Bratislava, March 5 (CTK) – Slovak Culture Minister Marek Madaric tendered his letter of resignation to President Andrej Kiska over the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak today, but he will keep the post for the time being. Madaric announced his resignation last week. Kuciak and his fiancee were shot dead in their ...
Bratislava, March 4 (CTK) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska’s proposal for a reconstruction of the government in connection with the political crisis in the wake of the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee amounts to denying the election result, Prime Minister Robert Fico said today. Fico, leader of the senior government Smer-Social ...
Bratislava, March 4 (CTK) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska proposed today “a vast and essential” reconstruction of the cabinet of Robert Fico or an early general election as a way out of the crisis of confidence in the state following last week’s murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend. Kiska will discuss the ...
Bratislava, March 3 (CTK) – The Slovak police have released all seven Italians who had been detained on Thursday within the investigation into last week’s murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, the police announced today, confirming information of the server tvnoviny.sk. The server reported this morning that at least six of ...
Rome/Bratislava, March 2 (CTK) – The recent death of the young journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee forced Slovakia to become aware of the mafia operating in its territory, but Italian mafias have been investing and hiding in Slovakia for years, Italian author Roberto Saviano has written on Facebook. Saviano mentions members of the ...
Bratislava, March 3 (CTK) – Reporters without Borders (RSF) Secretary General Christophe Deloire insists on having called on Slovak PM Robert Fico to apologise for offending journalists, but Fico dismissed the information on Friday and the Government Office released a statement in his support today. At a meeting with Fico in Bratislava on Friday, ...
Bratislava, March 3 (CTK) – Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak is not going to quit in compliance with the calls from the opposition and a junior government party, as he wants to do his utmost for the police to clear up the murder of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, he told Slovak radio today. ...
Bratislava/Brussels, March 2 (CTK) – The Slovak Supreme Audit Office pointed out faults in the granting of EU subsidies in agriculture, as early as 2017, when it inspected the Slovak Agriculture Payment Agency (PPA), it has turned out in connection with a recent murder of Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak. Kuciak wrote about a possible ...
Brussels, March 1 (CTK correspondent) – The European Commission (EC) asked today the respective Slovak authorities to provide information on a possible abuse of European funds for agriculture in connection with the murder of Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak, EC spokesman Alexander Winterstein has said. The EC reacted to the suspicion of abuse of these ...
