lovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a serious but stable condition after the populist leader was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that shook the small country and reverberated across the continent weeks before European elections.A suspect is in custody, and interior minister Matus Sutaj Estok said that an initial investigation found "a clear political motivation" behind the attack on Mr Fico while he was attending a government meeting in a former coal mining town.Mr Fico has lo

lovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a serious but stable condition after the populist leader was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that shook the small country and reverberated across the continent weeks before European elections.A suspect is in custody, and interior minister Matus Sutaj Estok said that an initial investigation found "a clear political motivation" behind the attack on Mr Fico while he was attending a government meeting in a former coal mining town.Mr Fico has long been a divisive figure in Slovakia and beyond, and his return to power last year on a pro-Russian, anti-American message led to even greater worries among fellow European Union members that he would abandon his country's pro-Western course.