Vladimír Chovan
Vladimír Chovan (born September 26, 1963, in Smolenice, Czechoslovakia) is a Slovak politician (People's Party – Movement for a Democratic Slovakia) and was Minister of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic from 2009 to 2010. Chovan studied at the Slovak University of Agriculture, Faculty of Mechanization of Agriculture, Nitra, and finished in 1985. He is married and has two children.
He replaced Stanislav Becík as a result of to inner-party rivalries and was announced Minister of Agriculture by president Ivan Gašparovič September 23, 2009 and served until July 8, 2010, in the cabinet of Prime Minister Robert Fico.[1][2] He pledges for a change in the Common Agricultural Policy in the European Union.[3] Chovan refused denials that his ministry is involved in corruption.[4]
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ "Top agrar". 14 May 2018.
- ^ "Slovakia — Central Intelligence Agency". www.cia.gov. Archived from the original on 2007-06-12.
- ^ "Ministerstwo Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi - Portal Gov.pl".
- ^ "Special prosecutors to interview Vladimír Mečiar". April 2010.
External links
[edit]- Official government website depicting Chovan (in English)
- Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic (in Slovak)
- Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic (in English)
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