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Beblavy's Party Seeks Registration, Submits over 18,000 Signatures

Beblavy's Party Seeks Registration, Submits over 18,000 Signatures

Bratislava, January 11 (TASR) – Fledging party Together-Civic Democracy (SPOLU) has applied for registration, with its founders handing over 18,000 signatures in support of this at the Interior Ministry on Thursday. At least 10,000 signatures are required to register a party. If the party is registered, its founder Miroslav

EuroGas to Claim at Least €8 bn from Slovakia in New Talc Mining Arbitration

EuroGas to Claim at Least €8 bn from Slovakia in New Talc Mining Arbitration

Bratislava, January 11 (TASR) – Within the next two months, the company EuroGas will sue the Slovak Republic again within international arbitration proceedings for the alleged illegal withdrawal of a licence for talc mining in Gemerska Poloma (Kosice region), EuroGas managing board chairman Wolfgang Rauball told TASR on Thursday. The company

Kalinak: We'll Try to Have Kosik Extradited to Slovakia and Make Him Testify

Kalinak: We'll Try to Have Kosik Extradited to Slovakia and Make Him Testify

Bratislava, January 10 (TASR) – Slovakia will attempt to transport former Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) member Lubos Kosik to its soil so that he can give testimony in the case of the 1995 kidnapping of former president Michal Kovac’s son, Interior Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) said on Wednesday. Kalinak spoke

Government Approves Changes in Slovakia's Alien Policy

Government Approves Changes in Slovakia's Alien Policy

Bratislava, January 10 (TASR) – Slovakia is changing the conditions for the entry and residence of foreigners in Slovakia for a period longer than 90 days by adjusting them on the basis of a 2016 EU directive, after an amendment to the law on foreigners’ stay was greenlighted by the Government

Culture Minister Madaric Has Bad Feelings about Situation around RTVS

Culture Minister Madaric Has Bad Feelings about Situation around RTVS

Bratislava, January 10 (TASR) – Culture Minister Marek Madaric (Smer-SD) has a bad feeling about events happening around the public service RTVS in the last couple of days, he said before the Cabinet session on Wednesday. “It started when the Slovak National Party (SNS) leader [Andrej Danko] told us about his

Matecna: Veterinary Care Act Priority of Agriculture Ministry in 2018

Matecna: Veterinary Care Act Priority of Agriculture Ministry in 2018

Bratislava, January 9 (TASR) – The priority for the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry in the sphere of legislation in 2018 will be to pass a Veterinary Care Act, which will bring the protection of animals in Slovakia up to the level of cultured countries, as animals will no longer be

Kiska Has Lunch with Predecessors, Wasn't Asked about Candidacy

Kiska Has Lunch with Predecessors, Wasn't Asked about Candidacy

Bratislava, January 9 (TASR) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska on Tuesday again held the annual New Year presidential lunch with his predecessors Rudolf Schuster and Ivan Gasparovic. All of them praised the tradition of New Year lunches, but this wasn’t the case for the awarding of state honours or Kiska’