Slovakia

We’re not pro-Putin, we’re just anti-war, says incoming Slovak government as populist Robert Fico wins national elections.

French President Emmanuel Macron has admitted that he should have previously listened to Eastern Europe regarding the threat Russia posed.

Slovakia has delivered the remaining nine of the 13 Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jets that it promised to Ukraine.

Ukraine wants more air defence missiles, warning if they lose control of the skies the country will be pounded into the ground.

An MEP tells Breitbart it is outrageous the EU is handing out cash to lobbyists who promote ‘anti-nation, anti-family, anti-life’ policies.

A nationwide referendum to make possible an early election has failed to produce a legally binding result because the turnout was too low.

Czech police fired warning shots in the air before detaining the driver of a van carrying 15 migrants Thursday morning.

The EU proposed plans to impose an embargo on Russian oil by the end of the year as a part of its sixth round of sanctions against Moscow.

The leftist coalition government of Germany has thrown its support behind the move for the European Union to impose an embargo on Russian oil.

Another transgender person has been turned back by Ukrainian officials at the border and told to take up arms and fight Russia.

Ten European Union member-states have been exposed for selling hundreds of millions of euros worth of military kit to Russia between 2015 and 2020, despite sanctions.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed he is looking “very actively” at a scheme for Poland to donate Soviet-designed jets to Ukraine and have them replaced with American jets — hours after the Polish government said the plan was “fake news”. 

The Slovakian National Crime Agency (NAKA) has warned residents could face 25 years in prison if caught promoting “war propaganda” on social media regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Despite initial reports that around 70 Russian-made fighter jets were being provided to Ukraine by EU member-states, Western powers have now apparently denied any plans of giving combat aircraft to the embattled nation.

Several EU states are preparing for a wave of Ukrainian refugees, while “humanitarian superpower” Sweden has refused to take part. 

Irish police were forced to hold back an angry crowd from a foreign man on Wednesday, shortly after he was charged with the murder of a 23-year-old woman.

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.

Senior officials from the Slovak Republic are in Taiwan for talks on deepening ties with the island, the highest-level visit in many years.

Pope Francis urged young people in Slovakia Tuesday to have the courage to dream of marriage and a family.

Pope Francis called for universal condemnation of anti-Semitism Monday evening in an address to Slovakian Jews gathered in Bratislava’s Rybné námestie Square.

The government of Slovakia has revoked its decision to bar unvaccinated people from attending public events during Pope Francis’ upcoming visit.

Pope Francis announced on Sunday a fall 2021 trip to Slovakia and Hungary, two of the four countries of the Visegrad group, an important conservative political bloc in Central Europe.

BERLIN (AP) — Two suspects were arrested in Germany and Slovakia in raids Monday on a group accused of smuggling Vietnamese into Germany and other European countries for large fees that they had to work off in massage parlors, brothels and other places, authorities said.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) – Slovakia’s health minister says he plans to keep AstraZeneca in the country’s vaccine arsenal, speaking a day after the country suspended use of the shots after a recipient died.

Slovakian Health Minister Marek Krajci was forced to resign on Thursday amid pressure from the country’s four-party coalition government, which threatened to disband last month in protest of his order of two million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V, a Chinese coronavirus vaccine candidate.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán believes it is the “calling” of Europe’s conservative former Soviet satellite states to bring their “uncompromising” tradition of anti-communism into the “common store” of Western values.

The presidents of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia gathered in northern Poland on Tuesday for two days of debates.

VIENNA — Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia were poised to get their first coronavirus vaccination Wednesday, acknowledging their past suffering with a special tribute 76 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, where the Nazis killed more than 1 million Jews and others.

(AFP) — Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a new four-week coronavirus lockdown in England, which will join several European countries in imposing the measure for a second time, as Slovakia took a different tack and began testing its entire population.

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic and neighbouring Slovakia have registered big jumps in new coronavirus infections, setting a new record for the fourth straight day.

The central European Visegrad group has criticised the European Commission’s planned reform of the EU’s asylum policy, which could ultimately force members to accept migrants.

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic has recorded its biggest single-day jump in coronavirus cases.

The President of Slovakia, the Prime Minister of Slovakia, and govt members donned protective masks and gloves for their swearing-in.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) – The centre-right populist opposition claimed victory in the parliamentary election in Slovakia, ending the reign of the country’s long-dominant but scandal-tainted leftist party that governed on an anti-immigration platform.

A top UN official warned that Europe will face a new migrant crisis if the situation in Lebanon, a country that has been ravaged an economic crisis and internal strife, is not resolved before it becomes a failed state.

LONDON (AP) – Lawmakers in Slovakia have rejected a proposed bill that would have made it obligatory for women seeking abortions to first have an ultrasound and obtain the consent of the father before having the procedure.