Slovak Parliament to Vote on Environment Minister's Dismissal June 1

Slovakia's parliament will debate a no-confidence motion against Environment Minister Tomáš Taraba on June 1 at 9 AM. The opposition party Progressive Slovakia (PS) has called for Taraba's dismissal, accusing him of failures in his ministerial duties and endangering EU funding for Slovakia. The vote represents the latest challenge to the current government coalition, which has faced multiple opposition attempts to remove individual ministers from office. Taraba, who serves in the coalition government led by Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer-SD party, would need to survive a majority vote in the National Council, Slovakia's parliament, to remain in his position.