{"id":5158,"date":"2024-10-16T15:10:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T15:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/veranstaltung\/wohin-drftet-die-slowakei"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:18:57","slug":"where-does-slovakia-go","status":"publish","type":"kreisky_event","link":"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/veranstaltung\/wohin-drftet-die-slowakei","title":{"rendered":"WHERE IS SLOVAKIA DRIFTING TOWARDS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Robert Misik in conversation with Michal Hvoreck\u00fd and Anna Durnova<\/h4>\n<h4>WHERE IS SLOVAKIA DRIFTING TOWARDS?<\/h4>\n<p><em><strong>The author Michal Hvoreck\u00fd on authoritarianism in our neighbouring country<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Michal Hvoreck\u00fd is one of Slovakia's leading contemporary novelists and essayists - and at the same time one of the most courageous voices in democratic and liberal civil society. The author, who lives in Bratislava, repeatedly speaks out against the authoritarian course of Robert Fico's government, whose nationalist-populist SMER party has been ruling in a coalition with the far-right \u201eSlovak National Party\u201c for around a year. Our neighbouring country is being restructured in an \u201eOrbanist\u201c style, public broadcasting is being smashed and art institutions such as the Slovak National Theatre are being stripped of their management in a coup d'\u00e9tat. After Hvoreck\u00fd called Culture Minister Martina \u0160imkovi\u010dov\u00e1 a \u201eneo-fascist\u201c, she sued him for \u201edefamation\u201c, an offence punishable by up to five years in prison in Slovakia. What is happening in Slovakia is an \u201eabsolute catastrophe\u201c, says Hvoreck\u00fd. \u201eThe SNS is not just a nationalist party, it represents a nationalist ideology, stands for conspiracy myths and sympathises with Putin.\u201c As a novelist, Hvoreck\u00fd sensed the authoritarian dangers early on, for example in his book \u201eTrol\u201c, a dystopia about how troll armies on the internet poison entire societies. Prime Minister Fico labelled him a \u201etroublemaker and rioter\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Durnov\u00e1, a Viennese sociology professor with Czech roots, comments on Slovakia's drift from a broader Central and Eastern European perspective. Is Central Europe - including Hungary, Slovakia and, to a certain extent, Austria - a hotbed of authoritarian temptations and a \u201epolitics of fear\u201c?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michal Hvoreck\u00fd<\/strong>, Slovakian writer and journalist<br \/>\n<strong>Anna Durnova<\/strong>, Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna<\/p>\n<p>Moderation<br \/>\n<strong>Robert Misik<\/strong>, Author and journalist<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Misik im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Michal Hvoreck\u00fd und Anna Durnova WOHIN DRIFTET DIE SLOWAKEI? Der Autor Michal Hvoreck\u00fd \u00fcber den Autoritarismus in unserem Nachbarland &nbsp; Michal Hvoreck\u00fd ist einer der f\u00fchrenden slowakischen Romanciers und Essayisten der Gegenwart \u2013 und zugleich eine der mutigsten Stimmen der demokratischen und liberalen Zivilgesellschaft. Immer wieder erhebt der in Bratislava [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5160,"template":"","format":[29],"meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"schwerpunkt":[38],"class_list":["post-5158","kreisky_event","type-kreisky_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","schwerpunkt-demokratie-diversitaet-und-zusammenhalt","format-podiumsdiskussion"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WOHIN DRIFTET DIE SLOWAKEI? - Kreisky Forum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kreisky-forum.org\/en\/event\/where-does-slovakia-go\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WOHIN DRIFTET DIE SLOWAKEI? - Kreisky Forum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Robert Misik im Gespr\u00e4ch mit Michal Hvoreck\u00fd und Anna Durnova WOHIN DRIFTET DIE SLOWAKEI? 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