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Parliamentary committee lists 19 candidates for RTVS top job
The parliamentary committee for culture and media on Tuesday, February 1, put 19 candidates for the post of general director of the newly merged public-broadcaster Radio and Television Slovakia (RTVS) on an official list, including three candidates whose applications were delivered after the official deadline. One candidate, Štefan Papeš, was excluded for not meeting the stated requirements, the TASR newswire wrote.
Health Ministry to amend law to address substances sold in ‘crazy shops’
The Slovak Health Ministry will submit for interdepartmental review an amendment to legislation governing narcotics and psychotropic substances that are currently being sold as souvenirs in so-called crazy shops, Health Minister Ivan Uhliarik (Christian Democratic Movement (KDH)) told the TASR newswire on Tuesday, February 1.
State budget deficit was €17.74 million in January
The state budget recorded a €17.74 million deficit during January 2011, the Finance Ministry announced on Tuesday, February 1.
MPs break president’s veto and pass Judges Act
As expected, MPs overrode the veto of President Ivan Gašparovič to pass an amendment to the Judges and Judicial Assistants Act for the second time on Tuesday, February 1.
Trade Unions stage first rally against Labour Code amendments
Trade unions organised the first in a series of protest rallies against proposed amendments to the Labour Code on Tuesday, February 1. It took place outside the Yazaki plant in Michalovce (Košice Region), the TASR newswire reported.
Plans to make English compulsory in Slovak schools confirmed
The compulsory study of English for schoolchildren will remain in the School Act amendment, MPs decided on Tuesday, February 1, when they rejected an objection raised by President Ivan Gašparovič against the introduction of obligatory English tuition.
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Slovak police will re-examine controversy at Comenius University
The police are going to re-examine a case of suspicious admission of a group of part-time students who worked as tax advisors to Comenius University’s Faculty of Law, the SITA newswire reported.
First parliamentary session of 2011 will test coalition's cohesion
The first parliamentary session of 2011 that begins on the afternoon of February 1 will test the governing coalition's cohesion, the SITA newswire wrote. Early in the agenda, the MPs will decide on several bills vetoed by the president: the law on judges, the revision to the State Language Act, the law on funding of elementary schools, high schools and educational facilities, and the revision to the law on health insurance companies.
Slota says Orban's joke about Slovak children was primitive
The chairman of the Slovak National Party (SNS), Ján Slota, said that the statement made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during his official visit to Slovakia on January 28 that "reports about him eating innocent Slovak children for breakfast are not true", is a primitive attempt at a joke. "He tried to be funny on Slovak soil. Imagine what a scandal it would be if a representative of Germany said something similar in Israel? SNS surely doesn't consider this to be funny ... if for nothing other than in view of the historical parallels, at least," Slota told the TASR newswire.
SaS deputies unveil a draft to curb mayors' salaries
Three MPs of the Freedom and Solidarity party (SaS), Szilard Somogyi, Ľuboš Majer, and Kamil Krnáč, believe that their colleagues in the Slovak parliament will support their blueprint governing the legal position and remuneration of mayors of villages and towns in the second reading even though the government is working on its own proposal on the issue.
SNS’s Belousovová says she will not attend meeting that may lead to her expulsion
The former Slovak National Party (SNS) first vice-chair, Anna Belousovová, who is currently only a rank-and-file party member and MP, said on January 31 that she will not attend the party’s presidium session on February 2 that is to be held to take disciplinary action against her, the TASR newswire reported.
PM Radičová says Slovakia’s pension age will not be raised before 2014
Increasing the pension age should not take place sooner than 2014, according to Prime Minister Iveta Radičová, saying it will be 2014 when the current initiative to increase the pensionable age for women to age 62, from between ages 53 and 57, is expected to be implemented, the TASR newswire reported. "I have repeatedly said that Slovakia is not finished yet when it comes to the latest shifts. It should be over only in 2014. Any other notion is currently out of the question ... it would be senseless and unrealistic," Radičová said on January 31, as quoted by TASR. The Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, Jozef Mihál, based on an analysis prepared by his ministry, recently said that increasing the pension age will be inevitable – and it will go beyond the age of 62.
Slovak woman looking for her son in Egypt takes sanctuary in the Czech embassy
Katarína Azab, a Slovak woman who has been searching for her kidnapped son in Egypt for two years, has already spent two days at the Czech Embassy in Cairo, the TASR newswire reported on January 31. Like many others she has been left incommunicado in a city currently in the midst of public unrest and Czech embassy employees are recommending that she not leave the embassy. The internet has not been operating for a fourth day and sending a text message via mobile phone messages is not possible, TASR wrote. Azab has been in Egypt looking for her young son Adam who she says was kidnapped by his Egyptian father. She has turned to a number of international and domestic institutions for help and the case has received wide media coverage.
Labour Ministry submits first draft of Labour Code changes
On January 31 Slovakia’s Labour Ministry submitted the first draft of its proposals for changes in the country’s Labour Code to a session of a tripartite working group consisting of representatives of employees, employers and the government, the TASR newswire reported.
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