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Democratic Security
Drones Shot Down Latvia’s Government. How Others Can Avoid Such a Fate
19 May 2026
Journalists in Slovakia don’t want to fight a war with politicians. Mainstream politicians once again try to redefine what journalism is and change the Press Code.
This April, at the International Journalism in Perugia, Visegrad/Insight interviewed Beata Balogova, editor-in-
After the cementing her victory in the March elections, president-elect Zuzana Čaputová will take office on 15 June 2019. Her victory sends a very positive signal not only for Slovakia but across the region. However, it seems that Slovakia is at a crossroads: it’s not so rosy as it might seem from the outside. What are the challenges you’ve noticed?
Zuzana Čaputová will have to function in a context and she cannot set all the rules by herself.
Of course, she can try, and I hope she will, to keep her discourse and keep her manners: reasonable, calm, making good use of arguments, avoiding populism. But she is entering in a very tense political environment: where Robert Fico is fighting for survival, where fascists feel encouraged, and the political conspiracy theories flourish.
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