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Live Not By Lies – An Answer to Rod Dreher

L’ubomír Urbančok May 31, 2023

OPINION — Although I’ve never been a fan of Dreher's, an interview published in The National Catholic Reporter only confirms my attitude. In this article, he brings up an intimate conversation with Cardinal Pell. He was supposed to have travelled around Europe…

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A fully technocratic government in Slovakia

The Editorial Board May 19, 2023

Slovakia – Following the resignation of Eduard Heger’s government on May 7, 46-year-old economist and banker Ľudovít Ódor, the deputy governor of the National Bank of Slovakia, was appointed prime minister by President Zuzana Čaputová to lead an interim "government of experts"…

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Slovakian PM Eduard Heger leaving earlier than planned

The Editorial Board May 12, 2023

Slovakia – Less than five months after having lost its majority in the National Council, Eduard Heger’s center-right coalition government, which was supposed to be in charge of current affairs until the early parliamentary elections scheduled for September 30, has just been…

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Poland and Slovakia to send some 40 MiG-29s to Ukraine

The Editorial Board March 28, 2023

Poland/Slovakia – Polish President Andrzej Duda was the first to announce the delivery of fighter jets to Ukraine, during the visit of his Czech counterpart, Petr Pavel, on 16 March. Duda stated that his country was going to deliver four MiG-29 fighter…

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Eduard Heger leaves Igor Matovič’s OL’aNO party to found the “Democrats” party

The Editorial Board March 10, 2023

Slovakia – Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger, whose government was outvoted in the National Council on 15 December, is now conducting day-to-day business pending the early parliamentary elections, which will take place on 30 September. He is also leaving the sinking…

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Growing dissension between Prague and Budapest over Ukraine

The Editorial Board March 7, 2023

Czechia/Hungary – The Visegrád Group appeared for many years as a more or less politically cohesive entity, representing the specific interests of Central Europe against Brussels’ efforts at imposing leftist liberal ideologies upon the whole EU and its drive for ever more…

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Higher than average inflation in V4 countries

The Editorial Board February 23, 2023

Central Europe – The latest published economic figures indicate the persistence of high inflation in Central Europe, particularly in the four countries of the Visegrád Group, with the situation being particularly serious in Hungary. Hungary’s annual inflation at 25.7 percent in January…

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Early legislative elections to be held in Slovakia on 30 September

The Editorial Board January 27, 2023

Slovakia – Slovakia’s Prime Minister Eduard Heger announced on Sunday, 22 January, that the early parliamentary elections triggered by the motion of no confidence passed by the National Council last 15 December will be held on 30 September 2023. The National Council…

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For Rastislav Káčer, “Hungary is not a Western-style democracy”

The Editorial Board January 26, 2023

Slovakia/Hungary – In an interview with actuality.sk, Slovakia’s Foreign Minister, Rastislav Káčer renewed his attacks on his country’s southern neighbour and its Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán. When asked whether Hungary is still a democracy, Káčer replied: “In light of my criteria, Hungary is…

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Czechia and Slovakia: Thirty years of a successful divorce

The Editorial Board January 3, 2023

Czechia/Slovakia – On 1 January 1993, three years after the Velvet Revolution, which put an end to almost 42 years of communist rule in Czechoslovakia, the two constituent peoples of that binational state, originally founded in October 1918 and reconstituted in April…

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Slovak government voted out by Parliament

The Editorial Board December 19, 2022

Slovakia – Slovakia is again going through a political crisis. After having been in office for just over 20 months, Eduard Heger’s government was voted out by the National Council – Slovakia’s unicameral parliament – last Thursday when a motion tabled by…

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Slovak army to acquire 152 Swedish combat vehicles and 14 U.S. F-16s

The Editorial Board December 15, 2022

Slovakia – One of the consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine is that most Central European countries have been supplying arms, often Soviet-made, to the Ukrainian army and replacing them with more modern Western equipment. This can certainly be said of…