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New industrial orders in Slovakia surged 35.9 percent in April
The volume of new industrial orders in Slovakia continued increasing in April according to data from Slovakia’s Statistics Office which showed new industrial orders in April increasing by 35.9 percent to €2.782 billion, the SITA newswire reported. The April growth rate was 0.4 percentage points faster from March. After taking seasonal influences into account, the volume of new industrial orders in April remained unchanged from March.
Slovak president says he will not appoint a minority government
President Ivan Gašparovič announced on Monday, June 14, that according to the Constitution, he could appoint a minority government. “But it will definitively not happen,” said the head of state, as quoted by the SITA newswire.
World Cup 2010 – Slovak team is ready for its premiere today
Slovak football players are fighting their first match ever at the World Cup on Tuesday afternoon, June 15, against New Zealand. In the match of the F-Group in Rustenburg Slovakia will field almost the same line-up as in its rehearsal match against Costa Rica, the TASR newswire wrote.
Last polls missed the voters’ sentiment
THE DIFFERENCE between Smer’s final vote-count in the general election and the exit polls on election day suggests a need for polling organisations to rethink their polling procedures and especially their exit-polling methods, said Kevin Deegan-Krause, a political scientist from Wayne State University in the US, who has been following political developments in Slovakia for a long time. Deegan-Krause, who closely observed Slovakia’s elections from across the Atlantic, listed HZDS dropping below the 5-percent parliament threshold as one of the most remarkable moments of the election.
Slovakia’s President to hold successive talks with leaders of six parties entering parliament
President Ivan Gašparovič on Monday, June 14, launched a series of talks with representatives of the six political parties – starting with the top vote-getter and progressing downwards – that made it into parliament after Slovakia’s general election, the TASR newswire was told. Incumbent Prime Minister and Smer party chairman Robert Fico (62 seats) was the first to hold talks with Gašparovič in the Presidential Palace earlier in the day. By virtue of being chairman of Smer, which received the largest share of votes, Fico was tasked with forming a coalition. The deadline for Fico has been set for Wednesday, June 23. Following the election results, it will be the turn of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) with 28 MPs. However, it is not the party’s election leader, Iveta Radičová, but rather SDKÚ chairman Mikuláš Dzurinda who will attend the meeting with the President, Gašparovič's spokesman Marek Trubač told TASR.
Slovakia’s Finance Ministry says public debt reaches nearly 36 percent of GDP for 2009
Slovakia's public debt reached €22.58 billion last year, which represents 35.7 percent of GDP, up 8.1 percentage points on the year, according to a report published by the Finance Ministry, the TASR newswire reported. The ministry said it is the global economic recession that is responsible for the figures. The public debt is 21.5 percent higher while the economy as measured by GDP dropped by 4.7 percent.
Justice Minister Petríková gets okay for temporary assignment to Slovakia’s Supreme Court
The executive body of the Supreme Court on Monday, June 14, gave the green light to the temporary assignment of current Justice Minister Viera Petríková and ministry State Secretary Daniel Hudák to the Supreme Court, Sylvia Machalová of the Office of the Supreme Court chairman told the TASR newswire. “The judges on the council have no objections to the temporary assignment of judges Viera Petríková and Daniel Hudák to hold posts as judges with the Slovak Supreme Court,” said Machalová.
Figeľ of KDH expects centre-right coalition to issue joint stance by Friday
Parties of a likely future coalition government in Slovakia – the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ), Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) and Most-Híd – should be able to formally define their joint stance and announce it to President Ivan Gašparovič by the end of this week, Ján Figeľ the chairman of KDH told the TASR newswire on Monday, June 14. Figeľ, who earlier in the day was tasked by KDH’s presidency with leading coalition talks on behalf of the party, reiterated that his party sticks to its pledge not to discuss forming a coalition with the Smer party. Incumbent Prime Minister and Smer leader Robert Fico was tasked by Gašparovič with launching official talks concerning a future coalition. Figeľ denies having received a formal offer by Smer to discuss a possible coalition, but confirmed that unofficial proposals have been made.
