Thousands of protesters took to the streets across Slovakia to participate in regular demonstrations against incumbent Prime Minister Robert Fico and his pro-Russian policies. Large crowds again ...

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico attends a parliamentary session during a no-confidence vote against his government, in Bratislava, Slovakia, January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa/File Photo ...

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March 17 (Reuters) - Slovak prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against the attacker who shot and seriously wounded Prime Minister Robert Fico last year, the general prosecutor's office said ...

On Tuesday, Samuel Migaľ and Radomír Šalitroš, two former rebellious Hlas MPs, struck a deal with PM Robert Fico (Smer), the latter thus securing their backing for his government. The details remained ...

BRATISLAVA - The junior coalition party, the Slovak National Party (SNS/NI), has called on PM Robert Fico (Smer-SD/NI) to dismiss Slovak EU Commissioner for Trade Maroš Šefčovič. The party ...

Fico’s government is set to implement another lesson from Putin’s playbook. Activists and civic organisations call it “the Russian law” – as well as a frontal attack on the foundations of democracy in ...

Pushing through this legislation is part of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s long-standing effort to bring NGOs and independent media to heel. Back in 2023, Fico vowed to end the “NGO supremacy” in ...

The government is bracing for renewed scrutiny as the long-delayed “Purgatory” corruption case, involving some of the country’s most powerful former officials, is finally set to proceed to trial. At ...

He was backed by Prime Minister Robert Fico, who declared that Slovaks "cannot live in a country where people are afraid to go into the forest and where humans become food for bears.” ...

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As Slovak PM Robert Fico shuts down police investigations into organised crime that reaches the highest levels of power, the officers involved are being silenced. But their wives refuse to stay quiet.