Robert Fico Isn’t the Next Viktor Orban. Slovakia’s resurrected leader needed allies to form a government—and he isn’t as pro-Russian as many observers fear.

Since returning to power in 2023, nationalist Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has tightened his grip on what he deems ...

Prime Minister Robert Fico would gladly take the same steps many autocrats have taken. He would love to ban and suppress peaceful protests that trigger his traumatic memories of 2018, when public ...

Slovak opposition parties accused the left-right cabinet of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico of securing favourable terms ...

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on June 28 that he does not intend to meet directly with President Volodymyr Zelensky, ...

Fico has not directly commented on the looming U.S. election, and is not as outspoken as Orbán when it comes to American politics. But he has made his preference for Trump clear.

In the crackdown of nationalist Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's government on culture and media, heads of major cultural ...

Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, left, speaks with Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico at a European Council summit at EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2024.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is between life and death two days after an assassination attempt that sent shock waves across Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public radio ...

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico appeared in public for the first time on Friday since sustaining serious injuries in an assassination attempt. He criticized his liberal political opponents ...

Robert Fico, 59, has played a pivotal ... Like Mr. Orban, Mr. Fico has been a staunch critic of the European Union. After a parliamentary election last fall, Mr. Fico began his third term as prime ...