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Hlohovec Hosts Far-right LSNS Rally and Anti-protest, No Incidents Occur

Hlohovec Hosts Far-right LSNS Rally and Anti-protest, No Incidents Occur

Hlohovec, May 17 (TASR) – Hlohovec, a small town of 21,508 located in Trnava region, bore witness to two protests taking place at the opposite sides of a town square on Friday, as the far-right People’s Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) held a protest rally only some 15 metres away

Premier Pellegrini Criticises European Committee Chair for Anti-EU Remarks

Premier Pellegrini Criticises European Committee Chair for Anti-EU Remarks

Bratislava, May 16 (TASR) – Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini urges House European Affairs Committee chair and fellow Smer-SD member Lubos Blaha to refrain from his anti-European statements on a social network, with the majority of lawmakers on the committee praising Pellegrini for this stance, TASR learnt on Thursday. “A European affairs

Contamination Endangering Health Not Confirmed on D4/R7 Construction

Contamination Endangering Health Not Confirmed on D4/R7 Construction

Bratislava, May 16 (TASR) – Tests of soil in the embankments of the emerging Bratislava zero bypass, the D4 motorway and the R7 expressway, did not confirm contamination that would endanger human health, TASR learnt from the Transport and Construction Ministry on Thursday, adding that, however, an analysis showed that materials

Premier: Government Will Probably Nominate Sefcovic to EC Again

Premier: Government Will Probably Nominate Sefcovic to EC Again

Bratislava, May 16 (TASR) – The Slovak Government will probably nominate incumbent EC Vice-president Maros Sefcovic to the European Commission (EC) again, Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) said at a session of the parliamentary European committee on Thursday, adding that he would like Sefcovic to become an EC vice-president again. “I

Exhibition Devoted to Chiari Kicks Off 'Dolce Vitaj' Festival of Italian Culture

Exhibition Devoted to Chiari Kicks Off 'Dolce Vitaj' Festival of Italian Culture

Bratislava, May 16 (TASR) – The twelfth ‘Dolce Vitaj’ annual festival of Italian culture in Slovakia will be kicked off on Thursday by an exhibition devoted to Avant-Garde Florentine conceptual artist and experimental musician Giuseppe Chiari (1926-2007). “An exhibition of items from a collection of Carlo Palli in Prata will be

Stromcek Rejects Media Speculation on Causes of Resignation

Stromcek Rejects Media Speculation on Causes of Resignation

Trebisov/Bratislava, May 5 (TASR) – Viktor Stromcek, a former deputy transport minister and Government representative for major investments, asked the Smer-SD party to release him from the post of its general manager at a party presidium session last week, while the Smer top body didn’t discuss his possible successor,

Bugar: State Can't Penalise People for Singing Foreign Anthems Anymore

Bugar: State Can't Penalise People for Singing Foreign Anthems Anymore

Bratislava, May 15 (TASR) – The fact that singing of a foreign anthem in Slovakia can no longer be penalised is now unequivocally incorporated in the law, Most-Hid MP Tibor Bastrnak stated after the House greenlighted on Wednesday an amending proposal to the State Symbol Act in order to rectify the