In this week’s podcast, the TWiCE team talks to Tim Gosling, BIRN’s Prague correspondent, who discusses how life is getting awfully confusing for your average Czech anti-system conspiracy theorist and bigot, as the aftermath of a murder in Brno last weekend illustrates.
In other news, a Republican senator blocks US arms sale to Hungary for stalling Sweden’s NATO bid; Slovakia’s caretaker government fails to win a confidence vote, but will stay in office with reduced powers until the autumn election; and Polish women take to the streets again to protest abortion laws following the tragic death in hospital of another pregnant women.
To read more about these and other stories from the region this week, go to www.balkaninsight.com/reporting-democracy and click on the weekly Democracy Digest.