Slovakia plans to block EU sanctions package against Russia but not €90bn loan for Ukraine

He worked his miracle on the last Pope. Weird that he isn't spending more time with Trump...

JD Vance should get a tip to visit beautiful town of Handlová

for reference, Magyar became lead figure influencing Tisza (founded in 2020) 24 months prior election to oppose Orbán's Fidez in Hungary and ultimately was able to convince voters by pointing out what became more and more obvious toward election day. Opposition thrives an competition, not on logic coincidence to be not part of a government and therefor generally being written off as "is ass". better check your passport, if you are eligible to vote in slovakia. Not unheard of, that opposition goes on steroids when governments f-up short before elections. edit: Slovakia gov in charge dimming down to not increase sanction regime does in principle not say to withdraw sanctions, neither align with russia. It is rather a sign they heard what happened in Hungary and try to chicken out with baby steps.

Well it's well far better than the opposition in Hungary was, and there they managed to take him out

It was Hungarys problem too for 12 years.

Fico isn't likely to be able to form the next government. It's almost certainly gonna be the current opposition. The real issue is how long is that new coalition going to last. If there are the likes of OĽANO and KDH in the government, which seems inevitable, it's gonna implode very quickly.

Didn't really have the impression that the French were so Pro russian, where did you get that?

There are consequences but until very recently they weren’t effective because of Orban's veto. Now that Orban is out of the picture Fico is backed in a corner.

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I mean. Considering Orbán? It's not a guarantee anymore.

He no longer has Orban to veto any potential repercussions against him though.

No one’s ever heard of us, so they think we’re the new boys who just became Russia-aligned 😭

I guess before the internet it was a bit harder to do so. We need modern institutions with the impact of digital platforms considered from the outset. 

Ah, yes, unfortunately you have more years to wait than us, but at least you have more brakes in the system than us for the assholes to overcome. Hopefully they won't do stuff as extreme as here. Fingers crossed for you!

Macinka je kokot. Really, the guy got less votes than I have Instagram followers and he’s prancing around like he’s the queen of the ball. Worst of all, he’s proud of the fact that he’s an a****** and his entire thing is “sticking it to the libs lol” but you can just feel he would break down crying the first time he would get attacked for real. Zero brains and zero plans, but so have his few voters. He irrationally irritates me 10 times more than Okamura.

Probably yes. Babiš will do in exchange for tax exemption for his companies in Slovakia. And that's how modern corporate feudalism works, folks. Edit: spelling.

If he does that, we will hopefully go to the streets. I would

It's like with the Liberum Vero in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. You just have to bribe one noble and you can obstruct the whole system. And its not like anybody warned about it before the central Europeans joined. It had been a hotly debated issue for more than a decade in the early 00ties and 90ties.

Babiš is not really pro-Russian. He isn't anti-Russian either, but he's nowhere near Orban or Fico.  So while he won't fall in line with the EU main stream, he won't make serious trouble that would hurt Ukraine.

Yeah but we are almost bankrupt, people stop giving shit about geopolitics when factories close almost every month now. Fico always had a good economic situation when this communist sentiment actually worked for him, you could see it in orbans case when shit hits the fan, nobody cares about Russia and dissinfo anymore. Fico is desparate, parliament is barely functional and every law has to be redacted like 3 times if it is not stopped by EU. This won't last much longer.

Five nuclear power plants, the sixth one is built. Three small decommissioned. Currently producing 55% of electricity.

Two active power plants and four active reactors, and one under construction (thanks to the recent incidents in Zaporizhzhia, I decided to study nuclear power plants in the Eurasian continent), but the electrification of the automotive fleet is not large enough to make the escalating price of fuels negligible, and I really don't know if they use gas for cooking or if everything is electrified.