Far right MEP apologises for lies

MEP Milan Uhrík of the far right People's Party Our Slovakia apologised to the Slovak National Uprising Museum's general director Stanislav Mičev over his statement from May 2017. Uhrík had said that Mičev had been a communist era "State Security worker, who reported people and snitched on them for money". "The statements by Mr. Uhrík significantly affected my election bid for Banská Bystrica regional governor," wrote Mičev on social media in his reaction, adding that he "lodged a criminal complaint in July 2017...once he realized that my arguments to his statements were incontrovertible, he proposed a settlement." In his complaint, Mičev demanded a public apology and a symbolic compensation worth one euro. Back then, Uhrík responded: "I certainly won't be apologising."