Albin Sybera

Author, analyst, former clerk @SFZP_cr, ex-Contributing Editor @VisegradInsight, reporter @bneintellinews, commentator @Blisty, consultant 🇪🇺🇺🇦

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

Radical @populist cabinet of @AndrejBabis is whipping up nationalism and anti-German hatred and confirms its branding as the most right wing cabinet in #Czech history since WWII

[Visegrad Insight @VisegradInsight]

'Babiš lets the far right and Kremlin-sympathising SPD party radicalise mainstream political discourse in the country' – @ASybera. The Sudeten German Congress in Brno this week was meant to mark a quiet milestone in reconciliation. Instead it exposed the rising radicalisation of the Babiš cabinet. https://t.co/DNYKjDSIkN

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

The never ending story of struggles over the control of the largest Slovak commercial TV Markiza appears to take another turn after the richest #Czech and owner of Czechoslovak Group Michal Strnad is said to talk to PPF about Markiza sale #Slovak #media

https://t.co/tAQTKza6ny

[Visegrad Insight @VisegradInsight]

When @dennikN announced in mid‑February that it acquired @euobs, the news came as a surprise. It is an exceptional story that contrasts with MAGA‑aligned @ParamountPics taking over control of @wbd and the Polish liberal @tvn24. https://t.co/rkcS3fNdAT

[Pavel Havlicek @Pavel_Havlicek_]

With @ASybera, we discussed the changing political climate in our country of #Czechia and the discourse, particularly on the civic space and the role of #NGOs.

Unfortunately, this is happening before the GOV even took office.

https://t.co/xZRByjLena

Via @BalkanInsight @AMO_cz

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

#Slovak #populist PM Fico could already be gearing up for early elections & his slamming of #EU in wake of #Russian gas phase-out + push to enshrine two genders in SK constitution are welcome topics to keep his electorate mobilized & in campaign mode

https://t.co/YO93hGdsGd

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

@VisegradInsight @blisty

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

#Kafka-like week in former #Czechoslovakia comes to an end with an unprecedented scandal #bitcoin donation from a drug dealer to CZ justice ministry spreading to finance resort after its leader @Zbynek_Stanjura admits he knew about the fishy donation https://t.co/HleX97Evfi

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

+SK parliament managed to pass a resolution against #EU sanctions on #Russia thanks to bodged attempt of opposition to boycott it, leaving even #Kremlin cheering #Slovak ministers unsure what to do about it - what’s so hard to understand about CZ&SK? 😎🍻 https://t.co/8tjqSbpIH0

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

Many thanks for comments @Pavel_Havlicek_ @jana_juzova @JitkaAdamcikova @OndrejKopecny and others! Also very grateful that after some time I managed to compile a text on Czech affairs where quoted females are a majority

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

Staffers at #Czech NGOs report increasing aggressive rhetoric against the sector as surge of #populist parties in Czech election campaign collides with cuts in #US-linked funding.

[Visegrad Insight @VisegradInsight]

🇨🇿Czech populist parties are gaining ground as NGOs lose support.

Click the link in the 🧵to read @ASybera's analysis of CZ civil society⤵️

@ainayeh @_MJakubowska @GuzVetterEU @VeruVichova

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

@realDonaldTrump already weakened popular support of his illiberal fans in #Czechia, #Slovakia or #Hungary with his tariffs Latest Media Freedom Poll shows that #CentralEuropeans also oppose Trumpist ideas of unregulated stream of hatred on social networks
https://t.co/kS8krRopko

[Visegrad Insight @VisegradInsight]

How to defend democracy in Czechia and Slovakia?
Join Eva Mihočková, @ASybera, and @GalanDall
on April 1 at 3:00 PM CEST on Zoom! 🇸🇰🇨🇿

[LINK IN THE COMMENT]

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

My wrap up of the brewing #manipulation and #disinformation cocktail spilling over public media, EU and green policies ahead of the #CZ elections which could bring #populist #oligarch Andrej Babiš back to power @VisegradInsight

[Visegrad Insight @VisegradInsight]

🇨🇿🗳️Czech elections face disinfo blitz – Security agencies warn of foreign influence, but the bigger challenge comes from domestic actors amplifying conspiracies and attacking public media.

Click to read @ASybera's breakdown⤵️

https://t.co/KHkJwNLPPk

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

In another twist of irony it’s only #Czech voters of #communist-led Stačilo! list which unanimously back Trump administration’s decision to end the #USA military support of #Ukraine

https://t.co/BiKU77ec8e

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

https://t.co/QGCT4dmLOF

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

#Slovak populist PM Fico shared a pic with Musk on his #Facebook whom he got to meet after using similar sweet talking strategies as when he begged for weeks for an invite to #Kremlin. With Elon it took only days of praising the dismantling of USAID

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

Amid Grenell’s & Musk’s calls to dismantle RFE/RL & VOA as ���left wing radical” it felt almost forgotten that the broadcasters have long enjoyed the backing of GOP: I collected comments from former journalists reflecting on their past with RFE/RL & narratives disseminated by Musk

[Visegrad Insight @VisegradInsight]

📻📰 Musk’s call to shut down @RFERL dismisses a broadcaster that has countered authoritarian propaganda for decades. The EU must defend its media freedom.

Read the latest by @ASybera 👇
https://t.co/oHYGQ3EVrB

[Visegrad Insight @VisegradInsight]

🇸🇰 #Fico’s government is escalating attacks on critics, discrediting civil society and legitimising extremist voices, writes Eva Mihočková.

📝 What can the EU do to counter #disinformation from domestic actors? Click to read ⤵️
https://t.co/L9Z3pZhj2h

@ASybera @MarcoNemethEN @mysliar #Slovakia

[Albin Sybera @ASybera]

Slovakia’s pro #Kremlin PM Fico calls on his fellow social media #tech #nationalist Musk to share with him information about USAID activities in #Slovakia, building on his previous #conspiracies and allegations of “coup” against his fragmented government

https://t.co/QGCT4dmLOF

[Visegrad Insight @VisegradInsight]

🎙️ The Beginning of the End for Robert Fico? Click here to listen to our latest podcast ➡️ https://t.co/iOiSI52AKX 🇸🇰

Joined by special guests @BalogovaBeata, Editor-in-Chief of SME Daily, and @rastokuzel, Executive Director at MEMO 98, this episode dives into the protests that swept across Slovakia last week and what to expect next.

Is this the beginning of the end for Fico? @terenzanim @KandrikMatej @ASybera @MatejSimalcik @wprzybylski @staskaleta