Federal Housing Finance Agency director Bill Pulte announced that lenders may start using VantageScore, a rival to the Fair Isaac Corporation, the company behind the widely recognized FICO score, to ...

Since his return to power in 2023, Prime Minister Robert Fico has implemented measures to exert control over the media in Slovakia. Since years, Fico expresses contempt for press freedom, frequently ...

Nevertheless, AI is not the only root of the problems plaguing Malaysia’s media landscape. It lies in decades of authoritarian media control, opaque ownership structures, and legal harassment and ...

Fico’s leadership is marked by increasingly authoritarian tendencies, including tight control over central institutions and a foreign policy that is strongly aligned with Russia and China. Civil ...

IDEAS What the Democrats can learn from Slovakia The country’s opposition party is fighting to slow down its own would-be authoritarian. And it is winning.

Slovakia at 'critical crossroads' as months of protest threaten pro-Moscow Fico People take part in an anti-government protest on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Stasselová said Fico’s goal was to "weaken the rule of law, control the media, and marginalise the opposition so that he can govern without real oversight".

Orbán and Fico look to derail European unity on Ukraine ahead of London summit Hungary and Slovakia call for direct talks with Russia and energy concessions, pushing a stance that could weaken EU ...

This is evident in the case of Fico, who is supported by an oligarchic network, or in Hungary’s media landscape, where Orbán has taken control of the news. A similar dynamic can be seen in the backing ...

Czech opposition leader Andrej Babis hopes to return to power this fall. High on his agenda would be his plan to bring public media under state control — taking inspiration from neighboring ...

They accuse Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico of doing essentially the same thing: adopting authoritarian and corrupt methods of governance typical of ...