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Coalition: Constitutional Judge Should Be at Least 45 and Speak World Language

Coalition: Constitutional Judge Should Be at Least 45 and Speak World Language

Bratislava, May 22 (TASR) – An age of at least 45, mastering at least one world language and passing judicial, lawyer’s or prosecutor’s exams – these might be the new criteria for selecting candidates for constitutional judges, with the governing coalition agreeing on them at its session on Tuesday. “We’

Parliament Rejects Constitutional Law on Snap Election

Parliament Rejects Constitutional Law on Snap Election

Bratislava, May 22 (TASR) – A snap parliamentary election won’t be held, as MPs on Tuesday didn’t support the Opposition’s draft constitutional law on shortening the election term, which would have set the date of the next parliamentary election at September 8, 2018, TASR learnt on the same

TIS: Private Companies to Offer Helping Hand to Whistleblowers

TIS: Private Companies to Offer Helping Hand to Whistleblowers

Bratislava, May 21 (TASR) – More than 400 private companies have committed themselves to helping whistleblowers who lose their jobs due to reporting corruption at work, TASR learnt on Monday. The companies have joined the Backing the Bold Ones initiative, which has been launched by Transparency International Slovakia (TIS) in cooperation

Journalists Should Enjoy Special Status, Ministry to Form Working Group

Journalists Should Enjoy Special Status, Ministry to Form Working Group

Bratislava, May 21 (TASR) – The protection provided to journalists when performing their work needs to be strengthened by means of legislation, Culture Minister Lubica Lassakova, representatives of publishing houses and editors-in-chief concurred at a meeting on Monday. “There’s no legally binding definition of the term ‘journalist’ at the moment,

Bugar: Governing Coalition Won't Have Joint Presidential Candidate

Bugar: Governing Coalition Won't Have Joint Presidential Candidate

The current governing coalition probably won’t have a joint presidential candidate, stated chairman of junior governing party Most-Hid Bela Bugar on RTVS’s programme ‘O 5 Minut 12’ (Five Minutes to Twelve) on Sunday, adding that his party will have its own candidate that will be decided on by

Matecna Still Sees No Reason to Leave Post of Agriculture Minister

Matecna Still Sees No Reason to Leave Post of Agriculture Minister

I still see no reason to leave the post of agriculture minister, stated head of the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry Gabriela Matecna (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) on TA3’s programme ‘V politike’ (In Politics) on Sunday, a few days before an extraordinary parliamentary session during which she’

Pellegrini: If Matecna Failed, Evidence Needs to Be Presented

Pellegrini: If Matecna Failed, Evidence Needs to Be Presented

Unfair practices in Slovak agriculture are being squeezed out and many things can’t happen at present which used to happen in the past, with Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Gabriela Matecna (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) to become a symbol of positive changes at the ministry, Prime Minister