BRATISLAVA, August 18, (SITA) -- Ruling coalition member, the party SaS, believes they are successful in honoring their pledges from the election campaign. Almost 57 percent of their election program found its place in the government's program statement, underlined Culture Minister Daniel Krajcer... read more

BRATISLAVA, August 6, (SITA)- Prime Minister Iveta Radicova proposes to analyze contracts worth more than EUR 500,000 that had been concluded shortly before the June elections or narrowly after the race. A proposal for increasing the quality of internal control systems and implementation of... read more

BRATISLAVA, August 5, (SITA) – The Parliamentary Committee for the Incompatibility of Offices began an investigation on the objection of the Fair-Play Alliance; according to which three members of the Slovak Radio Council broke the law when trying to get elected to parliament in June elections.... read more

BRATISLAVA, July 27, (SITA) -- A number of promises from election programs of individual political parties that are now in government will be hard to fulfill with regard to the desperate state of the public funds, Finance Minister Ivan Miklos (SDKU-DS) believes. In an interview for SITA news... read more

BRATISLAVA, July 22, (SITA) -- If parliamentary elections in Slovakia were held in early July, the opposition SMER-SD would be the winner with 42 percent. The strongest party in the new ruling coalition SDKU-DS would garner 14.7 percent. Its partner the SaS led by Richard Sulik would receive 12.3... read more

BRATISLAVA, July 20, (SITA) -- Justice Minister Lucia Zitnanska (SDKU-DS) stands by her decision and considers the introduction of an open competition for filling the post of judges without favoring judicial candidates an important part of building an effective and open judiciary. SITA news agency... read more

BRATISLAVA, July 20, (SITA) – On Tuesday, the strongest party of the center-right ruling coalition, the SDKU-DS, agreed to nominate parliamentary deputy and deputy of Bratislava County parliament Magda Vasaryova as its candidate for Bratislava mayor in the regional elections which will be held on... read more

BRATISLAVA, July 19 (SITA) -- Justice Minister Lucia Zitnanska intends to change the existing system of filling the posts of judges. She wants to establish an open choice without manipulation and undue favoritism. The first step in the planned change is the abolition of contests for the positions... read more

BRATISLAVA, July 6, (SITA) -- Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic congratulated Bronislaw Komorowski on his election as Poland's new president in the presidential runoff on Sunday. On this occasion, President Gasparovic invited the president-elect to visit Slovakia, Elena Bianchi of the Presidential... read more

BRATISLAVA, July 3, (SITA) – Four parties of the future center-right coalition the SDKU-DS, SaS, the KDH and MOST-HID have agreed on Saturday afternoon that they would sign a coalition agreement next Tuesday. According designated Prime Minister Iveta Radicova (SDKU-DS) all open topics have been... read more