Catch up quickly with the stories from Central and Eastern Europe that matter. Russia’s war on Ukraine Britain this week accused Russia of plotting to...
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Whoever forms Slovakia’s next government, serious questions need to asked as to how a rabidly pro-Moscow politician can be the clear winner of an election in an EU...
Catch up quickly with the stories from Central and Eastern Europe that matter. Russia’s war on Ukraine International regulators are incapable of properly...
Slovakia has had three governments in as many years and will soon have another, with elections just over three weeks away. But this time, the country’s democracy and...
A court in Bratislava sentenced former soldier Miroslav Marček to 23 years prison on April 6 for the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak (pictured above) and his fiancée...
Elections in Slovakia have long given analysts a challenge: how to define or categorise the political orientation of increasingly numerous, powerful yet atypical parties...
The Movement of Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OL’aNO), a centre-right populist party led by Igor Matovič, a millionaire and former news business owner...
Slovak voters head to the polls on February 29 to elect 150 MPs to the National Council, the country’s parliament, under a proportional election system that will have...
Slovakia has again refused to ratify the Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women. “Today’s decision by the Slovak Parliament, rejecting...
Our weekly digest of articles about emerging Europe published elsewhere this week, all of which caught our eye and all of which are well worth your time. Listing them...
As previously announced in April, former Slovak president Andrej Kiska has launched a new pro-EU political party, aiming to provide an alternative to the ruling Smer...
Anti-corruption activist and environmental campaigner Zuzana Čaputová has been sworn in as Slovakia’s first female president. “I’m not here to rule, I’m here to...