Slovakia’s Fico secures more ministries in a deal with coalition partners
Slovakia's ruling coalition partners will each give a ministry to populist Prime Minister Robert Fico's party in a government ...
Censorship, abortion and the ‘threat within’: what a free speech expert thinks of J.D. Vance’s remarks to Europe
One of Vance’s key claims for the decline of free speech in Europe left many UK observers dumbfounded. He rebuked the ...
Firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power – lessons from around the globe
A well-functioning bureaucracy is an organization of highly qualified civil servants who follow established rules to prevent abuses of power. Bureaucracies, in this way, are an important part of ...
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Huge protests in Serbia, Vucic honoured in Budapest
Friendly help? Many are calling for the resignation of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, while he is in Budapest for talks ...
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Orbán cabinet: Paris summit ‘a meeting of losers’
Once a friend, now a loser? Members of the Orbán government attack European leaders with incredible vehemence: ...
Former Charity Worker and Activist Faces an Unlikely Accusation: Coup Plotter
A woman who runs a pro-Ukraine group has been accused by Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia of plotting to topple him as ...
Hungary opposition leader vows to boost the economy and tackle cost-of-living crisis
Peter Magyar, the opposition challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said on Saturday he would focus on tackling ...
Hungary's transformation into an 'electoral autocracy' has parallels to Trump's second term
After becoming prime minister in 1998, Orbán suffered an unexpected electoral defeat four years later. He then swore he ...
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Orban flies to Dubai conference with Tucker Carlson
"International conference with an American icon: go Tucker Carlson!" - Viktor Orbán wrote on his social media with a photo showing him boarding a plane.
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Robert Fico’s pleas for cheap Russian gas bring Slovaks onto the street
They gathered force in January after Tibor Gaspar, an MP from Mr Fico’s Smer party, blunderingly told an interviewer that ...
Hungary's Orbán meets head of far-right German party AfD, calling her 'the future of Germany'
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is hosting Alice Weidel, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's candidate for ...
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The Danube flows backwards: orbánisation spreads upstream
While the rise of populism has been a global phenomenon since 15 years, it has lately found particularly fertile ground in the lands of the former Danubian monarchy, Austria, Slovakia and Czech ...