Last Week in Slovakia

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The new Investment Minister Samuel Migaľ arrives at his first cabinet meeting on March 21, 2025.

Last Week: Fico regains his strength. Or does he? 

A closer look reveals the dark side of Fico’s deal with the rebels.

PM Robert Fico

Last Week: Fico continues his peekaboo foreign-policy dance in Brussels

Outgoing ambassador warns: our European partners think we’re ‘total lunatics’.

Last Week: Why Trump’s treatment of Zelensky is bad news for Slovakia 

Fico is apparently looking forward to a world in which strongmen dictate terms to smaller countries. 

Robert Fico

Last Week: ‘I told you so’, Fico proclaims after Trump-Putin chat 

Amid a coalition crisis, Andrej Danko resorts to epistolary politics. 

Daniel Bombic (right) with his attorney David Lindtner.

Last Week: Much ado about one far-right extremist

The ruling Smer party has disturbing links to the indicted neo-Nazi.

Robert Fico shows the man he believes to be behind a coup that he's been talking about for over a week.

Last Week: Fico compares himself to Georgia’s pro-Russian government

Slovakia’s claims of a foreign-backed ‘coup’ plot prompted a response from Ukraine’s military intelligence agency.

Slovakia is Europe protest in Bratislava, January 24, 2025.

Last Week:  How Fico tried to scare people out of protesting – and failed

Meanwhile, his ruling coalition is continuing to disintegrate. 

Michal Simecka and Volodymyr Zelenskyj met in Kyiv

Last Week: Fico says leaving the EU should be an option

Slovakia is mentally split between two worlds. 

Robert Fico speaks during a press conference at the Slovak Representation in Brussels on Jan. 9, 2025.

Last Week: Slovakia has suffered a major attack on its critical infrastructure 

Fico is trying to turn attention to gas supplies just as the state is struggling to cope with a devastating cyberattack on the land registry.

Robert Fico on a video that appears to have been shot in Vietnam.

Last Week: Fico goes on a diplomatic adventure

It may end in disaster for Slovakia.

Robert Fico in Kremlin, waiting to meet Vladimir Putin on his own.

Preserve and persevere. Slovak journalists reflect on 2024

Fico’s trip to Moscow suggests we should expect more, and worse.

Robert Fico and Andrej Danko in parliament

Last Week: The governing coalition ends the year looking decidedly wobbly

Andrej Danko is spouting conspiracy theories about a coalition partner.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (l) met his Slovak counterpart, Juraj Blanár, on December 5 in Malta.

Last Week: How the Russians played the Slovak foreign minister

Numerous Slovak politicians are planning to visit Moscow next year, while offering threadbare justifications – or none at all.

Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer).

Last Week: We cannot go on like this for long, Fico admits

Early elections are mentioned following disarray in parliament.

Mayor of Smilno Vladimír Baran (l) and former MP Anton Korba (c) donate funds to Russia.
A gathering in Bratislava's SNP Square on November 17, 2024, to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.

Last Week: Remembering 1989 in an increasingly violent world

It's been 35 years since the non-violent November revolution.

Donald Trump
Hlas leader and presidential candidate Peter Pellegrini and former Czech PM Andrej Babiš meet ahead of the second round of the Slovak presidential election in Bratislava on April 3, 2024.

Last Week: Slovak government cuts a deal with Babiš, whitewashing history

Interior Ministry plays politics with Czechoslovakia’s secret-police past.

Robert Fico

Last Week: The investigation of assassination attempt is testing the integrity of the system

The prime minister has his version of the story, but the investigation is telling a different one.

Billboard of the Creative Society sect in Bratislava-Petržalka.

Last Week: A Czech journalist, a Slovak prosecutor and a sect from Ukraine

A peculiar criminal case shows what happens when a country fails to counter hybrid threats.

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