Bratislava, July 6 (CTK) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska has vetoed an amendment to the courts law, passed by the parliament on June 20, because it strongly reduces the public checking of court decisions, Kiska’s spokesman Martin Liptak told journalists today. Kiska has returned the bill to the parliament. He warned the lawmakers ...
Bratislava, June 22 (CTK) – Robert Fico, leader of the strongest coalition government party Smer-Social Democracy (Smer-SD) and a former prime minister, announced today he would draft the law under which NGOs would have to release details about their financing, including money from abroad. In an interview with the online television station Tablet.tv, Fico ...
Bratislava, May 15 (CTK) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska will not be defending his post in the election scheduled for next year because he wants to spend more time with his family, he told journalists today. Kiska, 55, and his wife Martina have one daughter and two sons – Veronica, 13, Viktor, 9, and ...
Bratislava, April 28 (CTK) – The management of the Slovak public radio and television broadcaster RTVS started getting rid of its external reporters who signed an open letter criticising the situation in the news desk and the broadcaster in general, the website of the Slovak daily Smer writes. In early April, 59 reporters, or ...
Brussels, April 20 (CTK correspondent) – The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) has launched investigation into a suspected misuse of EU agricultural funds in Slovakia, reacting to the articles of murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak, OLAF told CTK today, confirming Politico.eu server’s information. EC spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud would not comment on the issue, citing the ...
Bratislava, April 16 (CTK) – New Slovak Interior Minister Tomas Drucker will tender his resignation since he does not consider it right to dismiss Police President Tibor Gaspar, which demonstrators demand, Drucker told journalists today. Protesters call for changes after the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee in early March that ...
Prague, April 5 (CTK) – A crowd of 300, mostly young people demanded change in the situation in Slovakia, the dismissal of police president Tibor Gaspar and an independent investigation into the murder of young journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee at a rally in Prague today. Speeches were delivered by the Slovaks studying ...
Pezinok, West Slovakia, March 26 (CTK) – Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova were murdered on January 21, four days before their bodies were found, Slovak prosecutor said today, releasing for the first time details of the shooting of the couple, which caused political crisis in the country. According to the ...
Bratislava, March 25 (CTK) – New Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-Social Democracy) believes that his government will pass a confidence vote in parliament next week, he said in a debate on the public RTVS television today. He also said the previous government of Smer-SD chairman Robert Fico had been reshuffled and dismissed that ...
