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(Reuters) -Slovakia’s president said on Friday she would likely veto the government’s planned fast-track changes to criminal law that include scrapping a special prosecutor’s office that has focused on corruption, saying the plan needed proper debate. Zuzana Caputova said the proposed changes included unacceptable political meddling in personnel matters, threatened to weaken the position of whistle-blowers and could lead to a halt in the inflow of European Union funds. The European Commission, which has clashed with EU members Poland and Hungary in the past over rule-of-law issues, has urged S…

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