Since his return to power in 2023, Prime Minister Robert Fico has implemented measures to exert control over the media in Slovakia. Since years, Fico expresses contempt for press freedom, frequently ...

To examples such as these, my friend might reply that Trump doesn’t always deliver on his rhetoric. That is true, but only to ...

Today in Slovakia - the main news of the day in less than five minutes.Fico flirts with authoritarianism on state visit to Uzbekistan During an official visit to Uzbekistan on Monday, Prime ...

A man has gone on trial for last year’s attempted assassination of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico ...

BRATISLAVA - The shots fired in last May’s assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico were not the first – or the only – to target a politician whose authoritarian drift has ...

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico (left) welcomed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as he arrived at Bratislava Castle for a Summit on Equal Quality of Products for All in Bratislava ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: A quick Google search reveals many articles, commentaries, social media posts, and scholarly debates on whether or not America is sliding into an ...

The mainstream American news media have failed as an institution to properly confront the country’s worsening democracy crisis in the Age of Trump. He is America’s first elected autocrat. His ...

A leading global democracy research institute says democratic “backsliding” must be turned around quickly—warning that after 10 years, recovery is “close to impossible.” ...