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Most-Hid Not Ruling Out Cooperation with SMK in 2017 Regional Elections

Most-Hid Not Ruling Out Cooperation with SMK in 2017 Regional Elections

Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) – The coalition Most-Hid party doesn’t rule out joining forces with the non-parliamentary Hungarian Community Party (SMK) in the regional elections scheduled to take place in 2017, TASR learnt from the Most-Hid press department on Saturday. However, the governing party refused to speak about any specific

Fico: Condemning Meciar's Amnesties in Parliament Appropriate

Fico: Condemning Meciar's Amnesties in Parliament Appropriate

Bratislava, November 30 (TASR) – It’s appropriate to react to the controversial amnesties issued by erstwhile prime minister Vladimir Meciar as acting president in 1998 by condemning them via a parliamentary declaration, said Prime Minister Robert Fico on Wednesday. Earlier in the day the Cabinet recommended that Parliament should adopt

Gov't Okays Draft Wording of Declaration to Condemn Meciar's Amnesties

Gov't Okays Draft Wording of Declaration to Condemn Meciar's Amnesties

Bratislava, November 30 (TASR) – The Cabinet recommends Parliament to adopt a declaration on the controversial amnesties issued by erstwhile prime minister Vladimir Meciar when he was acting president in 1998. At its session on Wednesday, the Cabinet approved the declaration’s draft wording submitted by Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD)

Stop Corruption Foundation: Fico's Claims Have Nothing to Do with Reality

Stop Corruption Foundation: Fico's Claims Have Nothing to Do with Reality

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – The Stop Corruption Foundation on its Facebook page stated that Prime Minister Robert Fico’s (Smer-SD) claims that the foundation has been set up for political reasons have nothing to do with reality and are not substantiated, TASR learnt on Tuesday. Fico said that the foundation

P. Dubcek: BMW Was Prevented from Examining Father's Crashed Car

P. Dubcek: BMW Was Prevented from Examining Father's Crashed Car

Bratislava, November 27 (TASR) – Pavol Dubcek, son of the 1968 Prague Spring leader and later post-communist Czechoslovak parliamentary chairman Alexander Dubcek, has told TABLET.TV that he has some doubts concerning the death of his father in November 1992. Dubcek died in hospital two months after a motorway car crash

Fico: Dubcek Was Global Giant in 1960s and 1970s

Fico: Dubcek Was Global Giant in 1960s and 1970s

Uhrovec, November 26 (TASR) – Alexander Dubcek was like a book cited by many, but few have actually read it, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Saturday in a speech at a commemorative event marking the 95th anniversary of the 1968 Prague Spring leader’s birth in Uhrovec (Trencin region). “Perhaps

Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee to Carry Out Probe at MFA

Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee to Carry Out Probe at MFA

Bratislava, November 25 (TASR) – MPs from the parliamentary foreign affairs committee have decided to carry out a probe at the Foreign and European Affairs Ministry at the end of a special session dedicated to the issue of allegedly overpriced cultural events linked to Slovakia’s Council of the EU Presidency.