Long years in jail and terabytes of scandals: The definite end of Kočner’s era
The results of a police investigation into the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak have left powerful figures in Slovakia extremely jumpy.
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PM’s soft spot for brides leads to a mass testing programme
Slovak authorities underestimated the second wave of the pandemic and walked straight into it, unprepared.
The victory of far-right fundamentalism in Poland
The Constitutional Tribunal’s decision to ban abortion in cases of foetal defects resulted in a wave of pro-women’s rights protests in Warsaw and other cities.
The Life of Ján Kuciak and a Brief History of Slovakia
Flesh of a tiger
What happens to dead tigers that die young in suspicious circumstances in legal breeding farms? The disappear into thin air.
Bullet for a Slovak reporter
Slovakia: The Countess and the farmers
The European Union directs a massive amount of money towards Slovakia in the form of agricultural subsidies. These funds are managed and redistributed by the Agricultural Paying Agency (APA), an organisation with an annual budget of more than half a billion euros at its disposal. This kind of money attracts not only farmers and agricultural […]
Subsidised and defrauded. Visegrad EU funds under the eye of OLAF
For over twenty years, the European Anti-Fraud Office (commonly known as OLAF, from the French: Office européen de lutte antifraude) has been protecting the EU’s financial interests, investigating fraud, corruption, and serious misconduct within the Union’s budget and institutions. The office has also developed an anti-fraud policy for the European Commission. But while OLAF looks […]
