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By Robert Anderson in Prague Slovak premier Robert Fico’s populist left-right government is freeing supporters convicted of corruption and hampering any future graft investigations by abolishing a special anti-corruption police unit. The European Commission, which is in the middle of a changeover, says it is watching developments. Any hopes that May’s assassination attempt on the Smer party founder might make him take a break this summer and reconsider any further polarisation of the political scene have been shown to be naive. Instead Fico has blamed the opposition for creating the polarisati…

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