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Teachers Hold Protests Against New Legislation in Front of Parliament

Teachers Hold Protests Against New Legislation in Front of Parliament

Bratislava, May 9 (TASR) – Teachers and activists from the Slovak Teachers Initiative (ISU) and Slovak Teachers Chamber (SKU) held a public protest in front of the Government Office and Parliament on Thursday, urging lawmakers to kill the Educational and Professional Employees Act also vetoed by President Andrej Kiska, TASR learnt

Kiska: Evil Must Be Fought and Not Legitimised with Cooperation

Kiska: Evil Must Be Fought and Not Legitimised with Cooperation

Zvolen, May 8 (TASR) – It is our commitment towards people who fought for our freedom to stand up against evil, identify it, fight it and not legitimise it with co-operation in the Parliament as is the case these days [alluding to deals with far-right LSNS party in the House-ed.note]

Fico: Kiska Should Abstain from Attacking Slovakia

Fico: Kiska Should Abstain from Attacking Slovakia

Bratislava, May 7 (TASR) – Head of the co-governing Smer-SD party Robert Fico, reacting on Tuesday to President Andrej Kiska’s statement for German daily Die Welt that Slovakia might be viewed as a mafia state, called on Kiska to abstain from verbal attacks on Slovakia abroad until the end of

Kiska: Connections of Organised Crime with Politicians Make Slovakia Mafia State

Kiska: Connections of Organised Crime with Politicians Make Slovakia Mafia State

Berlin, May 4 (TASR) – Outgoing Slovak President Andrej Kiska has stated for the German Die Welt daily that even though Slovakia is a proper EU-member state, when the dirty connections between organised crime and Slovak politicians are taken into account, it might really seem that the country is a mafia

Supreme Court to Deal with Motion on Dissolving LSNS on Monday

Supreme Court to Deal with Motion on Dissolving LSNS on Monday

Bratislava, April 27 (TASR) – A five-member senate of the Supreme Court will sit on Monday to continue dealing publicly with the possible dissolution of the parliamentary far-right People’s Party Our Slovakia (LSNS). The relevant motion was filed by Prosecutor-General Jaromir Ciznar two years ago. The Supreme Court began dealing

Pellegrini: Bratislava Will Have New State University Hospital

Pellegrini: Bratislava Will Have New State University Hospital

Bratislava, April 24 (TASR) – Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini stated after talks with financial group Penta that the state still has an interest in building a new university hospital in Bratislava, adding that either it will be built on the site of the shell of the unfinished Razsochy hospital in the

Poll: Smer Would Have Won Election in April ahead of PS-Together

Poll: Smer Would Have Won Election in April ahead of PS-Together

Bratislava, April 18 (TASR) – Had a general election taken place in Slovakia in April, it would have been won by the current main governing party Smer-SD, albeit on less that 20 percent of the votes (i.e. on 19 percent), with a prospective Progressive Slovakia (PS)-Together coalition the runner-up