New government ignores Roma and refugees
Refugees were a top issue in pre-election debates, but the new government did not write a single word about them in its programme priorities.
Refugees were a top issue in pre-election debates, but the new government did not write a single word about them in its programme priorities.
Several theatres will allow amateur actors to play their Kováči (Blacksmiths) performance, which was stopped by Banská Bystrica Region’s Governor Marian Kotleba.
The regional prosecutor’s office in Prešov has dismissed a complaint concerning the police inspectorate’s probe into a raid in Moldava nad Bodvou.
The case of Hedviga Malinová ends in Slovakia after 10 years, and will move to Hungarian courts.
Slovakia sends its condolences to Belgium; the Foreign Affairs Ministry does not recommend travelling to Brussels.
General Peter Gajdoš was born on April 9, 1959 in Nitra. He has been in the army since the 1970s, and graduated from military academies in Vyškov (1982), Moscow (1990), and also from the Royal Military Academy in London (2002).
Peter Plavčan has served as the general director of the ministry’s section for universities. In 2011 Transparency International Slovensko reported about his alleged involvement in a scandal surrounding the embezzlement of money from student loan funds.
Gabriela Matečná will come to the top post in the agriculture department from the Slovak Property Fund (SPF), where she was nominated by Smer in 2012.
Tomáš Drucker has served as the general director and the president of board of the Slovenská Pošta state-run postal service company. Smer selected him for the placement at the Health Ministry after PM Robert Fico claimed all four coalition partners have agreed they wanted a person skilled in crisis management to take the ministerial chair at the currently most problematic ministry in the government.
Žiga was first elected to parliament on the slate of Smer party in 2006, but he accepted an executive post instead and was appointed state secretary of the Economy Ministry.
László Solymos was born on November 16, 1968 in Bratislava, and graduated from the Engineering Faculty of the College of Technology in Bratislava (now the Slovak University of Technology).
Lucia Žitňanská served as justice minister twice before.
Marek Maďarič served as the culture minister in both previous governments of Robert Fico (2006-2010 and 2012-2016), this is his third term.
Before becoming the labour minister in 2012, Ján Richter acted as Smer’s general manager since 2006.
Peter Kažimír first became finance minister in 2012.
Kaliňák was first appointed interior minister in 2006. He regained the same post in 2012. Between the years 2010 and 2012 he was member of the permanent delegation of the parliament to NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
Miroslav Lajčák (born in 1963) served as the foreign and European affairs minister under two terms of Robert Fico: first between January 2009 and July 2010, replacing Ján Kubiš, who left the cabinet of Robert Fico for a UN job, and then again in the 2012-2016 cabinet.
List of names of the future ministers was completed on Tuesday, March 22, slightly more than one week after the four partners in the emerging government officially started coalition talks.
Peter Pellegrini was perceived as the rising star of Smer when he was chosen to replace Pavol Paška as the parliament’s speaker in late 2014.
Robert Fico is starting his third term as a prime minister, thus becoming Slovakia’s longest serving prime minister, if the years are counted cumulatively.
Roman Brecely is the Sieť expert on the energy sector.
Slovakia already has one judge at EGC, Juraj Schwarcz.
Ministers for new cabinet are chosen, coalition agreement be signed Tuesday afternoon.
The private carrier has doubled the price of tickets on the Bratislava-Košice route for prime-time trains.
The change may boost preliminary prepayment of mortgages and replacement by new, cheaper, ones.