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Fico: Extraordinary Session Absurd; Old Wives' Tales for Three Hours

Fico: Extraordinary Session Absurd; Old Wives' Tales for Three Hours

Bratislava, April 6 (TASR) – The extraordinary parliamentary session convened to hold a vote of no-confidence in Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Minister Jan Richter (Smer-SD) over the Clean Day scandal is absurd, and the Opposition failed to table a single relevant argument for Richter’s ouster, said Prime Minister

CVEK: Roma Unemployment Requires Education, Not Forced Labour

CVEK: Roma Unemployment Requires Education, Not Forced Labour

Bratislava, April 6 (TASR) – Addressing unemployment among the Roma community and increasing their chances on the labour market won’t be achieved by forcing the Roma to work in order to receive social benefits, but by systematic development of their skills and opportunities, stated two non-profit organisations on Thursday. The

Fico Meets Rule of Law Initiative to Discuss Progress So Far

Fico Meets Rule of Law Initiative to Discuss Progress So Far

Bratislava, April 6 (TASR) – The Government will seek to stay away from adopting any indirect amendments while cutting down on national legislation that complicates the absorption of EU funding and transcends the EU’s requirements, TASR learnt on Thursday. At the same time the Cabinet is ready to amend recently

Rasi Calls on LSNS MPs Not to Misuse Immunity for Spreading Xenophobia

Rasi Calls on LSNS MPs Not to Misuse Immunity for Spreading Xenophobia

Bratislava, April 6 (TASR) – MPs for Kotleba-People’s Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) are misusing their parliamentary immunity to spread their xenophobic opinions and that’s why we should consider curbing their immunity, parliamentary mandate and immunity committee chairman Richard Rasi (Smer-SD) said in the House on Thursday. Rasi was responding

House Annuls Meciar Amnesties and Kovac's Presidential Pardon

House Annuls Meciar Amnesties and Kovac's Presidential Pardon

Bratislava, April 5 (TASR) – Parliament via a resolution that garnered 129 votes from the 144 MPs present on Wednesday revoked the amnesties issued by Vladimir Meciar as acting president dated March 3 and July 7, 1998, as well as the pardon granted by former president Michal Kovac [1993-98] to his

Fico: Meciar Amnesties' Scrapping Moves Slovak Politics to New Level

Fico: Meciar Amnesties' Scrapping Moves Slovak Politics to New Level

Bratislava, April 5 (TASR) – Wednesday’s parliamentary vote on scrapping the so-called Meciar amnesties is extraordinarily important in terms of forming a political culture, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) said on the Cabinet Office’s premises on Wednesday. Leaders of the governing coalition parties presented their positions on the current

Kiska: Corruption at Highest Levels Exists

Kiska: Corruption at Highest Levels Exists

Bratislava, April 4 (TASR) – Corruption at the highest levels is hardly tangible and sophisticated, but it exists and those who claim otherwise are probably living in another world, Slovak President Andrej Kiska told students from the University of Economics (EUBA) in Bratislava on Tuesday. “It’s known that we have