Construction of a showcase hospital has been halted for three weeks and may lose funds.
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Welcome to your weekly commentary and overview of news from Slovakia. Work on a Prešov hospital that Fico wanted to use as a showcase stopped weeks ago. Fico’s far-right junior coalition partner is playing up – again. The economic growth-boosting measures that refuse to be born.
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Spending defence budget funds on roads and hospitals has become a key plank of the Fico government’s response to the need for readiness in increasingly turbulent times, when war is at the European Union’s doorstep. Not unlike his claims that Slovakia will send “not a single bullet” to Ukraine and that his allies in the European Union are mostly warmongers, the focus is on dual-use projects – Fico’s way to show the Slovak public just how committed to peace their government is.
