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Fico: I Won't Respond to Circus-like Absurdities

Fico: I Won't Respond to Circus-like Absurdities

Kezmarok, February 10 (TASR) – Prime Minister Robert Fico won’t be responding to circus-like absurdities. The Cabinet replied in this manner to a call from OLaNO-NOVA leader Igor Matovic – raised earlier on Wednesday – to have Matovic and Fico take a lie detector test together. Fico pointed out that Matovic has

Matovic Challenges Fico to Polygraph, Files Complaint against Vandak

Matovic Challenges Fico to Polygraph, Files Complaint against Vandak

Bratislava, February 10 (TASR) – OLaNO-NOVA leader Igor Matovic, speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, called on Prime Minister Robert Fico to undergo a polygraph test with him, saying that if Fico finds the courage to do so, Matovic will give him the 121 million Slovak crowns (about €4 million)

Kostka: I'm Not Masseur Who Steals

Kostka: I'm Not Masseur Who Steals

Bratislava, February 10, (TASR) – Peter Kostka, the owner of a clinic called Klinika Kostka who has been accused of signing an excessively favourable contract with state-run health insurer Vseobecna zdravotna poistovna (VsZP), denied on Wednesday that he’s a masseur who steals. “If I don’t have a single patient

Simon: Culture Ministry Unlawfully Intervened in Election Campaign

Simon: Culture Ministry Unlawfully Intervened in Election Campaign

Bratislava, February 9 (TASR) – The Culture Ministry has overstepped its powers, announced Most-Hid vice-chair Zsolt Simon at a press conference on Tuesday, referring to an official letter that the ministry sent to mayor of Lucenec (Banska Bystrica region) Alexandra Pivkova asking her to address unlawful circumstances concerning the election posters

Opposition Insists on Special Session Despite Fico's Offer to Nurses

Opposition Insists on Special Session Despite Fico's Offer to Nurses

Bratislava, February 8, (TASR) – Opposition parties are insisting on summoning an extraordinary session of Parliament to deal with the education and health-care sectors despite an offer made by Prime Minister Robert Fico to nurses on Friday (February 5). Fico asked nurses who have filed their resignations to return to their

Matovic: Fico Lies, Has Known About the Case for Six Years

Matovic: Fico Lies, Has Known About the Case for Six Years

Bratislava, February 5 (TASR) – Prime Minister Robert Fico lies when he claims that he acquired the evidence of alleged tax fraud against Igor Matovic-regionPRESS firm, dated from 2008, only these days and thus he released the material on Friday, OLaNO-NOVA leader Igor Matovic said at a press conference on the

IVO: Smer-SD Overvalued Migration Crisis, Oppotision Internal Problems

IVO: Smer-SD Overvalued Migration Crisis, Oppotision Internal Problems

The ruling Smer-SD party overestimated the impact of the migration crisis, while the Opposition overvalued internal problems and mutual relations, the Institute for Public Affairs (IVO) President, Grigorij Meseznikov said on Friday. He added that Smer-SD has underestimated the real problems of the country, such as health care and education