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President Kiska to Fill Remaining Constitutional Court Posts on Thursday

President Kiska to Fill Remaining Constitutional Court Posts on Thursday

Bratislava, December 12 (TASR) – President Andrej Kiska will appoint Mojmir Mamojka, Jana Lassakova and Miroslav Duris as Constitutional Court judges on Thursday (December 14), TASR learnt on Tuesday. Speaking at the Presidential Palace in reaction to a recent verdict of the Constitutional Court, Kiska thus chose to end his longstanding

Fico Lambasts Media for Their Coverage of Corruption

Fico Lambasts Media for Their Coverage of Corruption

Bratislava, December 11 (TASR) – Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) has heaped criticism on the media over what he sees as their failure to cover a declaration by five foreign embassies to mark Saturday’s (December 9) International Day Against Corruption, TASR learnt on Monday. Fico considers it to be scandalous

SaS: Choosing Professional Soldier to Head Defence Ministry Was Error

SaS: Choosing Professional Soldier to Head Defence Ministry Was Error

Bratislava, December 7 (TASR) – Defence Minister Peter Gajdos (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) should have appeared before TV cameras immediately after 11 rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were allegedly stolen from a military warehouse near Trencin and adopted a stance on the incident, said Opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) vice-chair and

Hrnko: Sebej's Take on Foreign Policy Too Black-and-white, Russia No Villain

Hrnko: Sebej's Take on Foreign Policy Too Black-and-white, Russia No Villain

Bratislava, November 18 (TASR) – It was with considerable surprise that representatives of coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) learnt about negative statements by some political “apparatchiks” concerning parliamentary chair Andrej Danko’s (SNS) speech recently delivered at Russian State Duma, SNS vice-chair Anton Hrnko told TASR on Saturday. Hrnko was referring

SMK: Cooperation with OLaNO Open Question, Had One Meeting So Far

SMK: Cooperation with OLaNO Open Question, Had One Meeting So Far

Bratislava, November 18 (TASR) – Potential election cooperation between non-parliamentary ethnic-Hungarian SMK party and opposition OLaNO party is an open question at this stage, SMK chair Jozsef Menyhart told TASR on Saturday. According to Menyhart, everything will be decided in talks, with the compatibility of programmes and goals being the key

Matovic: Time Has Come to Offer Helping Hand to SMK Party

Matovic: Time Has Come to Offer Helping Hand to SMK Party

Bratislava, November 18 (TASR) – The time has come to extend a helping hand to (non-parliamentary) ethnic-Hungarian SMK party and, through the party, also to inhabitants of southern Slovakia [ethnic Hungarian region], opposition OLaNO leader Igor Matovic told TASR on Saturday. Earlier in the week, during the Dennik N discussion Matovic

Ministers Recall November 1989, Underline Importance of Freedom

Ministers Recall November 1989, Underline Importance of Freedom

Bratislava, November 17 (TASR) – Freedom is not to blame for the great number of problems Slovakia has gone through since 1989 and the problems still ahead, it’s rather the manner in which we put that freedom to use sometimes, thinks Justice Minister Lucia Zitnanska (Most-Hid). Along with her fellow