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Fico: What's Happening in Recent Days is Targeted Attack on Slovak Presidency

Fico: What's Happening in Recent Days is Targeted Attack on Slovak Presidency

Bratislava, November 23 (TASR) – What’s been happening in the past two or three days is not an accident, but a targeted attack against the successful Slovak Presidency of the Council of the EU and against Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak, said Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) following

Kalinak Sends Documents on Relationship with B.A. Haus to Committee

Kalinak Sends Documents on Relationship with B.A. Haus to Committee

Bratislava, November 20 (TASR) – Interior Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) has sent materials regarding his ownership relationship with a company called B.A. Haus to the parliamentary committee for incompatibility of posts, TASR learnt on Sunday. Despite missing documentation, the material might help the committee to make headway in its decision-making,

Pirosik Charged for Lighting Smoke Shell in Front of Presidential Palace

Pirosik Charged for Lighting Smoke Shell in Front of Presidential Palace

Bratislava, November 18 (TASR) – The police have pressed charges of rowdiness against the leader of the radical leftist Resistance-Labour Party, Stanislav Pirosik, who on Thursday fired a red smoke shell at a demonstration in front of the Presidential Palace, Bratislava regional police directorate spokesperson Tatiana Kurucova told TASR on Friday.

State to Help Trnava-based Carmarker with Labour Requalification

State to Help Trnava-based Carmarker with Labour Requalification

Trnava, November 18 (TASR) – Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) along with Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Minister Jan Richter (Smer-SD) and Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Centre (UPSVaR) general director Marian Valentovic on Friday discussed possibilities for supporting employment with representatives of Trnava-based carmarker PSA Groupe Slovakia, TASR

Some 500 People Celebrate November '89 Along with Opposition

Some 500 People Celebrate November '89 Along with Opposition

Bratislava, November 17 (TASR) – Enough of Prime Minister Robert Fico; we didn’t want this; it’s time for a new November – such were the slogans that reverberated at the Slovak National Uprising Square on Thursday. There were around 500 people celebrating November 17, 1989 at an event organised by

Fico: Free-of-charge Train Transport for Students Remains in Place

Fico: Free-of-charge Train Transport for Students Remains in Place

Bratislava, November 17 (TASR) – The free-of-charge train transport will remain in place, said Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) on Thursday after a lunch with university students from around the whole of Slovakia. The premier reported that in the two years since it’s been introduced almost one million people have

Bugar: If Centre-Right Had Formed Gov't, It Would Have Been Dead by Now

Bugar: If Centre-Right Had Formed Gov't, It Would Have Been Dead by Now

Bratislava, November 15 (TASR) – Any chance of forming a centre-right government after the March 2016 general election vanished the moment when the Slovak National Party (SNS) gave up on talks with a quintet of other rightist parties, but even if SNS had decided to join a rightist government, such a