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Slota: Smer violated agreement with SNS on local elections
Smer has nominated a candidate for the mayoralty of Žilina, in northern Slovakia, despite an agreement with the Slovak National Party (SNS) that it would support its candidate, SNS chairman Ján Slota told the TASR newswire on Tuesday, September 28.
Head of Slovakia’s national lottery resigns
The director general of Tipos, Slovakia’s state-run lottery company, Stanislav Žiačik, resigned on September 28, citing personal reasons, the SITA newswire wrote. Žiačik resigned before the Tipos Supervisory Board was set to deliver its report based on an investigation of contracts which Tipos had awarded to the PR agency VYV, which had been co-owned by Žiačik until 2001. Finance Minister Ivan Mikloš accepted Žiačik's resignation, his spokesman Martin Jaroš told SITA.
Economy Minister Miškov says changing board of enterprise agency won’t be easy
The managing board of the National Agency for Development of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (NADSME) will not have its next session until October 4 and carrying out the wish of Prime Minister Iveta Radičová to dismiss all persons on the management board will not be easy, said Economy Minister Juraj Miškov (SaS) to the TASR newswire on September 27. The agency is an interest group made up of corporate bodies along with the Economy Ministry, the Association of Slovak Entrepreneurs (ZPS) and the Slovak Tradesmen Association (SZZ). Radičová gave Miškov only seven days to dismiss the entire NADSME managing board last Friday (September 24). However, according to the NADSME statutes, it takes at least seven days to convene the managing board.
Foreign Affairs Minister Dzurinda tells Budapest that Slovakia wants new bridges
Slovakia and Hungary want to build new bridges, both physically and metaphorically, said Foreign Affairs Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda after meeting his Hungarian counterpart in Budapest on September 27, the TASR newswire wrote. Dzurinda visited Hungary for the first time since he became chief of Slovak diplomacy following the June 12 election. Both officials agreed to infuse new blood into the 12 Slovak-Hungarian commissions designed to tackle the most important issues in the sometimes troubled relations between the two countries.
Slovakia will pay €81 million for cancelled PPP highway works
Mutual settlement of issues in connection with the terminated concessionaire agreement for the first public-private project (PPP) package for construction of sections of the D1 highway between Slovenské Diaľnice and the Transport Ministry will require €81 million, the SITA newswire wrote.
SNS re-elects Slota as chair
JÁN Slota will continue ruling the Slovak National Party (SNS) for another four years. He was re-elected to the post with 180 votes, about two-thirds of the delegates to the party’s congress, leaving his three challengers far behind and stirring debates about how internally democratic SNS is and what future awaits it with Slota as its leader. The main criticism of SNS current situation comes from within the party: Anna Belousovová, who failed to maintain her post as deputy chair, said the congress was manipulated and that SNS is on its way to political oblivion under Slota.
PM Radičová visits Slovak army contingent at Šajkovac base in Kosovo
Prime Minister Iveta Radičová has a one-day working visit to Kosovo to meet the Slovak KFOR-SLOVCON contingent and its commander Major General Erhard Buhler, the Government Office informed the TASR newswire on September 27. At the military base, Radičová will lay a wreath at the monument for the 42 victims of the January 19, 2006 aircraft disaster that occurred in northern Hungary. The plane was carrying Slovak Armed Forces' peacekeepers from this mission back to Slovakia. The Slovak prime minister will also pay homage to those who died in the line of duty and present medals to Slovak soldiers serving in the KFOR mission for securing peace in the area.
New poll shows Smer remains as leading political party
The most recent poll by the Focus agency revealed that Robert Fico's Smer party would have drawn 39.7 percent support if a parliamentary election had been held in September, the TASR newswire reported.
Future Environment Minister Nagy will seek € 15 million from Interblue Group
The Agriculture, Environment and Regional Development Ministry’s State Secretary – and soon-to-be Environment Minister – József Nagy (Most-Híd party) on Monday, September 27, announced that he will do his utmost to retrieve €15 million from Slovakia's sale of emission quotas to the Interblue Group, the TASR newswire reported. Nagy added that he considers the emissions sales contract as cancelled and that Interblue Group has no right to buy any more quotas. The €15 million in question is an addendum to the contract providing this additional payment if Slovakia’s used its proceeds from the original sale for 'green' projects.
