On Tuesday last week (17 September), Slovakia’s parliament voted to dismiss its deputy speaker, Michal Šimečka, from office. Šimečka, who also leads the country’s largest opposition party, the Renew Europe-affiliated Progressive Slovakia, held the job based on an informal arrangement that gives the opposition a minority share of key parliamentary jobs, including speakership and committee assign...
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Dalibor Rohac is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, and a research associate at the Wilfried Martens Centre in Brussels, the official think-tank of the European People's Party.