La Slovacchia al “Crossroads critical” mentre mesi di protesta minacciano Pro-Mosca Fico

“As massive anti-government demonstrations in Slovakia reach the three-month mark, protest organisers and political observers alike say that the country is at a crossroads in the face of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico’s turn away from the EU and towards Moscow.
On Friday, crowds will take to the streets across the country once again to voice their discontent with Fico, who has pivoted to the east since taking office for a fourth time in October 2023. Since then, critics have decried his government as increasingly authoritarian and repressive. “

https://www.euronews.com/2025/03/21/slovakia-at-critical-crossroads-as-months-of-protest-threaten-pro-moscow-fico

Greetings from Turkey we are fighting against same evil

Would it be accurate to say that Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Turkey are all experiencing a protest wave at the moment, which is basically pro-democratic and pro-European? Well, I don’t know that the Turkish protestors are particularly pro-EU, but it’s a common theme in other protests against strongmen with Russian links. Do protestors in these countries consider themselves part of a broader, international struggle, or see themselves as being in solidarity with the protests in the other countries?

I’m asking as an American; there is almost no coverage of these protests here, which is wild, because it seems like a pretty important moment in southeastern Europe is unfolding at present.

For all its faults it turns out the EU is more appealing to the average European citizen than the prospect of living in a Putin satellite state. Who’d have thought?

Keep your dictatorship and leave everyone else the fuck alone.