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Solymos: In Marrakech We've Proved We Really Mean It with Paris Deal

Solymos: In Marrakech We've Proved We Really Mean It with Paris Deal

Bratislava, November 18 (TASR) – The UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, Morocco has opened up the path towards implementing the Paris Climate Agreement, the Slovak Environment Ministry’s communication department told TASR on Friday. “We’re proud that the EU, with its member states, has succeeded in making the agreement

European Commission Unblocks 4 Operational Programmes for Slovakia

European Commission Unblocks 4 Operational Programmes for Slovakia

Bratislava, November 18 (TASR) – The European Commission (EC) has unblocked four operational programmes that have been suspended for Slovakia, TASR learnt from Office of Vice-premier for Investments and Informatisation Peter Pellegrini on Friday. In particular, these programmes are the Operational Programmes Information Society (OPIS), Research and Development, Health and Welfare

Some 500 People Celebrate November '89 Along with Opposition

Some 500 People Celebrate November '89 Along with Opposition

Bratislava, November 17 (TASR) – Enough of Prime Minister Robert Fico; we didn’t want this; it’s time for a new November – such were the slogans that reverberated at the Slovak National Uprising Square on Thursday. There were around 500 people celebrating November 17, 1989 at an event organised by

White Crow Awarded to Somali Refugee for First Time Ever

White Crow Awarded to Somali Refugee for First Time Ever

Bratislava, November 17 (TASR) – Fair-play Alliance and Via Iuris awarded the White Crow Award for the ninth time on Thursday, TASR learnt on the same day. Created in 2008, the White Crow award is given annually to whistleblowers who challenge unethical or corrupt behaviour at great personal risk or for

Fico: Free-of-charge Train Transport for Students Remains in Place

Fico: Free-of-charge Train Transport for Students Remains in Place

Bratislava, November 17 (TASR) – The free-of-charge train transport will remain in place, said Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) on Thursday after a lunch with university students from around the whole of Slovakia. The premier reported that in the two years since it’s been introduced almost one million people have

TIS: One in Eight Slovak Households Paid Bribe in 2015

TIS: One in Eight Slovak Households Paid Bribe in 2015

Bratislava, November 16 (TASR) – One in eight Slovak households in contact with selected public bodies paid a bribe last year, according to the Global Corruption Barometer carried out by Transparency International among 60,000 people in 42 countries of Europe and Central Asia, TASR learnt on Wednesday. Slovakia was in

Pellegrini: Cohesion Funds Might Be Available Even After 2020

Pellegrini: Cohesion Funds Might Be Available Even After 2020

Brussels, November 16 (TASR-correspondent) – Slovakia believes that European cohesion policies, including cohesion funds, will remain in place even after 2020, said Slovak Vice-premier for Investments and Informatisation Peter Pellegrini after a session of the General Affairs Council for Cohesion in Brussels on Wednesday. At a joint press conference with Commissioner