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  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2019
    Anger swells in Slovakia ahead of trial over journalist’s murder

    Revelations about links between business people and politicians spur anger at country’s elite

  • Monday, 16 December, 2019
    EU eastern tensions
    Liberal mayors from Visegrad Four unite to defy own governments

    Prague, Warsaw, Budapest and Bratislava seek direct funds from Brussels

  • Monday, 28 October, 2019
    EU economy
    Central Europe braces for effects of German slowdown

    Supply chains at risk as carmaking sector that has led growth goes into reverse

  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2019
    Tony Barber
    Tides of illiberalism ebb in eastern Europe

    Popular mobilisation in defence of the rule of law deserves western support

  • Friday, 26 July, 2019
    Corporate bonds
    Rally propels Czech gas pipeline to record bond deal

    EP Infrastructure borrows at slender yield reflecting runaway bond markets

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2019
    AnalysisEM Squared
    ‘Grim’ eastern European demographics tipped to sap growth Premium

    Banks and real estate among sectors expected to be exposed by declining labour force

  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2019
    European Parliament elections
    Slovakians snub European polls despite economic boon

    Country’s apathy felt throughout central Europe three decades after the fall of Berlin wall

  • Monday, 15 April, 2019
    European Parliament
    Central Europe’s liberals prepare to halt populist advance

    Zuzana Caputova’s Slovakia victory heartens region’s progressive politicians

  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2019
    Slovakia’s ruling Smer party appoints new finance minister

    Ladislav Kamenicky to take role as Peter Kazimir leaves to run the central bank

  • Promoted Content
  • Monday, 1 April, 2019
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Slovakia offers a ray of hope in central Europe

    Zuzana Caputova’s election is a victory for liberalism in a populist age

  • Sunday, 31 March, 2019
    Eastern Europe
    Anti-corruption lawyer elected Slovakian president

    Zuzana Caputova propelled to power by public anger at murder of investigative journalist

  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2019
    News in Focus podcast9 min listen
    How a double murder inspired a new politics in Slovakia

    Six years ago, Zuzana Caputova was a little-known lawyer fighting the expansion of a…

  • Monday, 18 March, 2019
    Populism in Europe
    EU centrist faces swing to right to secure Slovak poll victory

    Maros Sefcovic must court populists to beat liberal rival in presidential race

  • Sunday, 17 March, 2019
    EU eastern tensions
    Anti-corruption lawyer wins first round of Slovakia election

    Pro-European Zuzana Caputova tapped in to national shock at murder of journalist

  • Thursday, 14 March, 2019
    Slovak police charge man with ordering journalist’s murder

    Killing plunged country into turmoil last year and ultimately led to PM’s resignation

  • Thursday, 14 March, 2019
    Corruption anger fires up Caputova campaign in Slovakia

    Liberal lawyer’s rapid rise shows generational change and reaction to populism

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2019
    AnalysisEM Squared
    Rising wages start to erode central Europe’s competitiveness Premium

    Subdued headline inflation is masking underlying price pressures across region

  • Tuesday, 5 February, 2019
    Ex-Slovakia PM raises concerns with judicial court bid

    Robert Fico claims politicians on constitutional tribunal are ‘a good thing’

  • Tuesday, 23 October, 2018
    Slovak president accuses state officials of mafia cover-up

    Andrej Kiska writes scathing op-ed about organised crime amid furore over death of journalist

  • Monday, 8 October, 2018
    ExplainerPress freedom
    The journalists killed in EU member states in the past year

    Viktoria Marinova’s death follows that of Daphne Caruana Galizia and Jan Kuciak

  • Thursday, 4 October, 2018
    Slovakian business and finance
    Brussels approves Slovakia’s investment in Jaguar Land Rover plant
  • Monday, 27 August, 2018
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    Central Europe: running out of steam

    After 20 years of growth, labour shortages threaten to shake up the region’s economic model

  • Monday, 13 August, 2018
    Tony Barber
    The Prague Spring still haunts Europe

    The human thirst for political rights, justice and national freedom is unquenchable

  • Saturday, 4 August, 2018
    AnalysisWorld
    Russian bikers ride into trouble over Slovakia base

    Nationalist group Night Wolves provokes outcry after setting up clubhouse

  • Friday, 27 July, 2018
    World
    Slovak far-right leader indicted
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