This is the pattern of politics in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Baltic states and, particularly, Slovakia, where the social democratic Smer, whose roots go back to the Communist Party ...

Prague, Oct 1 (EFE).- The populist social democratic Smer party of pro-Russian former prime minister Robert Fico has won the early parliamentary elections in Slovakia with 23.3 percent of the vote.

THE OPPOSITION party Smer will merge with the non-parliamentary Social Democratic Party of Slovakia, the latter's senior body decided, but the decision must still be approved by a special meeting to ...