The Party of European Socialists on Thursday suspended both Robert Fico’s election-winning Smer (Direction) party and Peter Pellegrini’s Hlas (Voice) party, which on Wednesday announced they’d formed ...

PROTESTS, a social measures package and the opposition were among the issues of the Smer congress held in Nitra on December 6. In his speech Prime Minister and Smer chairman Robert Fico said that the ...

Monika Beňová, a Slovak MEP for Robert Fico's Smer-SD (NI) party, proposed ending negotiations with the Party of European Socialists (PES), which suspended the party's membership last year, claiming ...

The Smer-SD party can imagine post-election cooperation even with the extra-parliamentary far-right Republic party, House Vice-chair Tibor Gaspar (Smer-SD) has said in an end-of-year interview for ...

Smer-SD (NI) will not join Viktor Orban's new Patriots for Europe group, said party leader and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, citing a lack of alignment with left-wing or social-democratic ...

On Sunday, January 12, a Slovak parliamentary delegation left for Russia on a business visit. It consists of the representatives of two political unions: Smer – sociálna demokracia (SMER-SD) and ...

Slovak opposition party SMER-SSD, led by former prime minister Robert Fico, slightly increased its lead over its liberal challenger Progresivne Slovensko before a Sept. 30 election, according to IPSOS ...