Author, analyst, former clerk @SFZP_cr, ex-Contributing Editor @VisegradInsight, reporter @bneintellinews, commentator @Blisty, consultant 🇪🇺🇺🇦
Ljubljana Slo, Prague CZ
Joined September 2018
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One of toxic outcomes of the billionaire Babiš-led government, which combines #business #populism of his ANO with far right racism of SPD and Trumpist neofascist phantasmagories of antigreen Motorists, is its overhaul of successful #Czech antidrug policies intellinews.com/radical-over…
Radical @populist cabinet of @AndrejBabis is whipping up nationalism and anti-German hatred and confirms its branding as the most right wing cabinet in #Czech history since WWII
'Babiš lets the far right and Kremlin-sympathising SPD party radicalise mainstream political discourse in the country' – @ASybera. The Sudeten German Congress in Brno this week was meant to mark a quiet milestone in reconciliation. Instead it exposed the rising radicalisation of the Babiš cabinet. shorturl.at/oII6R
The never ending story of struggles over the control of the largest Slovak commercial TV Markiza appears to take another turn after the richest #Czech and owner of Czechoslovak Group Michal Strnad is said to talk to PPF about Markiza sale #Slovak #media
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When @dennikN announced in mid‑February that it acquired @euobs, the news came as a surprise. It is an exceptional story that contrasts with MAGA‑aligned @ParamountPics taking over control of @wbd and the Polish liberal @tvn24. shorturl.at/b1e04
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With @ASybera, we discussed the changing political climate in our country of #Czechia and the discourse, particularly on the civic space and the role of #NGOs.
Unfortunately, this is happening before the GOV even took office.
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Via @BalkanInsight @AMO_cz
#Slovak #populist PM Fico could already be gearing up for early elections & his slamming of #EU in wake of #Russian gas phase-out + push to enshrine two genders in SK constitution are welcome topics to keep his electorate mobilized & in campaign mode
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+SK parliament managed to pass a resolution against #EU sanctions on #Russia thanks to bodged attempt of opposition to boycott it, leaving even #Kremlin cheering #Slovak ministers unsure what to do about it - what’s so hard to understand about CZ&SK? 😎🍻 intellinews.com/slovak-parli…
#Kafka-like week in former #Czechoslovakia comes to an end with an unprecedented scandal #bitcoin donation from a drug dealer to CZ justice ministry spreading to finance resort after its leader @Zbynek_Stanjura admits he knew about the fishy donation intellinews.com/czech-financ…
Many thanks for comments @Pavel_Havlicek_ @jana_juzova @JitkaAdamcikova @OndrejKopecny and others! Also very grateful that after some time I managed to compile a text on Czech affairs where quoted females are a majority
Staffers at #Czech NGOs report increasing aggressive rhetoric against the sector as surge of #populist parties in Czech election campaign collides with cuts in #US-linked funding.
🇨🇿Czech populist parties are gaining ground as NGOs lose support.
Click the link in the 🧵to read @ASybera's analysis of CZ civil society⤵️
@ainayeh @_MJakubowska @GuzVetterEU @VeruVichova
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How to defend democracy in Czechia and Slovakia?
Join Eva Mihočková, @ASybera, and @GalanDall
on April 1 at 3:00 PM CEST on Zoom! 🇸🇰🇨🇿
[LINK IN THE COMMENT]
My wrap up of the brewing #manipulation and #disinformation cocktail spilling over public media, EU and green policies ahead of the #CZ elections which could bring #populist #oligarch Andrej Babiš back to power @VisegradInsight
🇨🇿🗳️Czech elections face disinfo blitz – Security agencies warn of foreign influence, but the bigger challenge comes from domestic actors amplifying conspiracies and attacking public media.
Click to read @ASybera's breakdown⤵️
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In another twist of irony it’s only #Czech voters of #communist-led Stačilo! list which unanimously back Trump administration’s decision to end the #USA military support of #Ukraine
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Amid Grenell’s & Musk’s calls to dismantle RFE/RL & VOA as “left wing radical” it felt almost forgotten that the broadcasters have long enjoyed the backing of GOP: I collected comments from former journalists reflecting on their past with RFE/RL & narratives disseminated by Musk
📻📰 Musk’s call to shut down @RFERL dismisses a broadcaster that has countered authoritarian propaganda for decades. The EU must defend its media freedom.
Read the latest by @ASybera 👇
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🇸🇰 #Fico’s government is escalating attacks on critics, discrediting civil society and legitimising extremist voices, writes Eva Mihočková.
📝 What can the EU do to counter #disinformation from domestic actors? Click to read ⤵️
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@ASybera @MarcoNemethEN @mysliar #Slovakia
Slovakia’s pro #Kremlin PM Fico calls on his fellow social media #tech #nationalist Musk to share with him information about USAID activities in #Slovakia, building on his previous #conspiracies and allegations of “coup” against his fragmented government
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