The fourth government of Robert Fico brought a drop of 12 places in the ranking of Reporters Without Borders. From the 17th place, we dropped to the 29th. The organisation has not yet taken into account the changes in the functioning of the public broadcaster RTVS or the draft law about NGOs.

Prime Minister Robert Fico has met with his Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal in Michalovce, where he assured him of Slovakia's strong support for Kyiv. At the same time, he signed a document, in which he condemned the Russian invasion and confirmed that Crimea and Donbas are part of Ukraine. 

Katarína Batková from the Civic Platform for Democracy warns that while in Hungary the dissolution of an organization had to be decided by a court, in Slovakia the dissolution may happen "without conditions, without the possibility to defend or object".

It is the government which has the final say in the foreign policy, not the President. Even with the pro-Western President, the Slovak PM is not welcome at some meetings, political scientist Radoslav Štefančík reminds EURACTIV Slovensko.