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President: My Stance to China Unchangeable, but I Respect Danko's Invitation

President: My Stance to China Unchangeable, but I Respect Danko's Invitation

Bratislava, August 13 (TASR) – The position in which I criticised China for not respecting human rights was fully in line with the EU position and is unchangeable, President Zuzana Caputova said on Tuesday after meeting Ombudswoman Maria Patakyova, adding, however, that she respects the different opinion of Parliamentary Chair Andrej

Pellegrini Doesn't Want Gaspar on Smer-SD's Slate for General Election

Pellegrini Doesn't Want Gaspar on Smer-SD's Slate for General Election

Bratislava, August 13 (TASR) – Prime Minister and Smer-SD vice-chairman Peter Pellegrini claims that the issue of his status within the party is being discussed and that points of intersection are being sought. “We want to make use of these weeks to discuss how Smer-SD will take part in the [general]

Truban: We Don't Want to Staff State Firms with Own People, But Experts

Truban: We Don't Want to Staff State Firms with Own People, But Experts

Bratislava, August 12 (TASR) – The Progressive Slovakia (PS) and Together parties want to bring about a change in the political culture and professionalism, leader of the two parties Michal Truban has told TASR in an interview, adding that the parties don’t want to staff state-run companies with their “own

Danko: I'd Welcome Rational Coalition of Parties with Structures

Danko: I'd Welcome Rational Coalition of Parties with Structures

Bratislava, August 12 (TASR) – Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko (Slovak National Party/SNS) in an interview for TASR has ruled out post-election cooperation with all parties that support the adoption of children by homosexuals, engage in racism or deny the Holocaust. Danko said he would be glad if a reasonable coalition

Poll: Smer-SD Top, Followed by Progressive Slovakia-Together

Poll: Smer-SD Top, Followed by Progressive Slovakia-Together

Bratislava, August 9 (TASR) – If a parliamentary election had been held in August, Smer-SD would have come out on top with 21.8 percent of the votes, followed by the Progressive Slovakia-Together coalition on 14 percent and the far-right People’s Party Our Slovakia on 12.1 percent, according to

Truban Admits to LSD and Repeated Marihuana Use in Past

Truban Admits to LSD and Repeated Marihuana Use in Past

Bratislava, August 8 (TASR) – Chairman of the still non-parliamentary Progressive Slovakia party Michal Truban admitted to his repeated use of marihuana in the past and added that he had also tried out LSD 12 years ago. Speaking in a video posted on his social network page on Thursday, Truban specified

Far-right MEP Uhrik Apologises to SNP Museum Director for his Statements

Far-right MEP Uhrik Apologises to SNP Museum Director for his Statements

Banska Bystrica, Augusta 6 (TASR) – MEP Milan Uhrik (far right People’s Party Our Slovakia/LSNS) apologised to Slovak National Uprising Museum’s general director Stanislav Micev over his statement made in TA3’s televised debate back in May 2017 that Micev had been communist-era’s “State Security worker, who