Slovak court lifts ban on right-wing extremists

The Supreme Court of Slovakia has granted an appeal by the right-wing extremist group Slovenská Pospolitosť (Slovak Togetherness) against the move to ban it by the country's minister of the interior, basing the ruling on formal mistakes in the banning process. The liberal daily Sme comments: "On November 12 of last year Ferenc Gyurcsány, the Hungarian prime minister at the time, suggested a meeting to [the Slovak head of government] Robert Fico. One day later [the Slovak Minister of the Interior Robert] Kaliňák banned Pospolitosť. Then on November 15 Fico boasted in Komárno about how harshly his government was dealing with extremists, and demanded the same of Budapest. ... The ban had its media impact. But the lifting of the ban will also have an impact - the contrary one."

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