Shorouk Express Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico faces heat from the opposition after he didn’t bat an eye when a group of Slovaks living in Serbia was assaulted. The incident took place this month in the northern city of Bački Petrovac, home to Serbia’s largest Slovak minority, where a photo exhibition documenting months of anti-government…
Shorouk Express Slovakia could back a new EU sanctions package against Russia on Tuesday, Prime Minister Robert Fico said, as long as it first reaches a deal with European partners to cushion the effect of a proposed ban on Russian gas entering the bloc. Slovakia has blocked the sanctions package over Bratislava’s concerns that a…
Shorouk Express “I couldn’t fit everything.” For the second time in as many weeks, Slovakian citizens took to the streets to protest against the Robert Fico government (SMER-SD, populist). On 7 February, nearly 50,000 people marched through the capital Bratislava to slogans such as “Slovakia belongs to Europe”, denouncing Fico’s pro-Russian policies and authoritarian excesses,…
