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.

Although the winner is SMER – Social Democracy – “In my prayers, I invoke and wish all of Slovakia appeasement, countenance, success and universal progress for the inhabitants of our ...