13. December 2019 at 12:17

Whistleblowing is like a visit to the dentist's

You know it will hurt but you also know it is the right thing to do, says Pavol Szalai.

Peter Dlhopolec

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Pavol Szalai Pavol Szalai (source: TASR)
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He and his colleague, Zuzana Hlávková, quit Slovakia's Foreign Ministry over a fraudulent public procurement of a logo presentation of the Slovak EU Presidency.

Either you do as we say or you will have to go, the ministry told Pavol Szalai and his colleague.

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"We were not given a choice. We resigned," Szalai told The Slovak Spectator.

What was it like to report the inefficient spending of public money? Listen to the story of Pavol Szalai from Euractiv.sk.

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