Slovakia
In wake of journalist’s murder, Slovak protesters say ‘corruption, not courage,’ should be punished
The killing of Jan Kuciak, 27, who investigated corruption among politically-connected business people, and his fiancée at their home in February increased widespread anger about persistent corruption allegations, leading to the largest near-weekly protests since the end of communism in 1989.
After the murder of an investigative journalist and a government shakeup, Slovakia ponders its tenuous future
Recent protests sparked by the killing of an investigative journalist have exposed deep-seated fault lines in the Central European country of Slovakia, where money and politics have created a toxic brew as the country now struggles to move past economic and political corruption.
The populist tide has spread to one of Central Europe’s last liberal democracies
Andrej Babis and his party are winning the Czech Republic’s parliamentary elections this weekend. Add him to the current president, and that would mean not one, but two Donald Trump admirers governing a liberal democracy in the EU.
