Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has found himself at the center of a public and political scandal after flying to Croatia on a private jet for an extended weekend shortly after an official visit to Prague, accompanied by a woman whom Slovak media and the opposition describe as his partner....
Why Fico’s Slovakia is slowing Euro-Atlantic unity
After Robert Fico became prime minister for the fourth time in 2023, Slovakia reversed its foreign policy and shifted markedly toward closer ties with Russia. His government is now one of the main opponents of the EU’s hard line on the Kremlin. That shows up in attempts to block or...
Slovak opposition demands Fico explain the “Russian trail” in the foiled arson attack on a drone plant near Prešov
Opposition lawmakers in Slovakia have demanded official explanations from the government and Prime Minister Robert Fico after the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, citing sources in Germany’s security services, that a foiled August plot to set fire to a plant of the Ukrainian drone maker Skyeton near Prešov may...
Fico accuses the West of pushing NATO toward war with Russia
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said in a video address posted on social media on Saturday that the West has for more than four years been “needlessly pouring oil on the fire” in Ukraine. In his view, the strategy of “destroying Russia” through the war has failed, and some Western...
Fico says he does not want to drag Slovakia into a war “because of some Article 5” of NATO
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico publicly expressed his reluctance to fulfill obligations under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty on collective defense. He made the remarks on September 17, 2026, during a speech to students and hospital staff in Prešov. “Can you imagine, ladies and gentlemen, that Article 5...