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Court awards damages to Labsi News in short Locked

SLOVAKIA must pay €15,000 in compensation to Mustafa Labsi, who was deported from Slovakia to Algeria in April 2010, rules the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. 21 May 2012 Compiled by Spectator staff The Slovak Spectator

NKÚ completes Supreme Court audit News in short Locked

AN AUDIT performed by Slovakia's Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) at the Supreme Court in April found no violations of the law or other financial problems in the court’s final financial report for 2011, the SITA newswire reported on May 11. 21 May 2012 Compiled by Spectator staff The Slovak Spectator

Most-Híd offered minorities post News in short Locked

THE GOVERNMENT might, for the first time, include an representative from the opposition as Prime Minister Robert Fico offered the post of government proxy for minorities to the opposition Most-Híd party. 21 May 2012 Compiled by Spectator staff The Slovak Spectator

Spišiak departs, dogged by lawsuit Locked

JAROSLAV Spišiak stood down from his job as president of the Police Corps in mid May after a busy one and a half years in which he imposed a raft of changes, including a new system to evaluate the work of police officers and oversaw the arrest of several high-profile criminals, such as members of the Piťovci and Sýkorovci organised crime groups. Despite his achievements, he now faces a lawsuit. 21 May 2012 Radka Minarechová with press reports The Slovak Spectator

Investing in tourism: Attracting tourists Locked

MORE than 3.5 million domestic and international tourists stayed in accommodation establishments in 2011, an increase of 10 percent from 2010, according to data released by Slovakia’s Statistics Office, with the number of foreign tourists having accommodation within Slovakia reaching more than 1.4 million, also a 10-percent increase compared to 2010. 21 May 2012 Radka Minarechová The Slovak Spectator

Investing in tourism ONE OF the first challenges for the government in the area of tourism will be setting new goals for the period 2013-2020 and preparing a strategy to accomplish them. Government officials, as well as businesses and tourism authorities, are suggesting several approaches that Slovakia could use to improve its tourism potential and attract more people to visit the country. 21 May 2012 Radka Minarechová The Slovak Spectator

Opposition parties remain in turmoil Opposition agrees on nominees to state posts but two parties face battles over leadership Locked

AFTER a weeks-long tug-of-war the centre-right opposition parties in parliament have finally agreed on the distribution of nominations to senior public positions granted to them by the new Fico government. The Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) will nominate the new head of the Public Procurement Office (ÚVO), while Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) will pick the director of the Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ). Banking sector expert Ján Tóth should become the deputy governor of the central bank, the NBS, while Ľudovít Ódor will become a member of the Fiscal Council; both were proposed as experts by the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ). 21 May 2012 Beata Balogová The Slovak Spectator

Parties agree to end MPs' immunity MEMBERS of Slovakia’s parliament will no longer enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution after September 1, the day Slovakia celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption of its constitution – if the political parties in parliament stick to the commitment they announced to the public on May 16. After September 1 a member of parliament will be protected from prosecution only for statements made in official parliamentary forums and for his or her votes in parliament while “in everything else there will be equality in the face of the law”, stated MP Radoslav Procházka, a member of the special committee established to draft the constitutional change that will scrap the immunity currently enjoyed by MPs. 21 May 2012 Beata Balogová The Slovak Spectator

Parliament okays Fico’s programme Locked

AFTER a two-week marathon debate, with comments by 60 members of parliament on the programme statement that the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico will pursue over the next four years, parliament easily adopted the document on May 15 with 82 yes votes among the 145 MPs present. Fico’s Smer party holds a comfortable majority of 17 seats in parliament so it was expected that the programme would have no trouble passing. But it took much longer than expected because of the large number of MPs, mostly from opposition parties, who wanted to comment on the direction proposed by the new government. 21 May 2012 Beata Balogová The Slovak Spectator

Judge’s discrimination suit dismissed News in short A DISCRIMINATION lawsuit filed by retired judge Jozef Soročina was dismissed by the Bratislava I District Court, but the judge’s lawyer, Juraj Kus, stated that the case would be appealed, the SITA newswire wrote. 14 May 2012 Compiled by Spectator staff The Slovak Spectator

Sacking postpones Mlynky treaty News in short THE PROBLEMS surrounding funding of a new Slovak cultural centre, the Slovak House, in the Hungarian village of Mlynky apparently will not be resolved as early as planned due to the dismissal of Milan Vetrák from his post as chairman of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad (ÚSŽZ), effective as of May 10. 14 May 2012 Compiled by Spectator staff The Slovak Spectator

Minister’s diploma scrutinised LABOUR Minister Ján Richter certainly has some challenging bites on his ministerial plate including the country’s notoriously high unemployment, its perpetually-revised pension system as well as the dizzying prospect of reforming the payroll levy system. Yet the media is quizzing him for an explanation over the legitimacy of his law degree after the Sme daily reported alleged problems with the accreditation of the course that earned Richter his bachelor’s degree. Richter’s former school, Matej Bel University, stated that everything was in line with the rules and that any doubts are the result of a misunderstanding. 14 May 2012 Beata Balogová The Slovak Spectator

Gašparovič faces Ukrainian challenge UKRAINE’S decision to postpone a summit of central and eastern European presidents that was to have taken place in the Black Sea port of Yalta on May 11-12 has now presented Slovak President Ivan Gašparovič with a rare spot in the diplomatic limelight. The event was put off after a series of European leaders – though not Gašparovič – said they would not attend, most citing Ukraine’s treatment of jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. 14 May 2012 Radka Minarechová The Slovak Spectator

Malchárek investigated SLOVAKIA’s police are now examining the circumstances in which Jirko Malchárek, a former economy minister (November 2005-July 2006) who was nominated by the now defunct New Citizen’s Alliance (ANO) party, acquired his residence in a high-end area of Bratislava. Malchárek’s name is featured in the so-called Gorilla file, a document published on the internet that purports to include transcripts of conversations covertly recorded by Slovakia’s SIS spy agency in 2005 and 2006 between representatives of the Penta financial group and several influential Slovak public figures, including Malchárek. 14 May 2012 Beata Balogová The Slovak Spectator

Radičová leaves the political stage THERE were no shockwaves in the Slovak political arena when former prime minister Iveta Radičová delivered her letter of resignation to the central office of her party, the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) on May 3. Radičová had announced her intention to quit politics shortly after the fall of her centre-right government last October. 14 May 2012 Beata Balogová The Slovak Spectator

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