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SaS: Has Fico Okayed Mandatory Refugee Quotas?

SaS: Has Fico Okayed Mandatory Refugee Quotas?

Bratislava, April 1 (TASR) – Prime Minister Robert Fico should state clearly how Syrian refugees that the EU is supposed to accept from Turkey in exchange for economic migrants will be distributed among individual countries, said Opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) MP Martin Klus on Friday. Klus also asked whether Fico

SaS: Former NCZI Chief Suspect of Crime Involving €18 million

SaS: Former NCZI Chief Suspect of Crime Involving €18 million

Bratislava, March 31 (TASR) – Former director of the National Centre of Health Information (NCZI) Igor Servacek could have committed a crime involving a contract worth almost €18 million on the delivery of an information system for chip insurance cards, Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) stated on Thursday. New Health Minister Tomas

RegioJet Train Leaves Poprad Station Late Due to Bomb Scare

RegioJet Train Leaves Poprad Station Late Due to Bomb Scare

Poprad, March 31 (TASR) – The bomb alert on a RegioJet express train heading from Prague to Kosice at the Poprad railway station on Thursday turned out to be a hoax, Presov Fire and Rescue Corps operation centre told TASR on Thursday. “The hold-up and subsequent lengthy scanning of the train

Hungarian Court Sentences 'Rat' to Life Imprisonment

Hungarian Court Sentences 'Rat' to Life Imprisonment

Budapest, March 31 (TASR – correspondent) – Slovak national Jozef R., nicknamed Potkan (Rat), received a life sentence from a Hungarian Court on Thursday for a bomb attack carried out in Budapest in 1988 and two murders committed in the same city in 1998, TASR learnt on the same day. According to

Health-care Sector Needs Additional €95m, ANS Tells New Minister

Health-care Sector Needs Additional €95m, ANS Tells New Minister

Bratislava, March 31 (TASR) – Dozens of small and medium-sized hospitals believe that an additional €95 million would be necessary for the health-care sector to become stable, said president of the Slovak Hospitals Association (ANS) Marian Petko on Thursday following his working meeting with new Health Minister Tomas Drucker (a Smer-SD

Cabinet Allocates €2.5m for City of Martin in Forced Administration

Cabinet Allocates €2.5m for City of Martin in Forced Administration

Bratislava, March 30 (TASR) – Financial assistance of €2.5 million will be provided to the city of Martin (Zilina region). It’s the first budgetary measure adopted by the new Government at its first session on Wednesday. The Finance Ministry introduced forced administration on the City of Martin last Thursday

Court Gives Life Sentence to "the Bucket" and Fellow Partners-in-Crime

Court Gives Life Sentence to "the Bucket" and Fellow Partners-in-Crime

Banska Bystrica, March 30 (TASR) – The kingpin of the Bratislava ‘Sykorovci’ gang Robert Lalis nicknamed Kybel (Bucket) received a life sentence from the Specialised Criminal Court in Banska Bystrica on Wednesday. Life sentence was given also to Jozef Rohac nicknamed Potkan (Rat), who is currently held in custody in Hungary,