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TIS: Private Companies to Offer Helping Hand to Whistleblowers

TIS: Private Companies to Offer Helping Hand to Whistleblowers

Bratislava, May 21 (TASR) – More than 400 private companies have committed themselves to helping whistleblowers who lose their jobs due to reporting corruption at work, TASR learnt on Monday. The companies have joined the Backing the Bold Ones initiative, which has been launched by Transparency International Slovakia (TIS) in cooperation

Journalists Should Enjoy Special Status, Ministry to Form Working Group

Journalists Should Enjoy Special Status, Ministry to Form Working Group

Bratislava, May 21 (TASR) – The protection provided to journalists when performing their work needs to be strengthened by means of legislation, Culture Minister Lubica Lassakova, representatives of publishing houses and editors-in-chief concurred at a meeting on Monday. “There’s no legally binding definition of the term ‘journalist’ at the moment,

Bugar: Governing Coalition Won't Have Joint Presidential Candidate

Bugar: Governing Coalition Won't Have Joint Presidential Candidate

The current governing coalition probably won’t have a joint presidential candidate, stated chairman of junior governing party Most-Hid Bela Bugar on RTVS’s programme ‘O 5 Minut 12’ (Five Minutes to Twelve) on Sunday, adding that his party will have its own candidate that will be decided on by

Matecna Still Sees No Reason to Leave Post of Agriculture Minister

Matecna Still Sees No Reason to Leave Post of Agriculture Minister

I still see no reason to leave the post of agriculture minister, stated head of the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry Gabriela Matecna (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) on TA3’s programme ‘V politike’ (In Politics) on Sunday, a few days before an extraordinary parliamentary session during which she’

Pellegrini: If Matecna Failed, Evidence Needs to Be Presented

Pellegrini: If Matecna Failed, Evidence Needs to Be Presented

Unfair practices in Slovak agriculture are being squeezed out and many things can’t happen at present which used to happen in the past, with Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Gabriela Matecna (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) to become a symbol of positive changes at the ministry, Prime Minister

Fedor: Slovakia Averted Terror Threat Last Year; Galko: It Was Hoax

Fedor: Slovakia Averted Terror Threat Last Year; Galko: It Was Hoax

Bratislava, May 18 (TASR) – The Slovak secret services averted terror threats in Slovakia last year, said MP for Most-Hid and former defence minister Martin Fedor after a plenary parliamentary session on Friday devoted to reviewing the activities of the Defence Intelligence and Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) last year. “There were

Sefcovic: Quarter of Funds from EU's Future Budget to Go to Climate

Sefcovic: Quarter of Funds from EU's Future Budget to Go to Climate

Bratislava, May 18 (TASR) – Climate change is the number one danger for humanity and, therefore, 25 percent of the EU budget for the following seven years will go towards climate protection, said European Commission Vice-president for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic when addressing the GLOBSEC 2018 Bratislava Forum on Friday. “The