“Alarm bells went off when Šimkovičová took over the culture portfolio last autumn,” said Albin Sybera, a fellow of the central European policy thinktank Visegrad Insight. “What we saw again last week is that those fears were not unfounded. We are seeing a spreading of radical rightwing positions into Slovakia’s mainstream discourse.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/10/slovakia-purges-heads-of-national-theatre-and-gallery-in-arts-crackdown