Denník N: Robert Fico's extremist statements

Our deputy director Martin Michelot commented on the impact of Slovak PM Robert Fico's vulgar statements against reporters, calling them "dirty, anti-Slovak prostitutes".

Our deputy director Martin Michelot commented on the impact of Slovak PM Robert Fico's vulgar statements addressed against reporters, calling them "dirty, anti-Slovak prostitutes". 

Such personal attacks are way more harmful than the exaggerated reactions to questionable news sites incorporating Russian propaganda. Sites that spread lies are successful within weak media awareness and Fico's statements only seem to reinforce the distrust of the people towards the press. which critics describe as being elitist.

Read the whole article in Slovak here. 

Martin Michelot
Senior Associate Research Fellow

Expertise: NATO and transatlantic security, European foreign policy and defense, French politics, elections and society, Visegrad Four and Central Europe, EU institutional issues