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Progresívne Slovensko
Progressive Slovakia (, PS) is a Liberalism, liberal and Social liberalism, social-liberal political party in Slovakia established in 2017. The party is led by Michal Šimečka, a former Vice-President of the European Parliament, Vice President of the European Parliament. It is a member of the Renew Europe group and is a full member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. PS currently has 6 MEPs: Ľudovít Ódor (former Prime Minister of Slovakia), Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová (a former journalist), Martin Hojsík, Michal Wiezik (both environmental activists), Ľubica Karvašová, and Lucia Yar. Zuzana Čaputová, the Former president of Slovakia who is also the co-founder and former deputy leader of PS who won the 2019 Slovak presidential election, was nominated by the party for the election, focusing her campaign on themes of anti-corruption, Environmental politics, environmentalism, and pro-Europeanism. In the National Council of Slovakia, National Counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Šimečka
Michal Šimečka (born 10 May 1984) is a Slovak politician, journalist, and researcher, who served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament between 2022 and 2023. He also became a Member of the European Parliament between 2019 and 2023. In 2020, Šimečka was elected vice-president of the European political group Renew Europe. He is a co-founder of the social-liberal Progressive Slovakia party, leading it from 2022. Early life and education Šimečka earned a bachelor's degree in political sciences and international relations from the Charles University in Prague in 2006. He obtained an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies at St Antony's College at the University of Oxford in 2008, before moving to Nuffield College, where he received a DPhil in Politics and International Relations in 2012. Political career Member of the European Parliament (2019–2023) Šimečka is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights and European Parliament Intergrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Council Of The Slovak Republic
The National Council of the Slovak Republic (, abbreviated to ''NR SR'') is the national parliament of Slovakia. It is unicameralism, unicameral and consists of 150 members, who are elected by universal suffrage under proportional representation with seats distributed via largest remainder method with Hagenbach-Bischoff quota every four years. Slovakia's parliament has been called the 'National Council' since 1 October 1992. From 1969 to 1992, its predecessor, the parliament of the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia, was called the Slovak National Council (). The National Council approves domestic legislation, constitutional laws, and the annual budget. Its consent is required to ratify international treaties, and is responsible for approving military operations. It also elects individuals to some positions in the executive and judiciary, as specified by law. The parliament building is in Bratislava, Slovakia's capital, next to Bratislava Castle in Alexander Dubček Square. Functio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucia Yar
Lucia Yar (born ''Mrázová''; born 1987, Snina) is a Slovak political analyst, expert on the European Union and international security, former journalist, and university lecturer. In the European Parliament elections of June 2024, she was elected as a member of the European Parliament as an independent expert for Progressive Slovakia. Early life She was born in Snina and has Rusyn and Goral roots. She studied at the Snina Gymnasium, where she co-founded a school student council, which later became a city student council. In 2009, she obtained a bachelor's degree from the Department of Journalism at the Faculty of Arts of Comenius University in Bratislava (FiF UK). She continued her master's studies in European studies at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of Comenius University (FSEV UK), graduating in 2011 with honors and the rector's award. She completed study programs in international security and European integration at Ghent University and the University of Hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ľubica Karvašová
Ľubica Karvašová (born 1987) is a Slovak politician of Progressive Slovakia who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. She previously served as European affairs advisor to prime ministers Igor Matovič, Eduard Heger and Ľudovít Ódor. Karvašová studied International Relations at the University of Economics in Bratislava and at Sorbonne. Karvašová is a granddaughter of Imrich Karvaš, the first governor of the National Bank of Slovakia National Bank of Slovakia (, NBS) is the national central bank for Slovakia within the Eurosystem. It was the Slovak central bank from 1993 to 2008, issuing the koruna. Since 2014, it has been Slovakia's national competent authority within Eur .... References 1987 births Living people Progressive Slovakia politicians 21st-century Slovak women politicians Women MEPs for Slovakia MEPs for Slovakia 2024–2029 University of Economics in Bratislava alumni Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3 alumni {{Slov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michal Wiezik
Michal Wiezik (born 14 June 1979) is a Slovak environmentalist and politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. Early life and education Born 14 June 1979 in Martin, Wiezik attended Viliam Paulíny Tóth grammar school and studied environmental protection at the Technical University in Zvolen. Following his studies, he obtained PhD. at the same university and became a professor there. In August 2023, he criticised the university for admitting a far right politician to its PhD program, despite Suja having no previous track record in environmental studies. Political career Apart from his committee assignments, Wiezik is part of the European Parliament Intergroup on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development. He is also part of the European Parliament Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas. On 6 December 2021, Wiezik left Democrats to join Progressive Slovakia. He later left the European People's Party to join the Renew E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Hojsík
