Ahead of planned pro-European protests in around 20 Slovak cities Friday, the pro-Moscow ruling coalition on Thursday used an emergency meeting of the country’s Security Council to address what it alleged was an “organized escalation” of domestic tensions directed from abroad.

Slovakia's opposition accused Prime Minister Robert Fico on Tuesday of laying the groundwork to take the country out of the European Union, but dropped its no-confidence motion to dismiss him and his leftist-nationalist government.

Operatives who participated in the Ukrainian Maidan and in Georgias unrest are now active in central Europe the Slovak prime minister has claimed

Representatives of the opposition parties of Slovakia left the meeting of the parliament, thereby refusing the vote initiated by them on the issue of confidence in the government of Robert Fico. This was reported by local media.

By Albin Sybera in Prague Slovakia’s President Peter Pellegrini said the situation in the country is “serious” following a security council meeting called after populist Prime Robert Fico claimed a plot to overthrow his government is taking place in which NGOs,

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico addresses the media during a meeting with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban in Bratislava, Slovakia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.