Archive of articles - September 2007, page 4

Sperian plant moves from China to Slovakia

Foreign Affairs Ministry supports Myanmar's protestors

Contentious social insurance amendment passes to second reading

Farkašová elected to WHO Regional Committee for Europe

Crown already trading at over Sk34/euro

Slovak ambassador defends Beneš resolution in Budapest

Dzurinda: Fico got a slap from Mečiar

Financial employees earn most

Malinová evidence is “lost"

Town suggests taking children

IN NOVÉ ZÁMKY, Roma people who were evicted from their homes and moved to nearby villages for not paying their rent have been living in the square in front of the Town Office for more than a week.The houses where they used to live were sold by the Nové Zámky Town Office to a new owner, who moved them out.

Auditors have become recognised profession: Bošela

STARTING next year, auditors in Slovakia will get a new public control body for their profession: the Audit Supervision Office. The office will also bear the final responsibility for issuing certificates for the auditor's profession, including auditors and auditing companies into relevant lists, and adopting of auditing standards and a code of ethics, the SITA newswire wrote.

MPs vote on 'Father of the Nation'

A BILL that would officially recognise Andrej Hlinka, the priest who led the party that after his death went on to lead the fascist Slovak State, as "Father of the Nation" has been passed for its second reading.The bill submitted by the Slovak National Party (SNS) would also declare Hlinka's mausoleum in Ružomberok to be a site of honour.

Slovak Telekom won't have to pay antitrust fine

Around Slovakia

Fico torn between tunnels and euro

SO HERE it is: Eurostat has cast doubts on last year's public finance deficit for Slovakia. Apparently it was 0.7 percentage points higher than reported and reached 4.1 percent of the GDP - much higher than the three-percent limit Slovakia must meet to adopt the euro.

Taxes get more lucrative for government

CIGARETTES and tobacco products could get more expensive next year.Parliament moved the draft revision to the law on the excise tax on tobacco and tobacco products to the second reading in mid-September, which would introduce higher excise taxes as of January 1, 2008.

FinMin: Slovakia can jump over deficit hurdle

THE COUNTRY's brightening prospects of meeting the inflation criterion for joining the eurozone have been overshadowed by a less optimistic development: the public finance deficit criterion, which seemed easily reachable, might slip away if the EU statistics authority requests a revision to the numbers the country has submitted.

No roof over their heads

UP TO 50 Roma people in Nové Zámky have been sleeping in the square in front of the Town Hall in unsanitary conditions. It's their protest against being evicted from their homes for not paying rent.

Still nearly an 'investor's paradise'

THOUGH the Robert Fico government has made changes to major tax, labour and social security laws that have not really pleased the business community, market watchers and investment professionals say Slovakia is still attractive for foreign investors.