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Slovak Roma community rejects SNS statement

The Association of Roma Employers has said that statements by Slovak National Party (SNS) Deputy Chairwoman Anna Belousovová on January 26 about what she called the "Roma crime rate" would increase the resentment of society toward a group of inhabitants who live among the poorest conditions and heighten the tension between the majority population and the Roma minority.

SDKÚ accuses Kaliňák of mobilising police support for him

Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák is using police trade unions to secure the participation of policemen in a rally to support him before a parliamentary no-confidence vote planned for Friday, January 29, the opposition Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) has claimed.

Main truckers’ group not invited for talks with Slovak Prime Minister

Trucks and buses will not pay the new electronic road toll unless vehicles use the entire length of a first-category road toll section, Prime Minister Robert Fico announced at a news conference on Thursday, January 28, following his meeting with representatives of some truckers' associations, the National Highway Company and the toll-scheme operator SkyToll.

Opposition MPs say parts of toll system contract remain confidential

Key parts of the contract between the National Highway Company (NDS) and operator of Slovakia’s new electronic road toll system, SkyToll, remain confidential, opposition MPs said after a parliamentary inquiry at NDS held on January 27, the TASR newswire reported.

Slovak PM Fico attacks SDKÚ; party says it will file criminal complaint

According to Prime Minister Robert Fico, it is quite likely that Slovakia‘s strongest opposition party, the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ), is controlled by some fictictious, no-asset "mailbox" companies based in London, managed by directors sitting in tax havens and having accounts with banks in Switzerland or elsewhere abroad, the TASR newswire wrote. Fico said at a news conference on Wednesday, January 27, that he makes such a claim based on new information concerning SDKÚ's financial background that keeps rising to the surface. Fico added that the money may have flowed from commissions paid for privatising Slovakia’s strategic property when SDKÚ was in power between 1998 and 2006. He claims that the owner of SDKÚ's logo is an English firm headquartered in the same location as Allied Wings, to which the party sent more than half a million euros in 2004. The financial transfer was allegedly made to pay off a loan previously taken to finance the party.

Slovak truckers announce total strike for February 1

The Union of Slovak Road Transporters (UNAS) announced on the afternoon of January 27 that its truckers will go on strike as of February 1 and that the strike will be in accordance with the Slovak Constitution, the TASR newswire reported. The step is aimed at the re-establishment of acceptable conditions for the transportation sector following the controversial launch of Slovakia’s electronic toll system on January 1 the road carriers say.

Slovakia will send more troops to Afghanistan

Slovakia will dispatch another 100 soldiers to Afghanistan later this year, Defence Minister Jaroslav Baška said after government's session on Wednesday, January 27, the TASR newswire wrote.

Economy Ministry State Secretary resigns from post after indictment

The State Secretary of the Economy Ministry, Pavol Krištof, has resigned from his post even though – according to a statement written by Movement for Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) spokeswoman Soňa Jantoláková provided to the SITA newswire – Krištof says he did not commit the crime that he is accused of and will defend himself in a court trial.

Dzurinda says SDKÚ cannot answer all journalists’ questions about party financing

Slovakia’s strongest opposition party, the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ), is not able to answer all journalists' questions about the party's financing in the early days of the party a decade ago, said SDKÚ head Mikuláš Dzurinda at a press conference in Bratislava on January 26 – adding that he's sorry about this, as he would like to furnish proof that the party has always been aboveboard, the TASR newswire wrote.

Polish LOT Airlines to start Bratislava-Warsaw flights on May 17

Bratislava's M.R. Štefánik Airport (BTS) will welcome a new carrier - Poland's LOT Airlines – which will introduce a new route from Bratislava to Warsaw on May 17, representatives of BTS and LOT announced at a press conference on January 26, the TASR newswire wrote.

Cabinet approves re-evaluation of Slovakia’s subsistence level program

At its on January 27 meeting, Slovakia’s cabinet approved a draft new concept for the country’s subsistence level scheme, the SITA newswire wrote.

Ethnic tensions, especially Roma issue, seen as most serious social conflict in Slovakia

Slovaks regard ethnic tensions as more powerful than other kinds of social conflict in Slovakia, according to the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) 2009-2010 carried out by the sociology department of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV). The results of the survey were presented at a press conference on Tuesday, January 26.

Slovak Interior Minister to face no-confidence motion on Friday

An extraordinary parliamentary session with a motion of no-confidence in Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák as the only item on the agenda will begin on Friday, January 29, at 14:00, parliamentary Vice-chairman Miroslav Číž announced on January 26, following a meeting of MPs.

State secretary faces charges of evasion of tax and insurance levies

The Trenčín Regional Prosecutor's office has launched a legal action against five people for evasion of tax and insurance levies, the TASR newswire was told by the prosecutor's office spokesman Marián Šipavý.

Bratislava-Košice highway should be finished ‘by late 2012’

Instead of 2010, the date promised by Prime Minister Robert Fico when he came into office in June 2006, Slovakia’s first highway connecting Bratislava and Košice will be finished by late 2012. Economy Minister Ľubomír Jahnátek told South Korean Ambassador Seok-soong Seo about the revised plans.

Most-Hid MP says oil pipeline across Žitný Ostrov is one step closer

According to independent MP Zsolt Simon, vice-chairman of non-parliamentary Most-Híd party, the Slovak government is now one step closer to finalising the plan to build a crude oil pipeline across the Žitný Ostrov area that encompasses the water reservoirs for south-western Slovakia, the TASR newswire wrote.

Unwitting Dublin passenger asks Interior Minister not to publish compensation details

Štefan Gonda, the man from Poprad who unwittingly flew to Dublin with explosive planted in his luggage by police, wants Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák not to publish the amount he is to receive as a compensation for the inconvenience he experienced, the TASR newswire reported.

Slovakia’s Transport Ministry proposes to re-join divided railway system

Several year ago passenger railways, cargo railways and Slovakia’s administrator of railways were divided into three separate companies. Now it is proposed that they should be re-connected in a holding company, sme.sk wrote on its website on January 26.

Fair-Play Alliance wins lawsuit against Slovakia’s prosecutor’s office

Slovakia’s General Prosecutor’s Office will have to provide access to its decision that halted criminal prosecution in the case of alleged false donors to the centre-right Slovak Democratic and Christian Union party (SDKÚ) to the election watchdog Fair-Play Alliance, the SITA newswire reported. Slovakia’s Supreme Court recently released its decision.

Three Guantánamo detainees arrive in Slovakia

Three detainees from the US facility in Guantánamo Bay Cuba arrived in Slovakia early Monday morning, January 25, the spokesman for the Police Corps Presidium, Martin Korch, told the TASR newswire later in the day.

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