{"id":7579,"date":"2026-03-09T23:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2026-03-09T23:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T23:20:51","slug":"meps-warn-of-democratic-backsliding-in-ficos-slovakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/09\/meps-warn-of-democratic-backsliding-in-ficos-slovakia\/","title":{"rendered":"MEPs warn of democratic backsliding in Fico\u2019s Slovakia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have raised concerns about democratic backsliding in Slovakia under Prime Minister Robert Fico&#8217;s government. They warned that the government&#8217;s recent actions, including undermining judicial independence and curbing media freedom, threaten the country&#8217;s democratic principles. The discussion specifically focused on the 2024 abolition of the special prosecutor&#8217;s office and ongoing threats to the Whistleblower Protection Office, which currently remains functional only due to a Constitutional Court suspension. Slovak government representatives, especially from Prime Minister Robert Fico&#8217;s Smer party, dismissed the criticisms, claiming they were politically motivated and exaggerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 12, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/202703\/meps-warn-of-democratic-backsliding-in-ficos-slovakia\/\">euobserver.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have raised concerns about democratic backsliding in Slovakia under Prime Minister Robert Fico&#8217;s government. They warned that the government&#8217;s recent actions, including undermining judicial independence and curbing media freedom, threaten the country&#8217;s democratic principles. The discussion specifically focused on the 2024 abolition of the special prosecutor&#8217;s office and ongoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eroding-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8035,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions\/8035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}