PM Robert Fico discusses corruption at meeting with anti-corruption council

Prime Minister Robert Fico met with representatives of the Council of Europe's Group of States Against Corruption (abbreviated GRECO) to inform its representatives about the climate in which Slovak society has found itself since 2018. This happened after GRECO called on the Slovak Republic to fully implement its recommendations in the sphere of corruption prevention.

According to GRECO, Slovakia should pass a code of conduct for top state officials, introduce an appropriate monitoring and enforcement mechanism, and expand the system of property declarations for top officials and police officers. The main topic of the meeting was the fact that the Slovak government has so far fully implemented only three of the 21 measures proposed in 2019.

At the meeting with GRECO representatives, Fico mainly criticised political steps of the previous government. According to him, the current government has decided to include the fight against corruption in its programme declaration and has presented concrete measures that it wants to implement.

Source: TASR/TA3