2015 in Slovakia

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2015 is the first full year of the 4th President Andrej Kiska, elected as an independent candidate in the 2014.

2015 is the last full year of the 8th National Council. Next parliamentary elections will be held on or before 5 March 2016. The Robert Fico's Second Cabinet, elected in 2012 consisted solely from Direction – Social Democracy party (Slovak: Smer – sociálna demokracia, abbr. Smer-SD), continues.

Direction – Social Democracy (Slovak: Smer – sociálna demokracia, abbr. Smer-SD) – Robert Fico
Christian Democratic Movement (Slovak: Kresťanskodemokratické hnutie, abbr. KDH) – Ján Figeľ
Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (Slovak: Obyčajní Ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti, abbr. OĽaNO) – Igor Matovič
Most–Híd – Béla Bugár
Slovak Democratic and Christian Union – Democratic Party (Slovak: Slovenská demokratická a kresťanská únia – Demokratická strana, abbr. SDKÚ-DS) – Pavol Frešo
Freedom and Solidarity (Slovak: Sloboda a Solidarita, abbr. SaS) – Richard Sulík

Network (Slovak: SIEŤ) – Radoslav Procházka
Slovak Civic Coalition (Slovak: Slovenská občianska koalícia, abbr. SKOK!) – Juraj Miškov
Slovak National Party (Slovak: Slovenská národná strana, abbr. SNS) – Andrej Danko
Party of the Hungarian Community (Slovak & Hungarian: Strana maďarskej komunity – Magyar Közösség Pártja, abbr. SMK-MKP) – József Berényi

Bratislava Self-governing Region – Pavol Frešo (coalition of SDKÚ-DS, KDH, Most–Híd, SMK-MKP, OKS, SaS, SZ)
Trnava Self-governing Region – Tibor Mikuš (Independent)
Trenčín Self-governing Region – Jaroslav Baška (Smer-SD)
Nitra Self-governing Region – Milan Belica (coalition of Smer-SD, SNS, ASV)
Banská Bystrica Self-governing Region – Marian Kotleba (ĽSNS)
Žilina Self-governing Region – Juraj Blanár (coalition of HZD, SNS, Smer-SD)
Košice Self-governing Region – Zdenko Trebuľa (Smer-SD)
Prešov Self-governing Region – Peter Chudík (coalition of Smer-SD, HZD, SNS)

January 1 – President Andrej Kiska in his New Year's speech stressed need to fight corruption, need for political activism, reducing bureaucracy. Kiska also described situation in Ukraine as a breach of Ukrainian territorial sovereignty and interference with the political independence of the country.
January 27 – 46th Session of the National Council (to February 13)

February 1 – Regulation No. 1 of 2015 of the Slovak Republic Ministry of Interior on granting state citizenship of the Slovak Republic for specific reasons came into force. The regulation allows granting the citizenship to former Slovakia's citizens who lost citizenship after January 1, 1993, including those, who lost citizenship due to acquisition of foreign country's citizenship, under the Act No. 250/2010 Coll. of laws Amending and Supplementing the Act No. 40/1993 on State Citizenship
February 7 – Slovak same-sex marriage referendum, 2015 failed with only 21.4% of citizens casting a vote
February 18 – 47th Session of the National Council

1 February – Martin Ťapák, film director, actor, dancer and choreographer (b. 1926)
15 February – Michal Benčík, lawyer, politician of former Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and later Party of the Democratic Left, member of Czechoslovak Federal Assembly and Slovak National Council (b. 1932)

15 March – Ján Kulich, sculptor (b. 1930)
15 March – Marián Mikluš, army major-general and Chief of the General Staff in 1998 (b. 1953)
22 March – Peter Pišťanek, writer (b. 1960)
26 March – Kornel Földvári, poet, journalist, art and literature critic and translator (b. 1932)
27 March – Martin Porubjak, college professor, dramaturge, playwright, theater and film scriptwriter and director (b. 1944)
29 March – Ivan Niňaj, sports commentator (b. 1954)

11 April – Braňo Hochel, writer, university associate professor, literary scholar, translator and politician of Democratic Party (b. 1951)
26 April – Pavol Sedláček, medical doctor, politician of former People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia and Chairman of Trenčín Self-governing Region in 2006–2013 (b. 1949)

2015 in Europe
Sovereign states	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom
States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Kosovo Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria
Dependencies and other entities	Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Svalbard
Other entities	European Union

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