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Last Week: Every day will be a black day for the public-service broadcaster
The law to dissolve RTVS has yet to clear parliament but its fate appears to be sealed.
Last Week: No bullets for Ukraine? Watch us try, say people of Slovakia
Ordinary Slovaks join Czech initiative and put their money where their mouth is.
Last Week: Fico does right by Ukraine, for once
Don’t expect the shift in rhetoric to last.
Last Week: And then they took the Presidential Palace
Peter Pellegrini will be the next president.
Last Week: Pellegrini’s “peace”-driven campaign falls apart ahead of round two
Only a couple of days left to campaign.
What to expect from the Korčok vs. Pellegrini duel
The stakes remain high in this presidential election.
Last Week: With Fico or against Fico? Slovakia is about to vote for its next president
This presidential election is about checks and balances.
Last Week: How much hate can we take?
Prominent journalist steps back, citing online and real-life attacks.
Last Week: Fico offers cold comfort to Ukraine, two years into Russia’s aggression
The prime minister denies that Slovakia has territorial claims on Ukraine, but still talks of ‘neo-Nazis’.
Last Week: Rule of law still a burning question as coalition drops another bomb
Smer names its nominee for secret service director, and it’s a name observers feared.
Why are you helping rapists? Fico’s government faces some awkward questions
The widely opposed rule-of-law changes pass, and a rearguard defence begins.
Last Week: Passage of Fico’s legal changes is now imminent
Shortening the statute of limitations for white-collar crimes will have immediate, irreparable effects.
Last Week: What is the ‘new pragmatism’ in Slovak foreign policy about?
Ukraine’s prime minister coined the term after meeting Robert Fico.
Last Week: Fico says no to Ukraine in NATO
Slovak PM feels “doomed to cooperation” with his Hungarian counterpart.
Can the protests stop Fico?
And if not, what is the point?
Who wants to be president?
Pellegrini has two big decisions to announce, but he is taking his time.
‘The memory of a fish in a bowl’: Slovak journalists reflect on a ‘bitter’ year
Those who covered the murder of Ján Kuciak wonder why it already means so little to voters.
Fico’s plan to end the “Special” attracts protests in Brussels and at home
Smer ignores the European Commission’s request to put the legislation on hold.
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.
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.
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- News digest: 350 brown bears to be culled as Slovakia declares emergency
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- Then … Now
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