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Marek Antalik

Marek Antalik

President: Anti-Semitism Hasn't Disappeared, Number of Incidents Growing

President: Anti-Semitism Hasn't Disappeared, Number of Incidents Growing

Poprad, March 25 (TASR) – Commemorating the 80th anniversary of the start of the deportation of Jews from Slovakia during WWII, President Zuzana Caputova stated in Poprad (Presov region) on Friday that anti-Semitism hasn’t disappeared from society and the number of anti-Semitic incidents has actually been growing in recent years.

Supreme Court Rejects Appeals of Two SNS Ex-ministers in Notice Board Tender Case

Supreme Court Rejects Appeals of Two SNS Ex-ministers in Notice Board Tender Case

Bratislava, March 24 (TASR) – An appeals senate of the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the appeals of convicted former construction and regional development ministers Marian Janusek and Igor Stefanov, who represented the Slovak National Party (SNS) in Robert Fico’s first government (2006-10), regarding the notice board tender case. Janusek

CoFoE: Europeans Want Europe to Be Global Player, MEPs Pollak and Simecka Concur

CoFoE: Europeans Want Europe to Be Global Player, MEPs Pollak and Simecka Concur

Bratislava, March 24 (TASR) – The Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) shows that citizens want the European Union to play a leading role in the world, MEPs Peter Pollak and Michal Simecka concurred in a discussion on TASR TV on Thursday. European Parliament (EP) Vice-President Simecka said that there

Matovic: Additional €365 million to Flow into Health-care Sector This Year

Matovic: Additional €365 million to Flow into Health-care Sector This Year

Bratislava, March 22 (TASR) – An additional €365 million should flow into the Slovak health-care sector this year, Finance Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO) announced at a news conference on Tuesday. Higher payments for state policyholders should bring in €100 million, and the share capital of state-run health-insurer Vseobecna zdravotna poistovna (VsZP)

Heger: Two Years of Honest and Tough Fight for Slovakia's Integrity

Heger: Two Years of Honest and Tough Fight for Slovakia's Integrity

Bratislava, March 21 (TASR) – This has been the most challenging two years for a government in Slovakia’s modern history, said Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO) when marking the halfway point of the electoral term of the current government, pointing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the preparation of a recovery plan,

CoFoE: SaS Reluctant about Supranational Slates for EU Election

CoFoE: SaS Reluctant about Supranational Slates for EU Election

Bratislava, March 19 (TASR) – Foreign Affairs Ministry State Secretary Martin Klus (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS) is aware of and respects the fact that some European Union (EU) citizens want to see the direct election of European political parties, but SaS is reluctant when it comes to supranational slates. “Considerations concerning

Dutch, Germans to Send Three Patriot Missile Defence Systems to Slovakia

Dutch, Germans to Send Three Patriot Missile Defence Systems to Slovakia

Amsterdam/Bratislava, March 18 (TASR) – The Dutch government on Friday said it would send a Patriot missile defence system to Slovakia, as part of NATO moves to strengthen air defences in Eastern Europe, TASR learnt on Friday. The defence system will be located near the Sliac air base (Banska Bystrica