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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, right, welcomes Slovakia's Prime Minister Igor Matovic prior to a meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, July 16, 2020. (John Thys, Pool Photo via AP)

Slovakia’s PM survives parliamentary no-confidence vote

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Leader of the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities party Igor Matovic addresses his supporters, acknowledging preliminary results of the general election in Trnava, Slovakia, Sunday, March 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Slovakia’s populists win vote with anti-corruption stance

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People vote at a polling station during general elections in Trnava, Slovakia, Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. Slovaks vote Saturday in parliamentary elections widely expected to unseat the country's long-dominant but scandal-tainted center-left party that governed on an anti-immigration platform, in favor of a coalition headed by center-right populists. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Exit polls: Opposition appears to be winning Slovakia vote

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FILE - In this Friday, March 16, 2018 file photo, candles are placed in memory of slain journalist and his fiancee during a rally in Bratislava, Slovakia. The 2018 killings of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, Martina Kusnirova, triggered major street protests and a political crisis that led to the collapse of Prime Minister Robert Fico's three-party coalition government. Slovaks vote Saturday Feb. 29, 2020, in parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Center-right opposition leads polls ahead of Slovakian vote

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Slovakia’s parliament rejects women’s rights treaty

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Slovaks mark anniversary of slayings of journalist, fiancee

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A general view during a Parliamentary session in Bratislava, Slovakia, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. Lawmakers in Slovakia are scheduled to debate a proposed law that would compel women seeking an abortion to first have an ultrasound and listen to the heartbeat of the embryo or fetus, a move many groups have decried as a backward step for women’s rights. The bill was submitted by three members of the conservative Slovak National Party, who wrote that it is intended “to ensure that women are informed about the current stage of their pregnancy” before having an abortion. (Pavol Zachar/TASR via AP)

Slovakia rejects bill requiring ultrasound before abortion

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A general view during a Parliamentary session in Bratislava, Slovakia, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. Lawmakers in Slovakia are scheduled to debate a proposed law that would compel women seeking an abortion to first have an ultrasound and listen to the heartbeat of the embryo or fetus, a move many groups have decried as a backward step for women’s rights. The bill was submitted by three members of the conservative Slovak National Party, who wrote that it is intended “to ensure that women are informed about the current stage of their pregnancy” before having an abortion. (Pavol Zachar/TASR via AP)

Slovakia may force women to get pre-abortion ultrasound

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Slovak far-right lawmaker loses seat for racism toward Roma

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Polish President Andrzej Duda, right, and Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova, left, attend a military welcome ceremony at the presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, July 15, 2019. Caputova is staying for an official visit in Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Slovakian president urges region to pursue EU goals

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Ballots are being prepared ahead of Sunday's European Elections, in Rozzano, near Milan, Italy, Saturday, May 25, 2019. Some 400 million Europeans from 28 countries head to the polls from Thursday to Sunday to choose their representatives at the European Parliament for the next five years. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

The Latest: Salvini says populists will control 150 EU seats

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Marian Kotleba chairman of the far right People's Party Our Slovakia, walks to the Supreme Court in Bratislava, Slovakia, Monday, April 29, 2019. The Supreme Court is considering a request from the Prosecutor General to ban Marian Kotleba's parliamentary far-right party. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Slovak court rejects to ban parliamentary far right party

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Slovak prime minister to meet with Trump in May

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Slovak lawmakers reject international women’s rights treaty

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In this file picture taken on Saturday, March 16, 2019, Presidential candidate Zuzana Caputova answers questions to media as she arrives at her election headquarters to watch the results of the first round of the presidential election in Bratislava, Slovakia. Slovakia could get its first woman president as voters elect a new head of state on Saturday March 30. The leading contenders are Zuzana Caputova, an environmental activist who is in favor of gay rights and opposes a ban on abortion in this conservative Roman Catholic country, and Maros Sefcovic, an establishment figure who is the European Commission Vice-President. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek/File)

Upstart liberal vs establishment in Slovak president vote

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In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, European Commissioner for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Sefcovic is one of the favorite candidate to succeed Slovakia's President Andrej Kiska in the upcoming elections. Slovakia holds the presidential elections on Saturday, March 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo/File)

Slovakia could get its first woman president in ballot

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In this photo taken on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019, Gregory McDonald, CEO of GoodFish, an injection molding business that supplies the auto industry, speaks to the Associated Press in Cannock, England. Worryingly for McDonald, some 30 percent of the molded plastic parts his company makes ultimately go to carmakers who say they will face a catastrophe if Britain leaves the European Union without an agreement on future trade. So Goodfish, a nine-year-old company with three plants in England, is preparing to expand in Slovakia, an EU country where Volkswagen, Kia, Peugeot-Citroen and Jaguar Land Rover produce more than 1 million vehicles a year. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)

U.K. auto industry under siege as Brexit pressure escalates

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Participant of a conference organized by the Germany-based foundation European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative (EJCI) walks past tombstones at a jewish cemetery near the town of Senec, Slovakia, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Amid an increase number in the anti-Semitic acts in some European countries, a project has been launched to apply drones and contemporary technology to save Jewish cemeteries in places whose original Jewish population was wiped out in the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Drones launched to help preserve Europe’s Jewish cemeteries

By KAREL JANICEK - Associated Press

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech at the Freedom Gate memorial in Bratislava, Slovakia, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019. Pompeo on Tuesday invoked the 30th anniversary of the demise of communism to implore countries in Central Europe to resist Chinese and Russian influence. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Mike Pompeo warns eastern Europe on Chinese and Russian meddling

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EU’s commission vice-president to run for Slovak president

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