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President Kiska Arrives in Budapest to Meet Hungarian President Ader

President Kiska Arrives in Budapest to Meet Hungarian President Ader

Budapest, December 5 (TASR-correspondent) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska on Monday arrived for an official visit to Hungary to meet with its President Janos Ader. Apart from negotiations with the Hungarian President, Kiska is also set to meet Hungary’s Parliamentary Chairman Laszlo Kover and Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Meeting with

Danko: V4 Group News Agencies to Report More on Governments' Steps

Danko: V4 Group News Agencies to Report More on Governments' Steps

Przemysl/Bratislava, December 4 (TASR-correspondent) – The Visegrad Four (V4) countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) will cooperate more closely, exchange information more intensively and seek to unify their policies so that people can see that their everyday problems are being addressed, concurred the V4 parliamentary chairs at an

Pellegrini: WIFI4EU Should Provide Free-of-charge Internet for All

Pellegrini: WIFI4EU Should Provide Free-of-charge Internet for All

Brussels, December 2 (TASR-correspondent) – Slovakia’s Presidency of the Council of the EU has succeeded in just two months in coming to an EU-wide agreement on the WIFI4EU programme, whose aim is to provide free-of-charge access to high-speed internet in towns and cities of EU-member states, Deputy Prime Minister for

Lajcak Nominated for Post of President of UN General Assembly

Lajcak Nominated for Post of President of UN General Assembly

Bratislava, November 30 (TASR) – Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak is probably on track to become the president of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly, TASR learnt on Wednesday. Lajcak announced his nomination for the UN post after the Government session on the same day. Slovakia

Gov't Okays Draft Wording of Declaration to Condemn Meciar's Amnesties

Gov't Okays Draft Wording of Declaration to Condemn Meciar's Amnesties

Bratislava, November 30 (TASR) – The Cabinet recommends Parliament to adopt a declaration on the controversial amnesties issued by erstwhile prime minister Vladimir Meciar when he was acting president in 1998. At its session on Wednesday, the Cabinet approved the declaration’s draft wording submitted by Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD)

Ziga Rejects That Weapons from Slovakia Went to Middle East

Ziga Rejects That Weapons from Slovakia Went to Middle East

Bratislava, November 30 (TASR) – Slovak Economy Minister Peter Ziga (Smer-SD) after the Cabinet session on Wednesday rejected any involvement of Slovakia in the alleged discovery of weapons in the Middle East. According to Ziga, the weapons and ammunition that were sent from Slovenia to Slovakia back in 2005 were properly

Fico: Dubcek's Bust to Be Unveiled in European Parliament

Fico: Dubcek's Bust to Be Unveiled in European Parliament

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – Slovak politician Alexander Dubcek, who was at the helm of a reformist Czechoslovak communist movement in 1968 known as the Prague Spring, will get a bust in European Parliament on December 13, Prime Minister Robert Fico announced Tuesday at Bratislava Castle at a ceremony commemorating the