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Countrywide Events
Western SLOVAKIA
Construction of R1 dual carriageway to start after financial closure
Construction of the R1 dual carriageway section through private sources could start after bank houses prepare the project's financing. The Director General of the National Highway Company (NDS) and Government Plenipotentiary for Highways Igor Choma anticipates that banks would ensure funding within two weeks of the Cabinet's signing of the second annex to the R1 concession agreement, namely by late July, newswire SITA wrote.
Slovakia may withdraw from AAU sale contract, Prime Minister Fico admits
Prime Minister Robert Fico admitted on July 23 that the state may withdraw from the controversial contract for the sale of excess AAU emission allowances of CO2, purchased by the US company Interblue Group last year, newswire SITA wrote.
Railway company accepts reservations of Prime Minister Fico about fare hike
Prime Minister Robert Fico said on July 22 that he opposes the increase of passenger railway fares; a plan published by the national railway company earlier this week. Fico said he sees no reason for it and that his government certainly would not approve it, news wire TASR wrote.
Economy Ministry: More jobs this week; still not enough
The number of available jobs has risen this week by 170 to a total of 7,072, the Economy Ministry said on July 23. However, the number of unemployed in Slovakia remains several times higher than the jobs available, wrote newswire TASR.
Culture minister Maďarič: OSCE analysis lends approval to amended State Language Act
An analysis of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) High Commissioner Office for national minorities gives a thumbs up to the amended version of the Slovak State Language, Slovakia's Culture Minister Marek Maďarič said following the official release of the analysis, wrote newswire TASR.
Taxpayers submit over one million income tax returns
Tax entities submitted 1,084,407 income tax returns for last year as of mid-July of this year. For the first six months of last year, their number reached 981,900, according to the data released by Slovakia’s Tax Directorate.
Procurement office finds Interior Ministry's tender discriminatory
Slovakia’s procurement authority has ordered the Interior Ministry to cancel its public tender to select a contractor for provision of translation and interpreting services worth over €1 million. The Public Procurement Office (ÚVO) said the tender was defined in a discriminating manner, newswire SITA wrote.
Labor Minister Viera Tomanová claims poverty rate in Slovakia in decline
Slovakia’s Labor Minister Viera Tomanová claims that the poverty rate in Slovakia shows a sinking trend. The statement came as a response to representatives of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) slammed Prime Minister Robert Fico for not devoting sufficient attention to the problem of the growing unemployment rate in Slovakia, newswire SITA wrote.
Fico unveils football stadium project as major investment during downturn
Packaged as a public investment needed at the time of global economic downturn, the National Football Stadium Project was launched on July 21 after the Government approved €69.12 million subsidy for the city earlier this month, news wire TASR wrote.
Hungary calls on Slovakia to ditch revision to the State Language Act
Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Katalin Szili sent her Slovak counterpart Pavol Paška a joint declaration of Hungarian parliamentary parties calling on Slovakia towithdraw the amendment to the State Language Act, news wire TASR reported.
Prime Minister Fico: “We don't live under Hungarian Empire anymore”
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico fiercely rejected the joint declaration of Hungarian parliamentary parties calling on Slovakia to withdraw the amendment to the State Language Act. The Slovak government will not succumb to pressure and will not repeal the revision to the State Language Act, said Fico at a special press conference, according to news wire SITA.
Slovakia signs agreement with United Nations on housing 101 refugees
SLOVAKIA will accommodate 101 Palestinian refugees in Slovakia for six months, according to an agreement with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) that Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák signed on July 21, news wire TASR wrote.
Injured Englishman now well enough to be transferred home
The condition of patients treated at Trenčín Faculty Hospital after the collapse of a huge tent at the open-air Pohoda music festival that left one person dead, has stabilised and is not serious, senior physician Terézia Drobná told news wire TASR on July 20. "On Sunday [July 19] we released one patient and three were transferred home,” Drobná said. “On Monday [July 20] we released five patients, with nine remaining in the hospital. All are being treated in the trauma surgical ward."
People gather on square to express support for Pohoda
More than a hundred people holding candles gathered on Hviezdoslav Square in Bratislava on July 19 evening to remember the young man who died at the Pohoda music festival on July 18 and express their support to the people who were injured and for the festival itself, news wire TASR wrote.
Austrian business execs share their experiences in Slovakia
ITS GEOGRAPHICAL proximity makes Slovakia an obvious target for Austrian investments. While some Austrian business people say they have had experiences similar to what they have seen in other countries of central Europe, others have some complaints about Slovak bureaucracy and a poor level of legal security.
Austria: General facts
Political system: federal parliamentary republic
Something is rotten
OUTSIDE of the Shakespearean context, the phrase “something is rotten in the state of …” has evolved into a cliché that journalists use to describe deeply-rooted decay in a certain state of affairs or even in the whole of society. Although clichés tend to devalue textual invention, how can one resist using this particular phrase while reading the words of Anna Benešová, a judge of the Bratislava Regional Court, who in an interview with the daily Sme spoke about the pressures that her bosses exerted on her to favour the arguments of the then-justice minister and currently head of the Supreme Court, Štefan Harabin. So here it is: something is rotten in the state of the judiciary in Slovakia.
Recent reforms in construction law in Ukraine
To reduce the negative impact of the global financial crisis on the construction industry in Ukraine several legislative acts have recently been adopted.
Deficit pains growing in Slovakia
THE DARK cloud of growing public finance deficits is hanging over many EU countries and the European Commission is warning that by the end of the year it might bring some additional pressure on member states to take action against their deficits.
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