The Party of European Socialists on Thursday suspended both Robert Fico’s election-winning Smer (Direction) party and Peter Pellegrini’s Hlas (Voice) party, which on Wednesday announced they’d formed ...

PROTESTS, a social measures package and the opposition were among the issues of the Smer congress held in Nitra on December 6. In his speech Prime Minister and Smer chairman Robert Fico said that the ...

TASR brings a quick morning overview of the most important events seen in Slovakia on the previous day (Sunday, 14 December): BRATISLAVA - Defence Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) stated on STVR's ...

The parliamentary caucuses of Smer-SD and Voice-SD have condemned the behaviour of MP and leader of the 'Slovakia' party Igor Matovic and other opposition members in Parliament on Thursday (11 ...

Monika Beňová, a Slovak MEP for Robert Fico's Smer-SD (NI) party, proposed ending negotiations with the Party of European Socialists (PES), which suspended the party's membership last year, claiming ...

Smer-SD (NI) will not join Viktor Orban's new Patriots for Europe group, said party leader and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, citing a lack of alignment with left-wing or social-democratic ...

The largest opposition party, Progresívne Slovensko (Progressive Slovakia), is ahead of Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-SD party, in opinion polls. The gap between them is slight, this is evidenced ...

IN THE run up to the March 5 parliamentary elections the ruling Smer party has unveiled its so-called third social package with measures focused on reduction of unemployment, reconstruction of school ...

March 10 (Reuters) - Former Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-SD party, which has called for an end to military aid to neighbouring Ukraine, has taken the lead in an opinion poll for the first ...

Former prime minister Robert Fico, whose left-wing Smer-SD party is set to win the parliamentary vote, is infamous for his frequent verbal attacks on the community. He has labelled adoption by ...

With the fall of Slovakia’s long-ruling Smer-SD party, social democrats in all Visegrad Four countries are on the sidelines. And the radical right is getting stronger. On Saturday, the last (at least ...