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By Albin Sybera For the past two months Slovak opposition parties and protesters have been trying to block sweeping changes to the country’s criminal justice system proposed by the new left-right populist government of Prime Minister Robert Fico. Following the legislation’s final approval by parliament earlier this month and its reluctant signing by liberal President Zuzana Caputova last week, attention is now switching to the country’s Constitutional Court and Brussels. The opposition views the package as simply a “get out of jail” card for Fico and his party members and oligarchs, who were c…

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