Explainer 386: Slovakia’s new direction?

The Foreign Desk - A podcast by Monocle

Last weekend, Slovakia narrowly voted in Robert Fico, leader of the Smer party, as prime minister. He is in a legal battle with his president and one of his few allies appears to be Hungary’s pro-Putin leader, Viktor Orbán. Andrew Mueller explains how this new leadership is at odds with the country that Slovakia has been in recent years.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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