Culture Minister concerned about RTVS

Culture Minister Marek Maďarič (Smer-SD) has misgivings over events which have taken place within the public service broadcaster RTVS in recent days, he stated before Wednesday's Cabinet session. "It started when the Slovak National Party (SNS) leader [Andrej Danko] told us about his idea to nationalise RTVS, then an MP from the same party heavily criticised RTVS' editors and subsequently, and I don't claim it necessarily relates to each other, their work on an investigative television programme was somehow restricted and completely halted in the end," said Maďarič, who asked the RTVS Director General, Jaroslav Rezník, to calm the situation down as soon as possible. Recently, the state-run broadcaster postponed an investigative TV programme titled "Reporters" and merged its staff with another team involved in producing a different programme.