British Justice Minister Clarke visits Slovakia
British Justice Minister Kenneth Clarke is visiting three EU countries this week and will be in the Slovak capital Bratislava on September 27 and 28, the TASR newswire reported.
This week in Slovakia
Content of programme: Radičová backs down in Hayek affair; Politicians link pay to performance; Gangster gets life behind bars; New hockey arena on schedule
Corgoň Liga round 10 results
Six matches of the Slovak premier football league 'Corgoň Liga' Round 10 were played over the weekend of September 25-26, the TASR newswire wrote. The results were as follows:
Ice hockey Extraliga 8th round results
Slovakia's ice hockey premier league "Extraliga" continued on Sunday, September 26, with its 8th round in which all away teams scored each three goals, the TASR newswire wrote.The results were as follows:
PM Radičová says Supreme Audit Office will review Hayek Consulting contracts
The four coalition parties agreed that there are certain questions regarding contracts awarded to Hayek Consulting company, which was co-owned by Economy Ministry State Secretary Martin Chren (SaS) and Transport Ministry State Secretary Ivan Švejna (Most-Híd) but they do not agree on what action should be taken at this time, Prime Minister Iveta Radičová and SaS chairman Richard Sulík said at a press conference on Friday, September 24, the SITA newswire reported. The two therefore agreed that via parliament they will ask Slovakia’s Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) to carry out an inspection into the effectiveness of the money spent by state institutions in contracts with Hayek Consulting.
Ministry to assess fines only as a last resort for violations of State Language Act
An amendment to the widely-criticised State Language Act that would considerably soften restrictions on the use of ethnic minority languages under the law passed by the former government of Robert Fico was approved by the new government on September 24, the TASR newswire reported. If passed by parliament, the new measures effective as of January will impose a fine only for the failure to release official information concerning the health and safety of Slovak citizens in the state language. The Culture and Tourism Ministry will move to impose the €50-€2,500 fines only as last resort. Currently, fines of between €100-5,000 are stipulated by law, TASR newswire wrote.
Slota is re-elected SNS chairman; Andrej Danko replaces Belousovová
The 17th congress of the Slovak National Party (SNS) held in Ružomberok on September 25 re-elected its long-standing leader, Ján Slota, to the post of party chairman, the TASR newswire reported. Slota received 180 out of 271 votes in the balloting, which was held in public.
Supreme Court files libel complaint against head of Fair-Play Alliance
Slovakia’s Supreme Court on September 24 filed a criminal complaint for libel against the Fair-Play Alliance’s director, Zuzana Wienk, the court’s press department told the TASR newswire. The court claims that Wienk falsely accused Supreme Court Chairman Štefan Harabin and former vice-chair Daniela Švecová of unlawfully changing the make-up of senates and interfering in the electronic assigning of cases to judges.
Making art in Špania Dolina
ŠPANIA Dolina 2010, an international symposium for painters and sculptors dedicated to Josef Langer, who created most of his paintings in this Slovak village, welcomed 15 artists from seven countries for its eighth annual edition.
A new record – 23,420 kisses in 12 hours
ON SEPTEMBER 14, Slovakia made an attempt to set a new record in collecting “kisses” – marks of lipstick-tainted lips smooched onto small papers. The attempt to break the record began at 7:00 simultaneously in 50 cities and towns with the goal not only of breaking the previous Slovak record of 3,014 kisses set in 2004 but also of establishing a new world record. Because the old Slovak record had been accomplished over several days, this attempt was limited to a single day so that a legitimate challenge could be made to the current one-day world record set in Istanbul – where 2,302 kisses were collected.
Slovak documentary to compete for an Oscar
SLOVAKIA will send the documentary film Hranica (The Border) about a village divided between two countries to compete for a prestigious US Academy Award. The Slovak Film and TV Academy (SFTA) made the decision after a vote, the ČTK newswire was told by Zuzana Mistríková, its vice-chair.
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