Government plans to restructure public broadcasting in Slovakia. RTVS is to be formally dissolved and transformed into a new institution called “STaR’ President Zuzana Caputova criticized this in a statement published by the TASR news agency.
More than a thousand RTVs employees signed a protest call by Thursday and did not rule out a strike. The liberal and conservative opposition had been accusing the coalition of two social democratic and one right-wing populist parties of wanting to create a government propaganda station.