On Saturday 21 March 2020, President Zuzana Čaputová appointed the government led by Prime Minister Igor Matovič. She wished the members of the new government all the best, but pointed out that the time and the situation were too precarious for anything other than a government that honoured the...

On 20 March 2020, following the inaugural meeting of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, President Zuzana Čaputová accepted the resignation of Peter Pellegrini’s government at the Presidential Palace. In her speech, she thanked the prime minister and the members of the government for...

On 16th March the president of the Slovak republic Zuzana Čaputová met Peter Pellegrini and Igor Matovič to discuss the transition of power. The president is going to open the constitutive assembly of the National Council of the Slovak Republic on 20 March and will appoint the new...

On Tuesday 10th of March 2020, Slovak president Zuzana Čaputová attended a ceremonial gathering at the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic in Brno marking a hundred years since the adoption of the Constitutional Charter of the Czechoslovak Republic. Her full speech is available here....

President Zuzana Čaputová assigned the leader of the OĽaNO movement (Ordinary People and Independent Personalities) Igor Matovič to propose the next government of the Slovak republic on Wednesday 4th of March. As she expressed, Matovič´s movement is the winner of the parliament elections and...

Democracy is chiefly about the spirit of freedom, justice, tolerance and solidarity, which have the defensive wall of the rule of law, President Zuzana Caputova said in the speech she delivered at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, adding we need responsible political leaders defending and...

To commemorate the 27th anniversary of the establishment of the Slovak Republic, the president of Slovak Republic Zuzana Čaputová conferred state honours on 20 personalities from social, cultural and sporting life, three of whom were honoured in memoriam. The honourees include several...

My dear fellow citizens,  I wish you a happy holiday afternoon. I am speaking to you at the beginning of the new year with that hope that is common to us all and which is my wish for you. May you be healthy and happy close to your loved ones, may you find pleasure in the little things that...

The American magazine The New Yorker has published a profile of President Zuzana Čaputová by the well-known Russian-American journalist and author of several award-winning books, Masha Gessen. They spoke together in the Presidential Palace shortly after the celebrations of the 30th...

President Zuzana Čaputová attended the meeting of NATO leaders held just outside London on Wednesday 4 December. She described it as a very constructive and open meeting.  She recalled that the way NATO looks today is the result of the democratic changes in Europe 30 years ago – the fall of...