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Michaela Kovacova

Michaela Kovacova

Victims of Fight for Freedom Honoured by Commemorating Hristo Botev

Victims of Fight for Freedom Honoured by Commemorating Hristo Botev

Bratislava, June 2 (TASR) – The one who falls in the struggle for freedom does not die, said Bulgarian Ambassador to Slovakia Yordanka Chobanova, recalling the words of Bulgarian poet Hristo Botev during Friday’s ceremony commemorating the heroes who fell in the fight for independence and freedom. In her speech,

Budaj Calls on Youth to Endure and Demand also Abolishment of Corruption

Budaj Calls on Youth to Endure and Demand also Abolishment of Corruption

Bratislava, June 1 (TASR) – Two powers – endurance and the public – have squeezed Vladimir Meciar’s immoral amnesties out of Slovakia and the same two powers will oust corruption from Slovakia, too, OLaNO-NOVA MP Jan Budaj told a news conference in Bratislava on Thursday, adding that this is the main message

TIS: Record Number of People Willing to Report Corruption

TIS: Record Number of People Willing to Report Corruption

Bratislava, May 30 (TASR) – Four in ten Slovaks claim that they would definitely or probably report corruption to the police if they encountered it, which is the highest proportion since Transparency International Slovakia (TIS) began measuring public engagement in the fight against corruption in 2002, according to a recent survey

Fico: Corruption Is Cancer of Society

Fico: Corruption Is Cancer of Society

Presov, May 29 (TASR) – Corruption is the cancer of society, although there is a difference between perception and reality in Slovakia, said Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) during his meeting with teachers from Presov region at the Regional School Office in Presov on Monday. The meeting took place during a

EuroGas Intends to Raise Alleged Attempted Patent Fraud in Arbitration

EuroGas Intends to Raise Alleged Attempted Patent Fraud in Arbitration

Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) – EuroGas, which is in arbitration proceedings with Slovakia concerning the allegedly illegal withdrawal of a licence for talc mining in Gemerska Poloma (Kosice region), claims that it faced attempted patent fraud, EuroGas managing board chairman Wolfgang Rauball told TASR on Friday. EuroGas’s subsidiary Rozmin filed

KDH Sees Fear of LSNS behind Refusal to Publish its Billboard

KDH Sees Fear of LSNS behind Refusal to Publish its Billboard

Bratislava, May 25 (TASR) – The extra-parliamentary Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) wanted to order a billboard featuring the slogan “[far-right] LSNS has been in Parliament already for one year, but it has not managed to do anything there”; however, its publishing has been refused, TASR learnt from KDH spokesman Stano Zupa

Fico: I Hope Estonian EU Presidency Will be Flexible Enough

Fico: I Hope Estonian EU Presidency Will be Flexible Enough

Bratislava, May 22 (TASR) – The Estonian Presidency of the Council of the EU will be highly interested in preserving the unity of the Union, which is incredibly important for its future; but this can be achieved in other ways than by blindly obeying commands and respecting the stronger ones, said