“I strongly condemn the vile attack on Prime Minister Robert Fico,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a post on X. “Such acts of violence have no place in our society and undermine democracy, our most precious common good,” she said.

“Violence must not be existant in European politics,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a post on X on Wednesday, calling the attempt on Fico’s life a “cowardly attack.”

Simon Harris, Ireland’s taoiseach, or prime minister, called…