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Vote 2010: Number of women MPs in Slovak parliament to fall after the election
According to the final results of Slovakia’s June 12 general election, the number of women in the country’s next 150-seat parliament will fall from the current 26 to 23, the TASR newswire wrote. Ten women among the new MPs will come from the Smer party, which gained the highest level of voter support (35 percent), and they will outnumber six women who are members of the runner-up Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ). Four women MPs will represent the new parliamentary party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS).
Vote 2010: SDĽ representative refuses to sign official protocol on election
The representative of the Party of the Democratic Left (SDĽ) on the Central Electoral Commission (ÚVK), Peter Weiss, refused to sign the official protocol on the results of the general election on Saturday, June 12, the TASR newswire was told. Weiss complained that the Statistics Office did not provide him with the election results from individual electoral commissions. SDĽ has not been able to compare the results with the parallel counting carried out by SDĽ, he said.
SDKÚ will start discussions with other parties about a future government on June 15
The election leader of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ), Iveta Radičová, said that she will begin contacting representatives of other parties that will have MPs in the next parliament about forming the new ruling coalition only on Tuesday, June 15, according to a report by the SITA newswire. The other parties are Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), the Christian Democratic Movememnt (KDH), and Most-Híd.
Slovakia’s first World Cup match will unfold on Tuesday, June 15
The opening match of the 19th World Cup held South Africa ended as a tie 1:1 between the host country and Mexico and was watched, among millions of others, by Slovakia’s coach and other football officials from the country.
Vote 2010: Slovak President Gašparovič asks Robert Fico to form a new government
Slovak President Ivan Gašparovič asked the current Prime Minister Robert Fico and leader of Smer, the party with the best election results, to try to form a new government. Fico has been given until Wednesday, June 23, for negotiations to do so, the SITA newswire wrote.
Quote of the week
"Now you'll all be jerking off about it, I wish you a pleasant sexual experience."
Slovakia offers attractive conditions to Italian investors
THE ECONOMIC crisis has forced every company to be more efficient and more open to markets beyond just their local ones. In the case of Italian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the crisis has increased their need to internationalise their own activities, says Ignacio Jaquotot, who is the chief executive officer and chairman of the management board of VÚB bank, as well as the president of the Italian-Slovak Chamber of Commerce (CCIS). With regards to the banking sector, Jaquotot sees banks ‘going back to their roots’ as the best response to the crisis.
Some companies with Italian capital in Slovakia
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Slovakia says goodbye to the Fico-Slota-Mečiar ruling style
SLOVAK National Party (SNS) chief Ján Slota said that the exit-poll results from the parliamentary elections made him want to cry. The leader of a party which over the past four years has been the subject of repeated suspicions of corruption and cronyism added that the country would cry bloody tears, and held out the prospect of Hungarian dominance and political autonomy for Hungarians in Slovakia. The SNS only narrowly cleared the 5-percent threshold necessary to make it into parliament.
Zlepenec
JUST before the general election, Prime Minister Robert Fico introduced a new term into the Slovak political vocabulary – zlepenec. The word, which is usually used to describe either a glued-together bunch of hair or a geological conglomerate, was supposed to represent the wild mix in the right-wing bloc of the liberal SaS, conservative KDH, liberal-conservative SDKÚ, and Slovak-Hungarian Most-Híd. And in an unexpected turn of events, the zlepenec will now rule the country. What were the key factors of the election that brought it to power?
Activist seeks audit of PM’s reserve fund
CIVIL activist and deputy chairman of the Civic Conservative Party (OKS) Ondrej Dostál filed a motion with Slovakia’s Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) and the General Prosecutor’s Office on June 7 requesting an investigation into the lawfulness of the use of funds from the reserve fund of the prime minister, the SITA newswire reported.
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