Martin Hojsík (born 27 January 1977) is a Slovak activist, an environmental expert and a politician elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019. In addition to his committee assignments, Hojsík is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals and a member of the political group Renew Europe. He is also a vice chairman of the political party Progressive Slovakia and their expert on environmental issues and sustainability. In 2020, Hojsík appeared in the chart of American political opinion magazine Politico "20 MEPs to watch in 2020" and in the series of articles "''Changemakers''", where he was named as one of the MEPs, who will be the main leaders of positive changes in the fight against pesticides. He was the Chief Program Officer (CPO) and Executive Board member of the international charity FOUR PAWS. In the past, he worked on global campaigns for ActionAid International and Greenpeace International to change corporate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová
Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová (born 1989) is a former Slovak television editor, reporter, and presenter. She became a member of the European Parliament for the social-liberal Progressive Slovakia party in the June 2024 election. Early life and education Ostrihoňová was born on 3 February 1989 in Bratislava in what was at the time Czechoslovakia but is now the capital of Slovakia. She graduated from the International Baccalaureate Diploma programme at the Gymnasium Jur Hronec, a bilingual English-Slovak school. Ostrihoňová studied political science and history at New York University (NYU). She graduated "summa cum laude" in 2012 and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic society. Career Television Ostrihoňová started to work on television in 2013 on the Markíza TV station, where she was an editor in the news programme ''Televízne noviny'', focusing on health topics. In 2015, Ostrihoňová presented ''Showbiz noviny''. She hosted the talk show ''Sit down with Veron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Slovakia
The prime minister of Slovakia, officially the chairman of the government of the Slovak Republic (Slovak language, Slovak: ''Predseda vlády Slovenskej republiky''), commonly referred to in Slovakia as ''Predseda vlády'' or informally as ''Premiér'', is the Head of government, head of the Government of Slovakia, government of the Slovakia, Slovak Republic. Officially, the officeholder is the third-highest constitutional official in Slovakia after the President of Slovakia, president of the Republic (appointer) and List of speakers of Slovak parliaments, chairman of the National Council; in practice, the appointee is the country's leading political figure. Since the office was created in 1969, fifteen different people have served as head of government. Since 1993, when Slovakia gained independence, nine people have occupied the function. On 25 October 2023, Robert Fico became the prime minister of Slovakia. History The office of the prime minister of Slovakia was established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ľudovít Ódor
Ľudovít Ódor (; born 2 July 1976) is a Slovak economist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Slovakia from May to October 2023, heading a technocratic cabinet. From July to October 2023, he also served as Minister of the Interior. Prior to his appointment as prime minister, Ódor served as Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia, from 2018 to 2023. He was the first Slovak prime-minister from the ethnic Hungarian minority in Slovakia. Ódor led the liberal Progressive Slovakia's list for the 2024 European parliament election. Early life and education Ľudovít Ódor was born into an ethnically Hungarian family in the village of Veľké Kosihy (), near Komárno, on 2 July 1976. He finished his secondary studies at the Hungarian-language Selye János Gymnasium in his hometown. He attended Comenius University in Bratislava, graduating in 1999 with a master's degree in mathematics and management. In addition to his native Hungarian, he speaks Slovak and Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vice-President Of The European Parliament
There are fourteen vice-presidents of the European Parliament who sit in for the President of the European Parliament, president in presiding over the plenary of the European Parliament. Role Vice-presidents are members of the Bureau (European Parliament), Bureau and chair the plenary when the president is not in the chair. The president may also delegate any duty, task or power to one of the vice-presidents. Three vice-presidents, designated by the Conference of Presidents, traditionally have more power than the others; the right to be on the Codecision procedure, conciliation committee.New European Conservatives group in disarray over renegade MEP ANDREW WILLIS 14 July 2009 The vice-presidents are elected following the election of the president, which takes place every two and a half years or when nece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovakia
Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's mostly mountainous territory spans about , hosting a population exceeding 5.4 million. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, while the second largest city is Košice. The Slavs arrived in the territory of the present-day Slovakia in the 5th and 6th centuries. From the late 6th century, parts of modern Slovakia were incorporated into the Pannonian Avars, Avar Khaghanate. In the 7th century, the Slavs played a significant role in the creation of Samo's Empire. When the Avar Khaghanate dissolved in the 9th century, the Slavs established the Principality of Nitra before it was annexed by the Great Moravia, Principality of Moravia, which later became Great Moravia. When Great Moravia fell in the 10th century, the territory was integrated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of governance or public administration within a particular sovereign state. Local governments typically constitute a subdivision of a higher-level political or administrative unit, such as a nation or state. Local governments generally act within the powers and functions assigned to them by law or directives of a higher level of government. In Federation, federal states, local government generally comprises a third or fourth level of government, whereas in unitary states, local government usually occupies the second or third level of government. The institutions of local government vary greatly between countries, and even where similar arrangements exist, country-specific terminology often varies. Common designated names for different types of local government entities include county, counties, districts, city, cities, townships, towns, boroughs, Parish (administrative division), parishes, municipality, municipalities, mun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
