Politician serving his third term as Slovakia’s PM has navigated successfully between pro-EU positions and fiercely nationalist, anti-western rhetoric

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Robert Fico is a Slovakian politician serving his third term as prime minister of the central European country. On Wednesday, he was shot in the town of Handlová, where he had been meeting supporters, and taken to hospital.