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Ex-speakers commemorate 20 years of free parliament
Six former speakers of the Slovak Parliament commemorated their terms leading the Slovak National Council by watching historical video recordings screened by current Speaker Richard Sulík to mark the 20th anniversary of free elections to the Slovak parliament.
One dead after motorway accident
One person died and several were hospitalised after more than 20 cars were involved in a pile-up on the D1 motorway shortly before 15:00 on Tuesday, December 7.
Bugár: Čentéš remains coalition’s candidate for general prosecutor
Jozef Čentéš will remain the ruling coalition's candidate for the post of general prosecutor, said Béla Bugár, chairman of the coalition party Most-Híd, following an inconclusive secret ballot for the position on Tuesday, December 7, the SITA newswire reported.
NBS: Economy will grow by 4.2 percent this year
The Slovak central bank (NBS) said on Tuesday, December 7, that it has slightly reduced its expectations concerning economic growth in 2010, reducing the figure from the 4.3 percent expected in September to 4.2 percent. The adjustment in the figure was caused by a higher level of imports than expected in the third quarter of 2010.
Slovakia to increase troops numbers in Afghanistan and Bosnia
The mandate for the number of Slovak soldiers serving in the ISAF operation in Afghanistan is to be increased from the current 314 to 348, according to a proposal drafted by the Defence and Foreign Ministries and approved by parliament on Tuesday, December 7.
Spy boss fined for late submission of property disclosure
The director of Slovakia's SIS intelligence service, Karol Mitrík, was fined by parliament's conflict of interest committee on Tuesday, December 7, the TASR newswire reported.
Parliamentary committee launches investigation of Mikloš
Parliament's conflict of interest committee stopped the investigation of four MPs on Tuesday, December 7, and launched investigations affecting Finance Minister Ivan Mikloš (SDKÚ) and Všeobecná Zdravotná Poisťovňa board of directors member Martin Barto, the TASR newswire reported, citing committee chair Renáta Zmajkovičová (Smer).
Clubs fight for Hamšík
MAREK Hamšík, the 23-year-old Slovak football star currently playing as a midfielder for the Italian club Napoli, might soon change colours and move north. The media reported on December 7 that Italy’s famed FC Juventus is again interested in his services.
Slovakia has drawn over €82 million from fund for decommissioning of Bohunice nuke
As of late September 2010, Slovakia has drawn more than €82 million from the Bohunice International Decommissioning Support Fund (BIDSF) the Economy Ministry informed the SITA newswire. Slovakia has concluded twenty grant agreements relating to the shutdown of the two nuclear units in Jaslovské Bohunice to date.
Slovak diplomat to chair UN working group on children's rights
Slovak diplomat Drahoslav Štefánek has been unanimously elected as the chair of the United Nations’ Working Group for an Optional Protocol to the Convention onthe Rights of the Child, the SITA newswire reported.
Slovakia gets time extension to reply to EC's objections to e-toll contract
Slovakia has until the end of the year to send its response to the European Commission's reasoned opinion questioning the procedures for selection of the contractor for the country’s electronic toll collection system, the SITA newswire wrote.
Slovak parliament does not choose General Prosecutor as coalition seeks recorded vote
Slovakia’s parliament did not elect the country’s next general prosecutor on Tuesday, December 7 as MPs from the governing coalition parties did not hand over their ballots and thus neither of the two candidates received the majority necessary to be elected as general prosecutor, the SITA newswire reported.
Kids from children's homes light up Christmas tree at Presidential Palace
Using a symbolic Christmas lantern, Slovakia's First Lady Silvia Gašparovičová together with President Ivan Gašparovič and children from three children's homes lit up the Presidential Palace in Bratislava on Monday, December 6, to mark Saint Nicholas Day, the TASR newswire wrote. Pedestrians walking across one of Bratislava's busiest central squares will have a chance to spot the freshly lit-up Christmas tree in the Palace's courtyard. In line with the tradition, the presidential couple spent St. Nicholas Day in the company of kids from children's homes – this time with those from homes in Trnava, Nižná Kamenica (Košice region) and Istebné (Žilina region).
Head of Slovakia’s Labour Inspectorate accuses predecessor of wasting money
The new management of Slovakia’s National Labour Inspectorate (NIP) on Monday, December 6, accused the former management of wasting public finances, the TASR newswire wrote.
Labour minister defends “levy bonus
With Great Britain having introduced a variation of the so-called “levy bonus” critics in Slovakia who took pot shots at the concept, arguing that no country had ever introduced such a measure within its social system, Jozef Mihál, Slovakia’s Labour, Social Affairs and Family Minister told the TASR newswire on December 6 that the criticism is inappropriate. Mihál spoke to TASR after he took part in an EU Council on Employment and Social Affairs (EPSCCO) meeting where he met with Chris Greyling who is responsible for employment at the British Labour and Pensions Ministry.
Car owners to be held accountable for traffic misdemeanours says Slovakia’s interior minister
Accountability for traffic misdemeanours should affect not only drivers but also car owners, Interior Minister Daniel Lipšic said at a joint press conference with his Hungarian counterpart Sándor Pinter on Monday, December 6, the TASR newswire wrote. Lipšic said that legislation dealing with this issue should be dealt with next year. Hungary already has such a law in place and this has helped to reduce the number of fatal car accidents, Pinter said. "The number of misdemeanours coming under this law has fallen significantly. All in all, there has been a 40-percent reduction," said Pinter as quoted by TASR. "This means that we'll be able to use permanently placed radar devices to measure speed. Car owners will be held accountable until it's demonstrated that they weren't driving the car because, for example, the car had been stolen," said Lipšic.
Coalition will obstruct Tuesday’s vote on general prosecutor and seek to have recorded ballot
Representatives of the four coalition parties agreed on Monday, December 6, that they will obstruct the vote to select the new general prosecutor in the Slovak parliament on Tuesday by taking away their ballot papers. They will then seek to change legislation so that most votes in parliament that are currently conducted by secret ballot will be open in the future. "The people who voted for us have the right to know for whom they voted and for whom their MPs vote. In the case of all other laws in which billions of euros are in question or decisions about people are made, voting is open," said Richard Sulík, the chairman of the Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party at a press conference after the coalition meeting.
This week in Slovakia
Content of programme: Showdown over prosecutor vote; Supreme Court tosses hot potato case back to lower court; Christian Democrats wreck tax deal; State TV and radio to be merged
In Košice we see great potential for growth
At the beginning of October, the Slovak company IMMORENT launched a construction of networks for the IMMOPARK project in Košice. IMMORENT, the 100-percent daughter of Erste Bank, operates on the market as a specialist in financing real estate properties, development, and services connected with the construction of real estates, thus continues in developing its activities in the sphere of logistic- and industrial parks. Peter Malík, a representative of the IMMORENT company, tells us more about the situation on the market as well as about the project itself; a project which is crucial in the current industrial sector.
PM Radičová states governing coalition would change if she steps down as prime minister
It is unlikely that the governing coalition would continue with the same composition if she resigned said Prime Minister Iveta Radičová on TV Markíza's political discussion programme 'Na Telo' on Sunday, December 5, the TASR newswire reported. "It can't remain with the same composition. If the coalition can't come to an agreement on basic things which it has promised to the people ... it can't continue like this," she said, as quoted by the TASR newswire. According to Radičová, a new coalition would more likely consist of now-opposition Smer and some current parties of the coalition. At the same time she ruled out that the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) could be in the fold of this theoretical coalition. Radičová described the decision of at least four coalition MPs to not support joint coalition candidate for Prosecutor General, Jozef Čentéš, as incomprehensible.
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