Robert Fico, the country’s increasingly illiberal prime minister, who was seriously injured in an assassination attempt in May, no longer has the support of his one-time loyal servant, President Peter ...

Populist Peter Pellegrini has been elected president of Slovakia, succeeding the liberal Zuzana Caputova. Mr Pellegrini, 48, defeated the pro-Western Ivan Korčok, a former diplomat, with 53% of ...

Pellegrini called for national unity in his speech at a special session of Parliament in Bratislava. He has become Slovakia’s sixth president since the country gained independence after the ...

The spokesman of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Heorhii Tykhyi, in response to the words of the President of Slovakia Peter Pellegrini about the territorial concessions to russia by ...