Former Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico was arrested on live television this week after attempting to give a statement ahead of a planned protest that would defy the country’s Wuhan virus restrictions.
At a summit in Warsaw, Poland, leaders of the Central European Visegrad Group have said they will not yield to “blackmail” from the European Union (EU) over the forced redistribution of asylum seekers.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote requested by the opposition over high energy prices.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia has established a new police unit to fight terrorism and far-right extremism, the prime minister said Wednesday. Robert Fico, who introduced the new unit, said that he was glad that police can now “react to
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico urged other European leaders on Monday to stop calling referendums on domestic issues, saying they posed a threat to the EU and to the euro.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said Europeans’ patience for mass migration is running out following the attack in Berlin.
Slovakia’s parliament has passed a bill, by a two-thirds majority, effectively barring Islam from gaining official status as a religion.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico told journalists they were “dirty, anti-Slovak prostitutes” on Wednesday when asked about allegations that public procurement rules had been broken for cultural events marking Slovakia’s European Union presidency.
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Quotas for distributing asylum seekers among European Union member states are “politically finished”, Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia, which currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said on Monday.
Hungary, Poland and other countries should have their funding slashed if they fail to show sufficient “solidarity” on migrant issues, or respect for “European values”, two influential MEPs have said.
(REUTERS) – The EU’s future cannot be decided by just two or three powerful Western members, Slovakia’s prime minister said on Thursday, in a dig at France and Germany and a plea for more involvement by the bloc’s newer ex-communist members.
Just over a month before Slovakia will take the rotating presidency of the European Union, Prime Minister Robert Fico claims that Islam has no place in his country. “”Islam has no place in Slovakia,” Fico told media on Wednesday night
Leftist Premier Robert Fico sealed a coalition deal with three right-wing and centrist parties Wednesday, handing his party a third term in office and averting the risk of an early election ahead of Slovakia’s EU presidency. Robert Fico’s populist Smer-Social Democracy
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BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (pictured above) won Saturday’s parliamentary election, nearly complete results showed, but gains by opposition parties including far-right extremists will complicate formation of a new government. Fico, a leftist whose anti-immigration views are
(Reuters) – Slovaks started voting on Saturday, likely to hand a third term to Prime Minister Robert Fico, a left-wing nationalist whose vocal anti-immigration stance chimes with those of Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Opinion polls show Fico’s
Directly linking Islam to the wave of New Year’s sex crimes across Europe and the Paris terror attacks, Slovakian premier Robert Fico has said his government will not allow Muslims to create “a unified community” in his country, claiming it is
This week I stood up in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and spoke about an ‘inconvenient truth’. It was a speech that most in the chamber simply did not want to hear. To howls of derision, I told the European
This is geopolitical chaos theory in practice. Every day the European Union (EU) changes direction on how it will cope with hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing the Mediterranean and heading for a new life in Europe. Border fences go
Contents: EU votes to distribute 120,000 refugees among countries by quota; Hungary’s Viktor Orbán invokes memories of Ottoman Empire
