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Parliament Fails to Acknowledge Ombudswoman’s Report for 2019

Parliament Fails to Acknowledge Ombudswoman’s Report for 2019

Bratislava, May 14 (TASR) – The Parliament on Thursday failed to acknowledge the Public Ombudswoman Maria Patakyova’s report for 2019. Fifty law-makers voted against its adoption, while 34 MPs supported it and 46 MPs abstained from the vote. In addition to opposition MPs, the whole We Are Family Caucus and

Matovic: People in State Quarantine Can't Prove They Were Infected There

Matovic: People in State Quarantine Can't Prove They Were Infected There

Bratislava, May 14 (TASR) – There’s no evidence to back some people’s complaints that they were infected with the novel coronavirus in state quarantine facilities, where they were mandatorily placed after entering Slovakia, said Prime Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNo) during Question Time in Parliament on Thursday. Matovic was responding

Smer MPs Podmanicky & Kery Push for Bill to Close Shops on Sundays

Smer MPs Podmanicky & Kery Push for Bill to Close Shops on Sundays

Bratislava, May 14 (TASR) – Opposition Smer-SD MPs Jan Podmanicky and Marian Kery on Thursday announced that they’ll soon approach governing coalition law-makers to gain support for a bill to ban sales in shops on Sundays. If governing MPs refuse to join the initiative, the two Smer figures want to

Lucansky Vexed That Vadala's Phone Wasn't Properly Analysed in 2018

Lucansky Vexed That Vadala's Phone Wasn't Properly Analysed in 2018

Bratislava, May 14 (TASR) – Police Corps President Milan Lucansky has expressed his dismay at the fact that an elite police team didn’t properly analyse the mobile phone of Italian drug-trafficker Antonino Vadala when it seized the device in 2018 shortly after the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak, the police

Constitutional Court Suspends Force of Part of Telecommunications Act

Constitutional Court Suspends Force of Part of Telecommunications Act

Kosice, May 13 (TASR) – The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday to suspend the effectiveness of part of the amendment to the Telecommunications Act, which in connection with the novel coronavirus outbreak enabled access by the Public Health Authority (UVZ) to data from telecommunications operators, TASR learnt on Wednesday. The court’

Mamojka Resigns as Constitutional Court Judge

Mamojka Resigns as Constitutional Court Judge

Kosice, May 13 (TASR) – Constitutional Court judge Mojmir Mamojka is giving up his post, the Constitutional Court Office announced on Wednesday, adding that Constitutional Court chairman Ivan Fiacan will comment on the matter for journalists in the afternoon. Fiacan was considering whether or not to file a proposal to launch

Police Fine Man €1,000 for Refusing to Put On Face Mask in Car in Bratislava

Police Fine Man €1,000 for Refusing to Put On Face Mask in Car in Bratislava

Bratislava, May 12 (TASR) – The police fined a man €1,000 for not heeding their call to put on a face mask in a car stopped for a road check in Bratislava in the wee hours of Tuesday, it was reported on the police’s Facebook page on the same