Robert Fico returned to power and took over as prime minister for the fourth time after his leftist Smer, or Direction, party won Slovakia’s Sept 30 parliamentary election.

Today in Slovakia – your Thursday briefing with the top news in one place.Fico’s security huddle Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer) convened a session of the Security Council on Thursday, May ...

Contrary to most predictions, former Prime Minister Robert Fico and his Smer (Direction) party won Slovakia’s parliamentary election last weekend. With almost 23 percent of the vote, or 42 of ...

According to the final tallies released by Slovakia’s Statistical Office on Sunday, Robert Fico’s populist SMER party won 22.9% of the vote. Progressive Slovakia (PS), a liberal and pro ...

FILE PHOTO-Robert Fico, Chairman of Smer - Social Democracy arrives to a news conference at the party's headquarters after the country's parliamentary election in Bratislava, Slovakia March 1, 2020.

The mood soured further when a journalist from the news website 360 tried to ask about political matters. “Learn the ...

SMER/Robert Fico via Facebook "The opposition abuses how large democracies enforce a single mandatory opinion on major foreign policy issues and reject the sovereign positions of small countries ...

Fico and his leftist Smer, or Direction, party, won Slovakia's Sept. 30 parliamentary elections, staging a political comeback after campaigning on a pro-Russian and anti-American message.

Political analysts speculate that Fico may team up with both Hlas — which split away from Smer three years ago — and the Slovak National Party, which received a bit under 6% of the vote, to ...

Slovakia woke up Sunday to the likelihood of its new government being led by leftist-populist Robert Fico and his pro-Russia Smer party following their convincing victory in Saturday’s election. Smer ...

Stefan Löfven, the president of PES and former prime minister of Sweden, had threatened to expel Fico in an interview with Swedish media before the election due to its populist tilt. Smer was already ...