Robert Fico answers a student's question leftover communist ideals still present in Slovakia.
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Robert Fico highlights that it has only been 24 years since the communist regime was removed from Eastern Europe so you will still find people with communist ideals. Some of the most successful businessmen in Hungary and Slovakia are people who were very active in communist structures before 1989. He admits that there are still communist residues in Slovakian society, however since Slovakia adopted the Euro in January 2009 the country has benefitted from its advantages of being part of a wider socialist economy.
Filmed on Thursday 25th April 2013
ABOUT ROBERT FICO:
First elected to parliament when Czechoslovakia was one country, Robert Fico is the current Prime Minister of Slovakia. Seen as a pragmatist and euro-realist, Fico first led the centre-left to victory in 2006.
He is known for his tense relations with journalists, accusing them of being biased, and admits to a passion for cars and football. Fico's 'Smer' party was re-elected in 2012 after the governing coalition collapsed following a corruption scandal. He became the first person ever to lead a party to an absolute parliamentary majority in modern Slovakia.
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