On Wednesday 19 October, in the Strasbourg hemicycle of the European Parliament, the President of the Slovak Republic, Zuzana Čaputová, called on European political leaders and citizens to be aware of the fragility of democracy and to defend it relentlessly, otherwise “it will cease to exist”.
Ms Čaputová described the recent homophobic murders in her country as an attack on the whole of Slovak society. “Democracy is the rule of the majority acting in the interest of all, with a...