Tim Gosling

The re­cent vote sur­prised many who ex­pect­ed Babis to eas­i­ly win, and there are oth­er hints pop­ulism is wan­ing.

Mi­los Ze­man, who backs the bil­lion­aire pre­mier, has an­nounced he will use his role to ap­point the next PM.

Af­ter po­lice were filmed kneel­ing on a Roma man’s neck, ten­sions be­tween the mar­gin­alised mi­nor­i­ty and state have grown.

Crit­ics say Hun­gary’s planned Fu­dan Uni­ver­si­ty cam­pus is a sign of grow­ing re­liance on Chi­na.

Ex­pats who quit the UK are pleas­ant­ly sur­prised by the pos­i­tive changes that took place dur­ing their ab­sence.

A neo-Nazi Slo­vak MP has been giv­en a prison sen­tence, af­ter Greece and Italy took le­gal mea­sures against the far right.

Ivan Konev en­tered Prague short­ly af­ter the Ger­man sur­ren­der in 1945, while his stat­ue left the city on Fri­day.

In an elec­tion cam­paign fo­cused on ram­pant cor­rup­tion, the re­sult sig­ni­fies a change of course for the small EU mem­ber.

Vot­ers want to clean up Slo­va­kian pol­i­tics, but a pro-democ­ra­cy op­po­si­tion will have to work to­geth­er to un­seat Smer.

Thou­sands mark the sec­ond an­niver­sary of the mur­der of jour­nal­ist Jan Ku­ci­ak and his fi­ancee Mar­ti­na Kus­niro­va.