Slovak PM Fico wins election

March 6, 2016

WHEN Donald Trump asked his supporters in Florida to raise their rights hands in a pledge, did he know what he was doing? YOU may think you've got the city all figured out but as traveller Tommy Walker discovered, there's a lot more to it than first meets the eye.

Slovak Elections: Parliament Hung, Drawn and Quartered

March 6, 2016

The results of the Slovak parliamentary elections produced enough surprises for the splintered right to dream of forming a multi-party coalition government and oust current Prime Minister Robert Fico and his Smer-SD party, which finds itself without enough allies in parliament to get the majority

Czech PM congratulates outgoing Slovak premier on election win

March 6, 2016

Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka has congratulated the winner of
parliamentary elections in Slovakia, outgoing premier Robert Fico. Sobotka
added though that forming a new government would not be easy for what he

Slovakia election: Anti-migrant PM Fico 'loses majority'

March 6, 2016

Euless Police Officer Killed in Shooting He started his career as an auxiliary officer, the unarmed but uniformed volunteer part of the New York Police Department. Before the service, Hofer's casket led a procession of countless police vehicles from the funeral home to the stadium.

Slovak PM Fico's Smer party leads in election

March 6, 2016

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-SD came first in the general election in Slovakia on Saturday, according to a TV Markiza exit poll. Smer-SD won 27.3 percent of the vote, followed by Freedom and Solidarity with 13.3 percent and OLaNO-NOVA with 11.2 percent, the exit poll showed.

Slovakia's Fico set for victory in EU's anti-refugee east

March 5, 2016

An election poster shows a candidate of Smer party and Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico in front of the Bratislava Castle in Bratislava, Slovakia, March 4, 2016.

1st President of Independent Slovakia Hospitalized

March 5, 2016

The 85-year-old Michal Kovac is in a stable and non-life threatening condition, according to Petra Stano Matasovska, the spokeswoman for Bratislava's University Hospital. But she declined Saturday to give any further details.

Czech press survey - March 5

March 5, 2016

Czech Finance Minister Andrej Babis's proposal that the next general election be held in June and not in October 2017 only "if we do not feel well together in the coalition," which he made in an interview for today's issue of daily Pravo looks logical at first sight, Alexandr

Slovakia's ruling party makes migrants a hot election issue

March 4, 2016

In this June 27, 2014 file photo Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico arrives for an EU summit in Brussels.

Czech PM to visit Munich Agreement site

March 5, 2016

Czech prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka will become the first Czech leader
ever to visit the site where the Munich Agreement dividing up
Czechoslovakia was signed on September 30, 1938, the ČTK agency reported

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