Peter Dlhopolec
Peter Dlhopolec
peter.dlhopolec@spectator.sk

editor-in-chief

Peter Dlhopolec is the editor-in-chief of The Slovak Spectator. He oversees The Spectator’s editorial coverage and newsroom.

Before being appointed to the top job in February 2023, he had worked as a staff writer, a social media manager, and a podcaster for The Slovak Spectator since 2017.

He covers different topics, ranging from travel to politics.

He was born in Zvolen and received two bachelor’s degrees from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Trnava for European politics and mass media studies. During his studies, he spent some time in Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Ireland.

Discovering new music is his big passion. Some of his free time is spent doing sports and litter picking.

Author also writes for: peter.dlhopolec@spectator.sk, Facebook, Twitter

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PM Robert Fico

News digest: Brussels ‘in for a fun time’, Fico says ahead of EU talks

New Dutch ambassador to Slovakia, Matovič’s “movie nights”, and reconstruction work underway beneath the UFO restaurant.

News digest: Fico takes on Slovakia’s “biggest problem” – or so he says

A taxi driver attacked by three women and a man with a shovel – plus a message from the Lutheran Church to politicians.

News digest: Slovakia votes for Ukraine at UN, far-right SNS demands apology 

The gospel according to the defence minister – and what Fico’s up to beyond the coalition crisis.

PM Robert Fico and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte

News digest: Fico snubs NATO chief, heads to right-wing event in US instead

People will once again gather in squares to remember the murdered journalist.

In the photo, from left: President of Slovakia Peter Pellegrini, Hlas party leader and Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok, Smer party leader and Prime Minister Robert Fico, and Slovak National Party (SNS) leader and Deputy Speaker of Parliament Andrej Danko during a press conference following a roundtable meeting of political parties on Slovakia’s foreign policy orientation, organised by the head of state at the Presidential Palace in Bratislava on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.

News digest: Fico’s deadline passes, but his partners come up empty

Foreign minister finally admits his mistake, Greta Thunberg in Slovakia, and friction in the opposition.

Director of Studia Academica Slovaca, Michaela Mošaťová, during the opening of the Slovak language and culture summer school, Studia Academica Slovaca, in Bratislava on July 31, 2023.

Inspired by foreigners, Professor leads centre improving Slovak language education for them

Associate Professor Michaela Mošaťová says there is no officially specified qualification for lecturers of Slovak as a foreign language.

Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer) arrives at a government meeting in Bratislava on February 12, 2025.

News digest: Fico poses with war criminal, then heads to meet the pope

A look at the most popular films in Slovak cinemas in 2024, a year that also proved successful for tourism.

PM Robert Fico

News digest: Fico’s patience wears thin as he issues ultimatum to his partners

A Bratislava park with a Valentine’s touch and a strange initiative from PM Fico’s sister.

Prime Minister Robert Fico

News digest: As cabinet reshuffle looms, PM Fico is MIA

Actors ‘come clean’ – jokingly admit they are controlled by foreign powers.

MP Rudolf Huliak (l) and MP Roman Malatinec (r) have known each other for about 20 years.

News digest: Pro-Russian hunter pulls the strings in Fico’s coalition

Two politicians who ran out of luck on the road.

News digest: Smer names new ‘enemy of the state’ – a Georgian man fighting Russia

Slovakia moves to expel a Ukrainian citizen over allegations of a coup plot.

Bombic

News digest: Slovakia brings back its most notorious export

PM Fico has a new target - this time, it’s not Zelensky but a French guy. Meanwhile, his interior minister is in hot water.

PM Robert Fico and his cabinet on January 23, 2025
PM Robert Fico during an extraordinary parliamentary session on January 21, 2025.
A police officer patrols the road leading to the grammar school building (third from the right, orange in colour) following a knife attack in the town of Spišská Stará Ves on January 16, 2025.

News digest: School stabbing shakes quiet border town

PM Fico avoids Kyiv, e-shops set records, and Slovak phrases explore guilt.

Knife attack at a grammar school in Spišská Stará Ves, eastern Slovakia, on January 16, 2025.

Knife attack at Slovak school leaves two dead, one in critical condition

The attacker is reported to be an 18-year-old student.

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MPs Branislav Gröhling (SaS), Michal Šimečka (Progressive Slovakia), Milan Majerský (KDH), and Michal Šipoš (Slovakia) during a press conference of opposition parties following an attempt to open a parliamentary session in Bratislava on January 14, 2025.

News digest: A budet bordel!

Should you shake hands with someone you disagree with? This simple gesture has sparked a nationwide debate in Slovakia.

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla.

News digest: Bratislava visit in Trump’s plans, Czech politician says

Detained “MacGyver” from Košice, Hviezdoslav hits the stage in English, and Fico back in action.

Prime Minister Robert Fico (left) and Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal greet each other ahead of a meeting between members of the Slovak and Ukrainian governments on 11 April 2024 in Michalovce.

News digest: Fico considers leveraging refugees in gas dispute

Famous wrecked car, PM critiqued, and MPs’ legislative blunder.

News digest: Is Fico about to shoot himself in the foot?

Demonstrators are set to gather outside the office of PM Fico on Friday.

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