Top 3 news from Last Week in Slovakia

Situation at RTVS provokes media freedom concerns.

Former Parliament's Speaker Pavol Paška died of heart attack at age 60.

Journalists of the public-service Radio and Television of Slovakia published an open letter saying they "are fighting with the mistrust we feel towards our superiors, towards their intentions and skills”.

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Smer plans to postpone the balanced budget plan by 2020 to find space for replacing the so-called Christmas bonuses for pensioners with a 13th pension.

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