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Babis: EU Must Return to Four Freedoms and Remove East-West Division

Babis: EU Must Return to Four Freedoms and Remove East-West Division

Kosice, September 17 (TASR) – The Czech Republic, along with the other Visegrad Four (V4) countries (Hungary, Poland and Slovakia), is interested in seeing the EU working properly, as the Union has secured peace for Europe, but there’s a need to return to its four original freedoms – the free movement

Slovak Ambassador to USA Ivan Korcok Receives Transatlantic Award

Slovak Ambassador to USA Ivan Korcok Receives Transatlantic Award

Ostrava, September 17 (TASR) – Slovak Ambassador to the USA Ivan Korcok received the Czech and Slovak Transatlantic Award on the sidelines of the NATO Days in Ostrava on Sunday (September 16), NGO GLOBSEC has announced on its website. Ian Brzezinski, son of US foreign policy legend Zbigniew Brzezinski, handed over

Tax Office: No Obligation to Pay €302 mn to EU for China Imports

Tax Office: No Obligation to Pay €302 mn to EU for China Imports

Bratislava, September 8 (TASR) – Slovakia’s Financial Administration (tax office) rejects claims that Slovakia should pay €302 million into the EU budget due to customs fraud, the authority’s spokesperson Ivana Skokanova told TASR on Saturday. Skokanova was responding to information reported by Dennik N daily on Friday (September 7)

Foreign Ministry Respects OPCW Findings, Set to Coordinate Stance with UK

Foreign Ministry Respects OPCW Findings, Set to Coordinate Stance with UK

Bratislava, September 5 (TASR) – Foreign and European Affairs Ministry fully accepts and respects findings of the investigation by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which proved that the substance used to poison two individuals at Amesbury in England matches the one employed against ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal

MFA: Slovak Interior Minister's Transport Was Reason for Flyover of Poland

MFA: Slovak Interior Minister's Transport Was Reason for Flyover of Poland

Bratislava, August 31 (TASR) – Transporting the Slovak interior minister and delegation for a working trip to Russia was cited as the official reason in Slovakia’s request for a flyover of its Government plane over Polish territory, reads the Foreign and European Affairs Ministry’s answer to a question raised

Smer: We Won't Succumb to Do-gooders, We Won't Accept Refugees

Smer: We Won't Succumb to Do-gooders, We Won't Accept Refugees

Bratislava, August 29 (TASR) – The recent events in Chemnitz, Germany demonstrate that integrating refugees in society is a demanding and long process with rather uncertain results, the main governing party in Slovakia Smer-SD stated on a social network on Wednesday. “Protests and violence on the streets of this town, in

Korcok in USA Wants to Intensify Relations at Highest Level

Korcok in USA Wants to Intensify Relations at Highest Level

Bratislava, August 28 (TASR) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska on Tuesday handed over credentials to Ivan Korcok, the designated Slovak ambassador to the United States, TASR learnt on the same day. Korcok in the USA wants to protect the interests of both Slovakia and the EU and intensify relations at the