The Latest Breaking News from Robert Fico

These are the main developments as the war enters if 693rd day.

Populist leader Robert Fico increasingly portraying journalists as enemies as part of political strategy, say experts

Slovakia’s new prime minister, Robert Fico, says he considers the war between Ukraine and Russia a frozen conflict that cannot be solved by sending arms to the Ukrainian armed forces

Wilders’s Party for Freedom has been on a long ascent, fuelled by poverty and the fear of competition from migration.

Slovakia’s new government has won a mandatory confidence vote in Parliament

Robert Fico describes leading broadcasters and newspapers as hostile and says they are ‘unwelcome guests at government office’

Ukraine’s intelligence agency has taken credit for a car bombing that killed a member of the Russia-backed authority in the illegally annexed Luhansk region

In this debate we focus on the recent election results in Poland and Slovakia, and discuss what they mean for Europe. Liberals across the continent are cheering after Polish opposition parties won enough seats to form a majority, potentially ending eight years of rule by the conservative Law and Justice…

The new Slovak government has announced a “massive” deployment of police and armed forces along the border with Hungary to prevent growing numbers of migrants entering the country