In this article: Czech President Zeman, the communists and the national populists are united in their grudge against the country’s public media. The outcome depends on billionaire Prime Minister Andrej Babiš. It was not his first attack on the media. But in his March 8 inauguration address, Czech Republic President Miloš Zeman took aim at […]

Read in English Der exekutionsartige Mord an dem slowakischen Journalisten Ján Kuciak und seiner Verlobten Martina Kušnírová schockierte die Slowakei, rüttelte die Politik des Landes auf und bewirkte den Rücktritt von Premierminister Robert Fico. Die von Kuciak hervorgebrachten Indizien, darunter posthum veröffentlichte Recherchen zu Verbindungen zwischen Vertrauensmännern Ficos und der italienischen Mafia, scheinen die vorherrschende […]

Zur deutschen Version The execution-style murders of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, shocked Slovakia, shook up the country’s politics and spurred the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico. While Kuciak’s work, including a posthumously published investigation into ties between Fico confidants and the Italian mafia, tapped into widespread animus over corruption, it […]

In recent years the Czech Republic has seen the launch of a number of official and private initiatives aimed at counteracting the spread of disinformation or “fake news”. One of the first efforts to systematically debunk false information was Hate Free Culture, which was founded amid the refugee crisis of 2015. Hate Free Culture is […]