MEPs reiterated their concerns about the state of the rule of law and media freedom in Slovakia in the course of the plenary session on Thursday, 11 April. During a debate held with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU and European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders, they voiced concern over the direction that the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico, a social democrat, had taken and over the election of Peter Pellegrini to the country’s presidency—an election that...