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Mečiar denies any link to dubious sale of land in High Tatras

Vladimír Mečiar, the chairman of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), announced after a session of the Coalition Council on December 1 that he was not co-operating with any private companies and nor was he personally linked to any company.

2. dec 2009

Median Sk. poll: Smer would have won election on 41.5 percent

If a general election had been held in around October, the winner would have been the largest coalition party, Smer, with 41.5 percent of the votes, according to a recent poll carried out by Median Sk.

2. dec 2009

Slovak ambassador to EU: Lisbon Treaty makes EU members work on common objectives

With the Lisbon Treaty coming into force on December 1, the European Union is gaining the opportunity to devote itself to issues through which it can explain the importance of the EU to its citizens, said Slovak ambassador to the EU Ivan Korčok on December 1.

2. dec 2009

Danube Wings airline announces its plans in Slovakia

Danube Wings airline is starting its winter season tickets sales. The company will expand its schedule with destinations in Italy (Olbia, Catania) and Spain (Palma de Mallorca), the SITA newswire wrote on December 1.

1. dec 2009

Household electricity prices to shrink 2.87 percent on average in 2010

The price of electricity for Slovak households will drop 2.87 percent on average as of next year, the SITA newswire wrote. The head of the Regulatory Office for Network Industries (ÚRSO), Jozef Holjenčík, specified that if alternative suppliers are also considered the decrease in electricity prices for next year is more than 3 percent on average. Next year, mainly so-called large households that use electric heating should benefit from lower electricity prices.

1. dec 2009

Slovakia buys novel flu vaccines from French company Sanofi Pasteur

The French company Sanofi Pasteur will supply vaccines against the novel flu to Slovakia. The company and the State Material Reserves Administration signed the deal on Monday, November 30, the SITA newswire reported.

1. dec 2009

Council of Europe Advisory Committee arrives in Slovakia

A three-member delegation of the Council of Europe Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities arrived in Slovakia on Monday, November 30, to evaluate the situation in Slovakia vis-a-vis its commitments to this international convention, the TASR newswire was told by Slovakia's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Peter Stano. “The delegation will meet representatives of the ethnic minorities living in Slovakia, representatives of the central state bodies and municipal bodies, non-governmental organisations and research institutes, members of parliament, Ombudsman Pavel Kandráč, and will also visit Košice and Šamorín,” said Stano.

1. dec 2009

NGO examines costs of websites developed by Slovak ministries

Analysts of the Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik, an NGO, made a survey concerning procurement costs of websites of Slovak ministries. As much as €73,058 is the difference between the most expensive and the cheapest websites, which departments of the Slovak government produced for EU co-financed operational programmes, the SITA newswire wrote.

1. dec 2009

Slovak Culture Ministry finishes instructions for State Language Act

The Culture Ministry has drawn up a methodical instruction for the State Language Act, ministry spokesman Jozef Bednár told the TASR newswire on November 30.

1. dec 2009

Most-Híd political party says oil pipeline could endanger drinking water

The Most-Híd political party does not intend to wait until the Slovak government grants construction approval for a crude oil pipeline through Žitný Ostrov in sourthern Slovakia which the party says could endanger Slovakia's drinking-water reservoirs, said Zsolt Simon, an independent MP and member of Most-Hid in Bratislava on November 30, the TASR newswire reported.

1. dec 2009

Court orders owners of Pohoda concert tent to pay damages

The German owner of a large concert tent that collapsed at Slovakia's biggest open-air music festival Pohoda in Trenčín in July was ordered by a court to pay €6,639 to the organisers of the event, the SITA newswire reported.

1. dec 2009

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