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Martin Fabok

Martin Fabok

TASR: We Condemn Murder of Jan Kuciak as Attack on Democracy

TASR: We Condemn Murder of Jan Kuciak as Attack on Democracy

Bratislava, February 26 (TASR) – Young journalist and our former colleague from the Teraz.sk website Jan Kuciak along with his partner Martina Kusnirova have become the victims of premeditated murder in their own house. Such a crime is heinous, incomprehensible and absolutely unacceptable regardless of its motive. If it is

Prime Minister Fico Won't Okay Ratification of Istanbul Convention

Prime Minister Fico Won't Okay Ratification of Istanbul Convention

Bratislava, February 22 (TASR) – Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) won’t grant his consent for the Government to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence if there are obvious and legitimate discrepancies between the content of the Istanbul Convention and Slovakia’

Plan to Revisit Drugs Policy Shelved

Plan to Revisit Drugs Policy Shelved

Bratislava, February 21 (TASR) – A plan to revisit Slovakia’s drugs policy has been postponed, as Justice Minister Lucia Zitnanska (Most-Hid) withdrew her motion to decriminalise the use of so-called hard drugs from Wednesday’s Government session after encountering disapproval from the coalition partners, TASR learnt on the same day.

President Kiska Discusses Austrian-Slovak Ties with Van der Bellen

President Kiska Discusses Austrian-Slovak Ties with Van der Bellen

Vienna/Bratislava, February 19 (TASR-correspondent) – Fomenting even closer bilateral ties, the position of the Visegrad Four (V4) group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia), its perception in Austria and Austrian family benefits were issues discussed by Slovak President Andrej Kiska and his Austrian counterpart Alexander Van der Bellen in

Pellegrini: EU Funds Main Investment Tool in Reducing Disparity

Pellegrini: EU Funds Main Investment Tool in Reducing Disparity

Bratislava, February 15 (TASR) – Almost 85 percent of every euro invested in new EU-member states returns to the old members, Vice-premier for Investments and Informatisation Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) told ambassadors of EU states at a working breakfast, TASR learnt from Vice-premier for Investment and Informatisation’s Office press department on

KDH Ready to Chart Election Cooperation With Opposition

KDH Ready to Chart Election Cooperation With Opposition

Bratislava, February 12 (TASR) – The non-parliamentary Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) harbours aspirations to succeed in this year’s local elections, and in order to pursue that goal it’s ready to cooperate with other Opposition parties, said KDH chair Alojz Hlina after the party’s presidium session on Monday. Hlina

Gajdos: Rest Assured, Defence Ministry Doesn't Serve Russian Interests

Gajdos: Rest Assured, Defence Ministry Doesn't Serve Russian Interests

Bratislava, February 9 (TASR) – Opposition lawmakers can be assured that the Defence Ministry and its administration work to the benefit of the Slovak people and Slovakia and that there can be no other way, said Defence Minister Peter Gajdos (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) during the debate in Parliament