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Sulik: Fico's Insistence on Slovakia Joining EU's Core Dangerous

Sulik: Fico's Insistence on Slovakia Joining EU's Core Dangerous

Bratislava, June 6 (TASR) – Slovakia most certainly shouldn’t strive to be in the A class of EU-member countries as insisted on by Prime Minister Robert Fico, who hasn’t said what commitments this should involve, said MEP and leader of Slovak parliamentary Opposition party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) Richard

Fico: Eurozone Should be Closer-knit, Slovakia Aims to Be in Its Core

Fico: Eurozone Should be Closer-knit, Slovakia Aims to Be in Its Core

Bratislava, June 2 (TASR) – The eurozone should be even more united internally and Slovakia wants to be part of its core, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) said after a Solidarity and Development Council (RSR) session in Bratislava on Friday. The meeting involved a discussion on Slovakia’s position in the

Victims of Fight for Freedom Honoured by Commemorating Hristo Botev

Victims of Fight for Freedom Honoured by Commemorating Hristo Botev

Bratislava, June 2 (TASR) – The one who falls in the struggle for freedom does not die, said Bulgarian Ambassador to Slovakia Yordanka Chobanova, recalling the words of Bulgarian poet Hristo Botev during Friday’s ceremony commemorating the heroes who fell in the fight for independence and freedom. In her speech,

Tusk: Considerations on End of West and EU Overblown

Tusk: Considerations on End of West and EU Overblown

Bratislava, May 28 (TASR) – European Council President Donald Tusk, speaking as part of a panel entitled “European (Dis)Union” at the GLOBSEC conference in Bratislava on Sunday, rejected considerations that the fall of the West is allegedly taking place. “These considerations are overblown, I can’t accept the notion of

Fico: EU Doesn't Need Plan B, It Just Needs Better Communication

Fico: EU Doesn't Need Plan B, It Just Needs Better Communication

Bratislava, May 28 (TASR) – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) stated at the GLOBSEC international security conference in Bratislava on Sunday that the EU “doesn’t need a plan B, while in fact it needs normal open debate”. Fico was speaking as part of a debate panel entitled “European (Dis)

Paska: I Don't Understand Lajcak's Endorsement of Turkey's EU Bid

Paska: I Don't Understand Lajcak's Endorsement of Turkey's EU Bid

Bratislava, May 27 (TASR) – Vice-chairman of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee Jaroslav Paska, serving for the co-governing Slovak National Party (SNS), on Saturday criticised Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak’s endorsement of Turkey’s ambitions to join the EU. “I don’t understand this statement made by the

Valasek: Slovakia's Dispatching of Soldiers to Baltic Isn't Favour to Allies

Valasek: Slovakia's Dispatching of Soldiers to Baltic Isn't Favour to Allies

Bratislava, May 27 (TASR) – Slovakia’s participation in NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence in the Baltic is important as a boosting element for NATO’s unity vis-a-vis the North Atlantic Treaty’s Article 5, former Slovakia’s permanent representative to NATO and current Carnegie Europe director Tomas Valasek has told