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TIS Wants to Raise Generation of Civil Servants Resistant to Corruption

TIS Wants to Raise Generation of Civil Servants Resistant to Corruption

Bratislava, March 28 (TASR) – A professional state administration resistant to corruption won’t be created by constantly inciting fear among the people who point out acts of corruption in the state institutions, stated representatives from Transparency International Slovakia (TIS) at a press conference in Bratislava on Tuesday. The press conference

Hlina: LSNS Must No Longer Be Treated with Kid Gloves

Hlina: LSNS Must No Longer Be Treated with Kid Gloves

Bratislava, March 23 (TASR) – Slovakia should stop condoning the policies of the far-right LSNS party and its leader Marian Kotleba, as the party is not to be treated with kid gloves, Christian Democrats (KDH) chairman Alojz Hlina told a press conference on Thursday. He went on to lambaste the governing

Police Press Charges of Tax Evasion against Ladislav B.

Police Press Charges of Tax Evasion against Ladislav B.

Bratislava, March 21 (TASR) – An investigator of the National Crime Agency (NAKA) has pressed charges of tax and insurance premium evasion against a businessman referred to only as Ladislav B., Police Corps spokesman Martin Waldl told TASR on Tuesday. “An investigator of the Police Corps’ National Crime Agency on March

MPs Ask Kalinak to Detail Kiska’s Use of Government Aircraft

MPs Ask Kalinak to Detail Kiska’s Use of Government Aircraft

Bratislava, March 21 (TASR) – Interior Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) has been requested to inform Parliament concerning the use of the ministry’s aircraft by senior state officials, TASR learnt on Tuesday. This follows a proposal to this effect that was submitted by governing Smer-SD party MP Martin Nemky and endorsed

Amnesty Talks Suspended by Week; Opposition Has Five Conditions

Amnesty Talks Suspended by Week; Opposition Has Five Conditions

Bratislava, March 21 (TASR) – Talks concerning the coalition-sponsored proposal for revoking the so-called Vladimir Meciar amnesties will be suspended by one week, and the House will begin discussing them again next Tuesday (March 28), concurred representatives of the coalition and Opposition at a parliamentary gremium on Tuesday. The Opposition is

Petition Calling for Scrapping of Meciar Amnesties Delivered to House

Petition Calling for Scrapping of Meciar Amnesties Delivered to House

Bratislava, March 21 (TASR) – As many as 76,831 people have supported the call to abrogate the so-called Meciar amnesties via an online petition (www.somza.to) launched two weeks ago and delivered to Parliament by NGO VIA IURIS along with students on Tuesday. “We want to tell MPs by

LSNS to Support Bills Aimed at Scrapping Meciar Amnesties

LSNS to Support Bills Aimed at Scrapping Meciar Amnesties

Bratislava, March 20 (TASR) – The far-right People’s Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) will lend its support to the coalition-sponsored legislative proposal to revoke Vladimir Meciar’s amnesties and the presidential pardon granted by Michal Kovac to his own son, TASR learnt on Monday. LSNS officials claimed that they’ve adopted