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Foreign bidders interested in DVB-T tender again
The Austrian company Osterreichische Rundfunksender GmbH & Co KG (ORS) has said it is still interested in implementing digital television and radio broadcasting for all households in Slovakia after the original tender was cancelled, the SITA wrote.
Slovak Cabinet recalls Viliam Turský from state secretary post to appoint him minister
At its regular meeting on Wednesday, May 20, the Slovak cabinet recalled Viliam Turský from his current post as state secretary (deputy minister) at the Agriculture Ministry. Slovak President Ivan Gašparovič is expected to appoint him to the post of environment minister later on Wednesday.
Slovak Minister Igor Štefanov faces another attempt to oust him on Wednesday
Construction and Regional Development Minister Igor Štefanov (a nominee of the Slovak National Party (SNS)) will face an attempt by the opposition to dismiss him in parliament on Wednesday, May 20, at 14:30, the second such move against him since he took up his post in April.
Slovak ministers Lajčák and Jahnátek present Bratislava’s energy authority bid
Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák and Economy Minister Ľubomír Jahnátek on Tuesday, May 19, presented a bid by Slovakia to locate the headquarters of the Agency for Co-operation among Energy Regulators (ACER) in Bratislava, the Foreign Affairs Ministry told TASR on the same day.
Slovakia’s unemployment rate 10.92 percent in April
The unemployment rate in Slovakia reached 10.92 percent in April, the Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Centre announced on May 19.
Rudolf Pučík: Police officer's complaint about Ján Slota is part of ‘witch-hunt’
The Interior Ministry should have waited for relevant evidence that governing-coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) party chairman Ján Slota did indeed insult and call a female police officer by vulgar names in late April, SNS vice-chairman and MP Rudolf Pučík said on May 19 in response to reports in the Sme daily on the same day.
Constitutional Court to decide on Special Court’s fate Wednesday
Slovakia's Constitutional Court is expected to decide on Wednesday, May 20, whether it will agree to a proposal lodged by a group of 46 MPs from the ruling coalition to have several provisions of the law establishing the Special Court and the Special Prosecutor Office declared ‘anti-constitutional’.
Slovakia’s monitored prices unchanged in May
Prices of selected goods and services, monitored by the Slovak Statistics Office in connection with the euro switchover, have remained unchanged in the first ten days of May following a moderate growth in the previous period, the SITA newswire reported.
Opposition criticises proposed law on ‘origin of assets’
If Slovakia was a democratic state where justice and the courts function reliably, we would need no law on the origin of assets, said Peter Miššík, an MP for the Slovak Christian and Democratic Union (SDKÚ), as quoted by the SITA newswire.
Environmental activists concerned about contamination in east Slovakia
The civic association Stop the Triangle of Death (Stop trojuholníku smrti) and the NGOs Friends of Earth and Greenpeace have sent an open letter to the Prime Minister Robert Fico on May 19 calling on the government to take concrete steps towards decontaminating the eastern region of Slovakia from polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the TASR newswire reported.
Construction ministry terminates bulletin-board tender contract
Slovak Construction and Regional Development Minister Igor Štefanov (SNS nominee) closed an agreement on May 18 to end the contract with the consortium of companies including Zamedia, Consulting&Management, European Consultants Organisation, and Avocat, the ministry spokesperson Dagmar Vanečková told the TASR newswire.
Slovaks receive two awards for environmental films
A film about Slovakia's tallest mountain range, the High Tatras, was among the award winners at the 15th annual international environmental film festival Envirofilm 2009, which took place recently in the shade of that mountain range in the town of Vysoké Tatry, the TASR newswire wrote.
Prime Minister Fico says SNS has proposed new Environment Minister
The Slovak National Party (SNS) has proposed that current Agriculture Ministry State Secretary Viliam Turský should become the new Environment Minister, replacing Ján Chrbet, who was dismissed in early May, Prime Minister Robert Fico announced on Monday, May 18. Fico also said that he will take 24 hours to consider whether he will propose Turský's appointment to President Ivan Gašparovič, the TASR newswire wrote. Chrbet was dismissed due to a controversy over the sale of carbon-dioxide emissions quotas last year to a formerly unknown company at a price considerably lower than those charged by other countries.
Criminal complaint filed over alleged Mafia threats on Slovak judge
The vice-chair of the Civic Conservative Party (OKS), Ondrej Dostál, has filed a criminal complaint in connection with information in the media concerning alleged pressure exerted by the Mafia on Constitutional Court judge Ladislav Orosz, including an alleged attempt to poison his wife, Dostál confirmed to the TASR newswire on May 18.
Crisis cramps dog shelters
THE ECONOMIC crisis is impacting several animal rescue centres which are dealing with a lack of space for abandoned animals. The ČTK newswire reported that interest in adopting dogs has been declining while the number of unwanted animals keeps rising.
Lajčák leads delegation to EU Council Session
Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák is leading the Slovak delegation at the regular session of the EU's General Affairs and External Relations Council on May 18 and 19 in Brussels, ministry spokesman Ján Škoda told the TASR newswire.
SMK’s chairman says party will not campaign as opposite of SNS
The opposition ethnic-Hungarian SMK party will not present itself as the polar opposite of the co-ruling Slovak National Party (SNS), SMK chairman Pál Csáky told the TASR newswire. “We [SMK], as a member of the European People's Party (EPP) caucus along with SDKÚ and KDH, are interested in winning more seats than [governing-coalition party] Smer, which means to show that the Slovak Right is more powerful than the Left,” said Csáky at the SMK Republic Council in Rožňava on May 16.
Slovakia’s service sector is secure place for investment
Among developing economies, Slovakia is the most attractive investment destination for the services sector according to this year's PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) EM20 Index report, which tracks investment risk in developing markets for both production and services, reported the TASR newswire. PwC has updated its rankings because of rapidly changing conditions related to the financial and economic crisis. The importance of knowing the risk rate when investing, according to PwC, is even more important in this period of crisis than in a period of prosperity, wrote TASR.
VW restarts production at Bratislava plant on May 18
Volkswagen's plant in Bratislava restarts production on May 18, the TASR newswire was told by the company's spokesman Vladimír Machalík. Production at the factory was suspended for the entire previous week as a consequence of the global economic crisis, following two other manufacturing interruptions between February 16-25 and April 6-17. “Both production lines at the Volkswagen Slovakia plant in Bratislava will restart on Monday morning. The company used the interruption to prepare the plant for production of the new small family cars,” said Machalík.
Celebrating St. Urban, the patron saint of wine growers
IT HAS become a tradition that wine makers on the Small Carpathian Wine Route open their wine cellars two times each year. The first event this year marks St. Urban of Langres, the patron saint of wine growers, and as many as 101 wine cellars from Bratislava to Trnava will be open for tastings by wine lovers on May 23.
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