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...Instead, he chose to position Hlas as a junior coalition partner alongside Fico’s Smer and the far-right nationalist Slovak National party, paving the way for Fico to form his fourth government....
...Fico’s allies have said new legislation could be drafted to pre-empt a negative court ruling....
...Brussels has warned Fico against the move — and so has the country’s president. So far Fico has not budged, insisting that the overhaul would be implemented by mid-March....
...The Socialists and Democrats group in the European parliament suspended Fico’s Smer party and its ally Hlas from its EU-wide political family in October after Fico formed his government with the populist...
...Slovakia is a eurozone member, which places limits on how disruptive Fico will be inside the EU. Rather, Fico’s priorities are primarily domestic....
...Fico started his fourth mandate as prime minister, while Pellegrini became parliamentary speaker....
...Fico has denied any Russian meddling in his election win. Fico has also alarmed Brussels by teaming up with Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s pro-Russia prime minister....
...After last year’s elections, Fico mended his relationship with Pellegrini to form a ruling coalition....
...Slovakia’s new prime minister, Robert Fico, said on Thursday his country was likely to neither continue to back Ukraine militarily nor support more sanctions against Russia....
...a Fico administration....
...worried about how far Fico can go in terms of fulfilling all the rhetoric from his campaign.”...
...a new book about Fico, tells Raphael Minder....
...More recently, Fico has used Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to stoke anti-western sentiment....
...Those unprecedented demonstrations forced Fico to resign....
...“Slovakia is not cowardly as Robert Fico would like us to be and stands on the right side of history,” said Ľubica Karvašová, of the country’s leading opposition party Progressive Slovakia....
...Fico said that it would be “strange” to support Globsec meetings attended by arms dealers and Soros....
...“I think that when campaign slogans clash with reality, Fico can be both very cynical and pragmatic.” Fico’s overt anti-Ukraine campaigning has raised alarm bells in Brussels and Washington....
...Fico wrote on Facebook earlier this month that authorities should “not give [illegal migrants] papers that legalise their stay in the EU”....
...“People forgot Fico was in power when Kuciak was murdered, and somehow they now feel nostalgia for Fico,” she said....
...Fico had been the frontrunner for most of the campaign....
...But with Fico as an ally, Orbán could resist further restrictions against Putin’s regime indefinitely....
...Hence they elect candidates like Robert Fico in Slovakia and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands....
...’s financial and military support has been critical in Kyiv’s 20-month-long defence against Russian aggression, but Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his newly elected Slovak counterpart Robert Fico...
...right-wing opposition party won the most votes in the country’s local elections in a blow to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a day after Slovakia chose a close ally of Eurosceptic, pro-Russian Prime Minister Robert Fico...
...Fico, a former prime minister, is leading the polls ahead of the elections, which are scheduled for September 30....
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