The current affairs website Politico has rated President Zuzana Čaputová amongst the 28 most powerful people in Europe.  Their chart is topped by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the other personalities listed include the German chancellor Angela Merkel, the Russian...

The Slovak edition of Forbes magazine has lauded President Zuzana Čaputová as their Personality of the Year 2019. She accepted the award at a gala evening on Monday 02 December 2019. The magazine staff see in her a sign that change is possible and that there are different ways of doing...

On Saturday 16 November 2019, President Zuzana Čaputová commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution by lighting a candle on the Velvet Revolution Square in Bratislava and spoke at a concert held in the historic building of the Slovak National Theatre, “Thank you for making it...

On Saturday 09 November 2019, President Zuzana Čaputová commemorated the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. At the invitation of the German president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, she joined the other presidents of the V4 countries at an official ceremony at the Berlin Wall Memorial....

President Zuzana Čaputová commemorated the 101st anniversary of the foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic. On Monday she laid wreaths at the statues of T.G. Masaryk and M.R. Štefánik in the squares named after them in Bratislava. The president considers 28 October 1918 one of the most...

President Zuzana Čaputová attended the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito of Japan and the banquet marking the occasion at the Imperial Palace on 22 October 2019. She congratulated the new emperor on behalf of Slovakia and took the opportunity to meet with several heads of state. The president was...

On Monday 21 October 2019 President Zuzana Čaputová met the Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo. They talked about bilateral relations, economic cooperation and the challenges arising from environmental protection and the need to tackle climate change. She invited a...

President Zuzana Čaputová issued a statement on current events today after meeting with the minister of interior Minister Denisa Saková, the president of the Police Force Milan Lučanský and the first deputy to the prosecutor general Viera Kováčiková.    Ladies and...

The Gorilla case, the recordings from which were released today, has become synonymous with political corruption for a whole political generation. The difficulty of coming to terms with this case is demonstrated by the fact that five successive governments have failed to bring it to a resolution....

President Zuzana Čaputová attended the V4 Presidents Summit at Lány Castle near Prague on Wednesday and Thursday (2–3 October 2019). She thanked the President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman for his hospitality, organization and friendly welcome.  The president saw this year’s...