Bratislava, March 15 (CTK) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska today accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico, which means the fall of the whole cabinet, and assigned outgoing Deputy PM Peter Pellegrini (both Smer-Social Democracy) to form a new cabinet based on the current three-party coalition. Fico’s cabinet will remain in office pending ...
Bratislava, March 15 (CTK) – The organisers of anti-government protests in Slovakia are not satisfied with the resignation of Prime Minister Robert Fico after the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, and they demand early elections, they said in their statement today. Civic activists, who have staged the biggest demonstrations in Slovakia’s ...
Bratislava, March 13 (CTK) – The government parties, Smer-Social Democracy (Smer-SD), the Slovak National Party (SNS) and Most Hid, have not agreed on a solution to the coalition crisis yet, SNS and parliament chairman Andrej Danko said and did not rule out talks on the PM’s replacement being conducted. The parties tried to find ...
Bratislava, March 13 (CTK) – The Slovak police have arrested, based on an European arrest warrant, Italian businessman Antonino Vadala, whom the recently murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak mentioned in his last article, the Slovak General Prosecutor’s Office announced. The warrant for Vadala’s arrest was issued by a court in Venice, Italy. “By ...
The following article written by Keno Verseck first appeared on DW A journalist’s murder has triggered a crisis of identity and trust in Slovakia. Even the president isn’t sure anymore if his country follows the rule of law or the laws of the mafia, Keno Verseck reports from Bratislava. Usually people don’t pay ...
Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák did not fail, he was one of the most talented members of the government, Prime Minister Robert Fico said. According to him, Kaliňák leaves for the sake of stability and the continuation of positive government policy. Kaliňák’s resignation after the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his wife demanded by the opposition. ...
Bratislava, March 7 (CTK) – Three Slovak opposition parties want to a hold a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Robert Fico’s coalition government over the recent murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend. Kuciak and his girlfriend, both 27, were shot dead in their house in Velka Maca village, west Slovakia, in ...
Bratislava, March 6 (CTK) – The Slovak police confirmed today that head of the anti-corruption unit Robert Krajmer, who is being connected with “oligarch” Norbert Bodor, a brother-in-law of Police President Tibor Gaspar, was on the scene of the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend. Gaspar himself said on Monday Krajmer had ...
Bratislava, March 7 (CTK) – Czech PM Andrej Babis (ANO) has filed a petition for appellate review of the Slovak court’s verdict rejecting his legal complaint against being registered as a former communist secret police (StB) agent with the Bratislava Supreme Court, Slovak media reported today. They referred to a statements by the agner ...
