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SMK: Cooperation with OLaNO Open Question, Had One Meeting So Far

SMK: Cooperation with OLaNO Open Question, Had One Meeting So Far

Bratislava, November 18 (TASR) – Potential election cooperation between non-parliamentary ethnic-Hungarian SMK party and opposition OLaNO party is an open question at this stage, SMK chair Jozsef Menyhart told TASR on Saturday. According to Menyhart, everything will be decided in talks, with the compatibility of programmes and goals being the key

Matovic: Time Has Come to Offer Helping Hand to SMK Party

Matovic: Time Has Come to Offer Helping Hand to SMK Party

Bratislava, November 18 (TASR) – The time has come to extend a helping hand to (non-parliamentary) ethnic-Hungarian SMK party and, through the party, also to inhabitants of southern Slovakia [ethnic Hungarian region], opposition OLaNO leader Igor Matovic told TASR on Saturday. Earlier in the week, during the Dennik N discussion Matovic

Ministers Recall November 1989, Underline Importance of Freedom

Ministers Recall November 1989, Underline Importance of Freedom

Bratislava, November 17 (TASR) – Freedom is not to blame for the great number of problems Slovakia has gone through since 1989 and the problems still ahead, it’s rather the manner in which we put that freedom to use sometimes, thinks Justice Minister Lucia Zitnanska (Most-Hid). Along with her fellow

SaS: We Live in Free, Safe and Plentiful World Thanks to Velvet Revolution

SaS: We Live in Free, Safe and Plentiful World Thanks to Velvet Revolution

Bratislava, November 16 (TASR) – Despite the much disillusionment and many disappointments that have emerged since the Velvet Revolution in 1989, on which populists of various forms have fed like parasites, we’re living in freedom and in relative safety and abundance, reads a statement by the Opposition Freedom and Solidarity

Marek Madaric Offers Resignation as Smer-SD Vice-chair

Marek Madaric Offers Resignation as Smer-SD Vice-chair

Bratislava, November 14 (TASR) – Culture Minister Marek Madaric offered the Smer-SD leadership his resignation from the post of party vice-chair at a top leadership session held on Tuesday, TASR learnt on the same day. This time the session was also attended by Smer-SD chair and Prime Minister Robert Fico, who

Fico: No Reason to Hold Smer Vice-chairs Accountable for Regional Elections

Fico: No Reason to Hold Smer Vice-chairs Accountable for Regional Elections

Bratislava, November 10 (TASR) – Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) would like to have seen his party with more governors and regional councillors following the elections last week, but he noted the result was due to the majority electoral system and hardly anything could be done about it. At the same

TIS: Despite Progress Slovakia Still Failing to Catch 'Big Fish' for Corruption

TIS: Despite Progress Slovakia Still Failing to Catch 'Big Fish' for Corruption

Bratislava, November 10 (TASR) – Over the past three years Slovakia has seen only a tiny improvement in terms of successfully prosecuting corruption at the highest levels, according to an analysis carried out by Transparency International Slovakia (TIS), which presented the results on Friday. According to the analysis, which examined developments