By Albin Sybera The European Union is considering freezing some EU funds for Slovakia in response to the rule of law backsliding under the incumbent left-right cabinet led by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico, according to media reports. Bloomberg wrote on September 8 that the European Commission could freeze part of the €12.8bn allocated for Slovakia from the EU’s Cohesion funds, referring to its sources in the EC. The EC could also “claw back” the €2.7bn from the COVID-19 Reconstruction funds in response to government changes to the criminal code, which included reducing penalties for corr…