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Up to 45 per cent of respondents in a new survey said they had faced discrimination in the past year for their belonging to LGBTIQ community. The EU average is significantly lower. Almost one in five Slovaks from the rainbow community also said they have suicidal thoughts.
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Representatives of Hlas announced that the new draft of the Ministry of Interior is intended to reflect the reservations the EU had towards a similar legislation in Hungary. Both the labelling and the power to dissolve a NGO could be removed from it. In the meantime, the Council of Europe has called for the law withdrawal since it may have "a paralysing effect on the civil society".
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"Slovakia has clearly chosen the Hungarian way. We are held back by the economic sustainability of online media, which is a huge difference from Hungary. The second factor is a very strong civil society and the third one is a less monolithic political power," says PAVOL SZALAI in an interview.
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The fourth government of Robert Fico brought a drop of 12 places in the ranking of Reporters Without Borders. From the 17th place, we dropped to the 29th. The organisation has not yet taken into account the changes in the functioning of the public broadcaster RTVS or the draft law about NGOs.
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Prime Minister Robert Fico has met with his Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal in Michalovce, where he assured him of Slovakia's strong support for Kyiv. At the same time, he signed a document, in which he condemned the Russian invasion and confirmed that Crimea and Donbas are part of Ukraine.
