Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
SLOVAKIA'S prime minister has said he may try to negotiate an opt-out clause in the European Union's Lisbon treaty to protect the nation from potential post-war proper
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
SLOVAKIA'S prime minister has said he may try to negotiate an opt-out clause in the European Union's Lisbon treaty to protect the nation from potential post-war proper
The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Observers doubt that changes of the sort that Prime Minister Robert Fico envisions would be passed by parliament but they say the rhetoric used by the prime minister justifies some concern.
The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 30/09/2009
Observers doubt that changes of the sort that Prime Minister Robert Fico envisions would be passed by parliament but they say the rhetoric used by the prime minister justifies some concern.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Bratislava - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico signaled Wednesday that his country would not seek an exemption from a part of the European Union's reform Lisbon Treaty at the bloc's summit this week. In an apparent reversal of his earlier stance, Fic...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
... fourth environment minister to be named in the three years of a ruling coalition by Prime Minister Robert Fico's social-democratic Smer party and two smaller nationalist parties. The new minister has no party affiliation. Medved's three predecessors were all nominated by the SNS, the Slovak National Party. Fico dismissed them after corruption and finance scandals. Because of...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Last updated October 22, 2009 4:46 a.m. PTSlovak PM criticizes US over Iraq warBRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- The host of a meeting of NATO defense ministers is harshly criticizing the U.S. over its 2003 invasion of Iraq.Slovak Premier Robert Fico used a news conference with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to say: "We opposed the mission in Iraq because the use of military force...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Posted on Thu, Oct. 22, 2009 06:52 AM Slovak PM criticizes US over Iraq warThe Associated PressThe host of a meeting of NATO defense ministers is harshly criticizing the U.S. over its 2003 invasion of Iraq.Slovak Premier Robert Fico used a news conference with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to say: "We opposed the mission in Iraq because the use of military force was only...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Hidden at the end of this article is a reported comment by Slovakian primeminister robert fico that his country may demand the same protections from...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Slovakia’s prime minister has said on Czech television that the country could follow the Czech Republic’s example and voice its objections to the Lisbon Treaty over potential post-World War II property claims. Robert Fico said Bratislava does not rule out that at the EU summit due in late October it could demand guarantees that Germany will [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... state with the neighbouring Czech Republic. "We have only two options," said Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in a video message posted on his website on Monday. "Either we will veto the Czech proposal in the European Council or insist that it also applies to Slovakia."Fischer said that he believes that the exemption's phrasing should prevent a Slovak veto of the Czech president's...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
By Matthew Day The country's prime minister said he might seek similar opt-out clauses to those being negotiated by neighbour, the Czech Republic. Robert Fico argued that Slovakia needed the same protection from post-war property claims that the Czech president had demanded. His announcement on Sunday reignited the issue just 24 hours after it appeared to have been finally settled. On...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
... rulings on claims concerning land seized under the so-called Benes Decrees. Slovak prime minister Robert Fico today said his government may ask for a similar clause if their former federation partners Czechs succeed. Czechoslovakia split peacefully into the Czech and Slovak republics in 1993. "We will not leave Slovakia in uncertainty if we feel that one of the seceding countries...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
... claims concerning land seized under the so-called Benes Decrees.On Sunday, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said his government may ask for a similar clause if their former federation partners Czechs succeed. Czechoslovakia split peacefully into the Czech and Slovak republics in 1993."We will not leave Slovakia in uncertainty if we feel that one of the seceding countries of former...
The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
... ground because of its blunt judgments.Observers doubt that changes of the sort that Prime Minister Robert Fico envisions would be passed by parliament but they say the rhetoric used by the prime minister justifies some concern.The European Commission has announced that it has set up a scheme to generate humanitarian assistance for victims of the tsunami which struck the Pacific Islands...
