Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico has instructed all of the government’s ministries to provide a detailed list showing which non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and foundations have received grants and funds in the past one-and-a-half years—the period during which Fico’s sovereignist Smer party has been in power.
The prime minister’s call for action follows a wave of protests against his government organised by globalist organisations. Fico believes that the liberal Europhile opposition is attempting to oust his democratically elected administration— helped by foreign-funded NGOs.
Fico’s government has been a target of the European Union’s liberal elites for espousing an EU-critical foreign policy, a tough anti-immigration stance, and for rejecting woke ideologies. Naturally, Brussels has not been shy of declaring its support for the Slovak opposition.
As the new U.S. administration led by President Donald Trump recently exposed the United States’ main aid agency, USAID as spreading globalist progressivism abroad and working to undermine elected governments not favoured by the previous, liberal Washington administration, Fico’s concerns are legitimate.
The Slovak prime minister recently asked U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, the head of the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to provide information on how USAID funds were used to “deform the political system” in Slovakia to “favour certain political parties.”
Opposition leader Michal Šimečka, head of the Progressive Slovakia party, criticised the prime minister for requesting the list of NGOs, saying that these organisations have “long filled the gaps left by Fico’s governments, caring for the elderly, sick, abused women, educating young people, and protecting nature, freedom, and democracy.”
Fico responded by stating that Šimečka’s father, mother, and partner are “prime examples of how one can profit from NGO.” The prime minister added that an NGO led by Šimečka’s mother received €314,000 from Slovak grant schemes in the past four years.
