Around 9,000 people took to the streets of Slovakia’s capital this week to protest the sacking of the heads of the country’s cultural institutions, a move critics said was politically motivated and part of an effort by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico’s ruling coalition to...
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Slovakia’s constitutional court this week upheld a number of key provisions of a controversial amendment to the penal code that would weaken anti-corruption measures, changes that have raised concerns about the rule of law in the European Union member state, the Associated Press reported. The amendments...
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was in a “stable” condition but “not out of the woods yet”, officials said late Thursday, after an assassination attempt that shocked the nation and prompted concerns about divisions in the country, following officials’ remarks that the attack was politically...
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The government of Slovakia on Wednesday approved a plan to abolish the country’s public broadcaster as part of a string of measures enhancing the state’s control over its media, a move critics said would endanger the independence of the press, the BBC reported. Prime Minister Robert...
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Thousands of Slovaks took to the streets of their capital of Bratislava recently to protest the pro-Russian stance of Prime Minister Robert Fico and his Smer-SD political party. As Reuters reported, Fico has been critical of European military aid to Ukraine, while seeking to improve...
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Thousands of Slovaks protested in the country’s capital this week to show support for Ukraine and denounce the government’s foreign policy shift that critics say has veered too close to Russia, Reuters reported. Around 5,000 people took to the streets of Bratislava on Tuesday, chanting slogans...
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EDITOR'S NOTE: Dear Readers, due to a technical error the news briefs and Discoveries sections of today’s DailyChatter were repeated from yesterday’s edition. We are sending a corrected version and we apologize for the inconvenience. The Editors Thousands of people took to the streets in the...
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Thousands of Slovakians took to the streets in the country’s major cities to protest against the government’s plan to do away with federal investigations into corruption and soften penalties for graft, racketeering and other crimes, the Associated Press reported. Left-wing populist and pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert...
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Slovakia’s former Prime Minister Robert Fico will return to office after his party signed a deal Monday to form a three-party coalition government, a move that has raised concerns about Slovakia’s support of Ukraine and its relations with the European Union, the Associated Press reported. Already,...
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The pro-Russian party, Direction – Slovak Social Democracy (SMER-SSD, or Smer), won Slovakia’s parliamentary elections over the weekend, a victory that could pose a challenge to NATO and European Union unity over Ukraine, CNN reported. Results showed that the populist left-wing party led the polls with...
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Since the invasion of Ukraine last year, Russia has become diplomatically isolated from the West – but not everywhere in Europe. Russophobes, in fact, are sounding alarms about the candidacy of Roberto Fico in Slovakia’s general election on Sept. 30. “We are a peaceful country,” said...
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A Slovak court acquitted a businessman accused of orchestrating the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova in 2018, his second acquittal in the case and one that the victims’ families and press groups described as “shocking,” the Associated Press reported. The...
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Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger stepped down this week after numerous ministers in his government resigned, a move that may likely deepen the political crisis in the country just months before an election that could see a pro-Russian party win, the Guardian reported. Heger handed his...
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Thirty years ago, the former communist country of Czechoslovakia split in two. The event was called the “Velvet Divorce” because it was an amicable divorce between two nations whose association dated back to the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, as the BBC recounted....
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