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Prime Minister: Coalition Living Its Normal Inner Life

Prime Minister: Coalition Living Its Normal Inner Life

Bratislava, February 8 (TASR) – The governing coalition has been living its normal inner life, said Prime Minister and Smer-SD leader Robert Fico ahead of the Coalition Council meeting on Wednesday. These are three parties that have different opinions on many things; but the coalition has been formed and is bound

State to Continue Supporting Organ Transplants in Slovakia

State to Continue Supporting Organ Transplants in Slovakia

Bratislava, February 8 (TASR) – The number of organ transplants in Slovakia is increasing, according to a Health Ministry-sponsored report on meeting the National Transplant Programme, which was acknowledged by the Cabinet at its regular session on Wednesday. According to the report, doctors in Slovakia transplanted 184 kidneys, 27 hearts and

URSO: Water Charges to Remain at 2016 Levels

URSO: Water Charges to Remain at 2016 Levels

Bratislava, February 7 (TASR) – The Office for the Regulation of Network Industries (URSO) announced to Prime Minister Robert Fico on Tuesday that it will release a directive returning water charges to the levels seen in 2016, as it has done with electricity, Fico’s spokesperson Beatrice Szaboova reported on the

House Committee Slaps Fine on Danko for Property Disclosure Omission

House Committee Slaps Fine on Danko for Property Disclosure Omission

Bratislava, February 7 (TASR) – Parliamentary Chairman and leader of the Slovak National Party (SNS) Andrej Danko has acted in contravention of the Conflict of Interests Act by failing to include ‘claims against a third party’ in his property disclosure for 2015, TASR learnt on Tuesday. The omission concerned Danko’s

SNS Staying in Coalition and Will Search for Solutions in Energy Sector

SNS Staying in Coalition and Will Search for Solutions in Energy Sector

Bratislava, February 6 (TASR) – The Slovak National Party (SNS) will remain in the coalition and seek solutions to issues that have emerged in the energy sector recently, stated SNS leader and Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko after the party’s presidium session on Monday. Danko added that the SNS presidium authorised

Remisova: Slovakia Has to Root Out Causes of Extremism First

Remisova: Slovakia Has to Root Out Causes of Extremism First

Bratislava, February 5 (TASR) – In terms of extremism the major problem is that we have been on the edge about what is considered to be freedom of expression and what is the defamation of race and nation, stated Interior Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) on RTVS’s discussion programme ‘O 5

Bednar: Ex-president Kovac's Amnesties Did Influence Slovak State

Bednar: Ex-president Kovac's Amnesties Did Influence Slovak State

Bratislava, February 3 (TASR) – The amnesties that late former president Michal Kovac (in office 1993-98) granted to his son in relation to the so-called Technopol scandal had an influence on the character of the Slovak state, and so they should be abrogated along with former prime minister Vladimir Meciar’s