Respekt: Education may help Czechs avoid Slovak extremists' success

Some of the recipes for avoiding the Slovak election surprise, or the success of the far right extremists of Marian Kotleba, in the Czech Republic include the maintenance of the most open education and investment in teachers, Erik Tabery writes in weekly Respekt out yesterday. He writes that Czechs reacted to the Slovak election result asking whether the Slovaks did not know what was happening in their country, as if the Czechs were convinced that they know well what can be expected in their own country.