On Monday 12 March, Slovakia's Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák announced his resignation after tens of thousands of Slovaks marched nationwide on Friday 9 March to protest against corruption and to demand Kaliňák's resignation, as well as that of Prime Minister Robert Fico.
These demonstrations were held against the backdrop of the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak at the end of February. Kuciak was investigating corruption linked to the presence of the Calabrian mafia in the...