Progressive Slovakia won the largest share of the vote in Slovakia’s European Parliament election. Erik Lastic, Associate Professor at Comenius University in Bratislava, and Tim Haughton, Professor at the University of Birmingham, explain that while the attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico in May dominated headlines ahead of the election, the results largely reinforced pre-existing…

Dr. Michael J. Kopanic, Jr., from the University of Maryland Global Campus, takes a look at the Fico assassination attempt in relation to earlier instances of political violence in Slovakia. This article appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of the Czechoslovak Studies Association newsletter. Kopanic, Michael. “The Attempted Assassination of Slovakia’s Prime Minister, Robert Fico.”…

In the wake of the assassination attempt and a fortnight before European Parliament elections, Dr. Petra Alderman and Prof. Tim Haughton publish their analysis of the state of Slovak politics and explore how things might develop. Published by UK in a Changing Europe, 24 May 2024. Dr. Tim Haughton is Professor of Comparative and European…