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Ministry heralds cheaper drugs
PRICES for medicines in Slovakia are to become the second lowest within the entire European Union, generic equivalents can be prescribed by doctors for brand-name drugs, and pharmacies can develop customer loyalty programmes: these are among the most significant measures included in laws proposed by Health Minister Ivan Uhliarik that were approved by Slovakia’s parliament on September 13.
Quote of the week
“Mr Fico, you know that I know that you know that it’s your voice.”
Brožúra
NO NEED to worry, Richard Sulík is planning to translate his pamphlet (brožúra) ‘Bailout Mechanism – A Road to Socialism’ into English. Anyone interested in the speaker of parliament’s opinion on the union’s solution to the continent’s debt crisis can therefore read his tract without worrying that anything is being lost in translation. Perhaps it won’t tell the reader much new, but there are at least three ways in which the work is likely to make history.
Where the last footprints of Štefánik lead (video included)
Ivanka pri Dunaji doesn’t seem like a tourist site at first glance. But there is one place that might interest enthusiasts of post-World-War-I Czechoslovak history – a memorial to Milan Rastislav Štefánik, one of the founders of the first common state of Czechs and Slovaks, at the place where his plane crashed near Bratislava airport in May 1919.
Inflation accelerates to 4.1 percent
YEAR-ON-YEAR inflation in consumer prices measured by the European Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) reached 4.1 percent in August, compared to 3.8 percent in July. The average annual inflation rate grew by 0.2 percentage points month-on-month to 2.9 percent in August, the SITA newswire reported.
Slovak record for rope-twisting
EMPLOYEES of the Homeland Museum in Trebišov, a town in eastern Slovakia, organised a new record-setting attempt as part of the August 12-13 celebration of the Days of Trebišov.
State Citizenship Act challenged
THE MOST-HÍD party has collected enough MPs' signatures to lodge an official complaint with the Constitutional Court about changes to the State Citizenship Act made by the previous government of Robert Fico (Smer), the TASR newswire reported on September 9.
New Election Code proposed
THE INTERIOR Ministry has introduced a draft Election Code to unify various measures applying to the five existing types of election. But the overall change will be minor, the Sme daily reported.
Scholarships for IT students
THE CARPATHIAN Foundation launched a programme in mid September called IT Talent that will support ambitious and gifted university students. The scholarship programme will support three students from eastern Slovakia who are studying information technologies or related fields. Each student will receive a stipend of €1,000 as well as a notebook computer with internet access for one year.
Mayors seek changes in election rules
THE POWER of political parties in Slovakia reaches too far, according to several local and regional politicians. Recently, mayors of three municipalities in central Slovakia initiated a petition drive that would give more voice to ‘regional personalities’ as independent candidates in parliamentary elections at the expense of the power of political parties in slating candidates. But not all political experts share the mayors’ enthusiasm for the idea.
Slovak National Theatre's new season
AFTER a dampened season last year, the Slovak National Theatre (SND) promises to offer more than a dozen premieres in its opera, ballet and drama productions, though some of these premieres have been shifted to this season from before the summer break. Altogether 74 productions, including 19 premieres, will make up the repertory offered by the “first Slovak stage” as the SND terms itself.
President Obama and Prime Minister Radičová will meet
Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radičová has received a letter from US President Barack Obama inviting her to attend an event called the Open Government Partnership due in New York on September 20, Government Office's press department told TASR newswire.
Law change could prompt more bankruptcies by simplifying process
A major amendment to the law on bankruptcy elaborated by Justice Minister Lucia Žitňanská and approved by MPs will become effective as of next year and might increase the number of bankruptcies, the Sme daily reported on Friday, September 16. According to the amended law, creditors will be able to propose the bankruptcy of their debtors much earlier than they are able to now.
Thousands bid farewell to hockey legend Demitra
Several thousand people turned out in the first hour of a public farewell ceremony in Trenčín on Thursday, September 15, to farewell Slovak ice hockey legend Pavol Demitra, who died in a plane crash in Russia on September 7, the TASR newswire reported.
Five millionth passenger sails through Gabčíkovo locks
On Wednesday, September 14, a cruise-ship passenger became the five-millionth person to pass through the locks of the dam at the Gabčíkovo hydroelectric power plant, which is administered by the Slovak Water Management Company (SVP).
Harabin’s salary cut will not be checked
It is likely that nobody will check whether Supreme Court president Štefan Harabin really is being paid 70 percent less than his normal salary, in compliance with a disciplinary punishment imposed on him in July. The public will have no way to discover the truth, the Sme daily wrote on Friday, September 16.
Coming here to live wasn’t a shock, says an Englishman (video included)
Andrew Billingham came to Prešov the first time in 1983. His first memory of Slovakia and Slovaks is of hospitality. Years later, he and his wife returned to Slovakia to live here, and found their own weekend cottage in the east of the country from which to enjoy the countryside and the nature of the region.
Slovakia has public holiday today
The people of Slovakia will mark the holiday of the Virgin Mary of Seven Sorrows, a patron saint of Slovakia on Thursday, September 15, the SITA newswire wrote.
Parliament restricts access to information about nuclear energy
Parliament passed the so-called Atomic Act on Wednesday, September 14, restricting access to sensitive documents containing information about nuclear energy. The bill concerns information that could adversely affect international affairs or national security, the TASR newswire wrote.
NBS: Prediction for Slovakia similar to ECB's estimates - slower economy
The medium-term forecast of the Slovak central bank (NBS) will be similar to the recently-published prognosis of the European Central Bank (ECB), especially in terms of the deceleration of economic growth, reads a document presented to a cabinet session on Wednesday, September 14, by NBS governor Jozef Makúch.
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