last Week: How to both-sides a military incursion against a NATO ally
Slovak government ministers can’t quite seem to decide whose side they’re on.
Last Week: Fico basked in the presence of dictators, then told Zelensky he ‘can’t do much’
Slovakia’s premier travelled from Beijing to Uzhhorod.
Last Week: Behind the scenes, a major struggle for Fico’s government
The Finance Ministry has missed its own deadline.
Last Week: Putin’s red-carpet treatment in Alaska sent a message to leaders like Robert Fico
They know this is their moment.
Last Week: Pressure grows on the health minister over ambulance tender car crash
Fico reprimands his Hlas minister - for bad communication.
Last Week: Once again, the government’s message is ‘trust nobody’
Not for the first time, Robert Fico attacks Slovakia’s Western partners.
Last Week: Fico the antagonist caters to his voters at home
Foreign partners have been receiving mixed messages from Slovakia, once again.
Last Week: Revenge-hungry Smer voters feast on donated ammunition case
Police came to question the former defence minister, but no one was home
Last Week: From Uzbekistan, with love
Slovakia’s Constitution may see more changes as Christian Democrats eye Fico’s offer.
Last Week: Of hired assassins, fake guesthouses and hybrid operations
Visitors from the European Parliament stir reactions among the ruling coalition.
Last Week: Central bank governor found guilty, but Fico accuses the judge
For the premier, personal disloyalty is worse than corruption.
Last Week: Smer throws a peculiar love-fest on the anniversary of Fico’s attack
At an event supposedly held to fight hate, a lot of blame was being cast around.
Last Week: Fico went to Moscow and he has a new talking point
The prime minister wants Russia’s friendship, but anyone who knows history knows what that means.
Last Week: In Slovakia, disinformation channels are tools of media capture
Robert Fico and his government are living in a symbiosis with them.
Last Week: Slovakia’s central bank governor still faces bribery case verdict
A judge decides that the amended Criminal Code does not give Peter Kažimír a pass.
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