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NKU: Budgetary Targets Unrealistic, Government Has to Save

NKU: Budgetary Targets Unrealistic, Government Has to Save

Bratislava, October 11 (TASR) – The Supreme Audit Office (NKU) warned the Government about problems with meeting the state-budget targets and the need to prevent the general government deficit and gross debt from increasing, according to NKU’s report on the state of public finance in the first half of 2019.

Pellegrini: There's Pressing Need to Cleanse Judiciary of Crooked Judges

Pellegrini: There's Pressing Need to Cleanse Judiciary of Crooked Judges

Bratislava, October 10 (TASR) – Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) agrees with President Zuzana Caputova’s speech earlier in the day that there’s an exigent need to cleanse the judiciary and noted that it’s up to the community of judges to muster courage and strength to debench those who

President Appoints Remaining Judges of Constitutional Court

President Appoints Remaining Judges of Constitutional Court

Bratislava, October 10 (TASR) – President Zuzana Caputova appointed the remaining judges of the Constitutional Court on Thursday. They are Libor Dula, Ladislav Dudits, Peter Straka, Milos Madar, Martin Vernarsky and Rastislav Kassak as the president announced at a press conference on the same day. The Constitutional Court now isn’t

Judicial Council Commission to Invite Judges Who Had Phones Seized

Judicial Council Commission to Invite Judges Who Had Phones Seized

Bratislava, October 9 (TASR) – A five-member commission set up from members of the Judicial Council will invite to a non-public meeting next Monday (October 14) the judges who reportedly had their phones seized by the National Crime Agency (NAKA) at the end of August, although their participation won’t be

SaS: Matecna's Done Nothing in Post, We'd Give Her Grade of Four Minus

SaS: Matecna's Done Nothing in Post, We'd Give Her Grade of Four Minus

Bratislava, October 8 (TASR) – Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Gabriela Matecna (Slovak National Party/SNS) has done almost nothing in the agriculture sector over the four years, leader of the opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party Richard Sulik said at a press conference on Tuesday, adding that his party would

Members of 'Democratic Core' Leave SaS

Members of 'Democratic Core' Leave SaS

Bratislava, October 9 (TASR) – More members of the so-called Democratic Core platform are leaving opposition’s Freedom and Solidarity, namely party vice-chair Lubomir Galko, MPs Jozef Rajtar, Miroslav Ivan, Vladimir Sloboda, Renata Kascakova, Radoslav Pavelka and party member Pavol Kubis, TASR learnt from their social network posts on Wednesday. “I

Bugar: Most-Hid Might Still Form Election Party with SMK

Bugar: Most-Hid Might Still Form Election Party with SMK

Bratislava, October 8 (TASR) – Most-Hid won’t contest the upcoming parliamentary election in coalition with ethnic-Hungarian SMK, although the idea of having representatives of both parties run on a slate of a special election party like the Slovak Democratic Coalition (SDK) of 1998, which later transformed into SDKU-SD, hasn’t