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Employing foreigners in Slovakia
Employing foreigners in Slovakia has some pitfalls as well as positive aspects for employers. Foreign nationals living in Slovakia, or those seeking to come here for work, are highly motivated to find and keep a job or to improve their qualifications. Foreign nationals can bring new ideas to workplaces and enrich their colleagues by their knowledge of different cultural and work experiences. When hiring a foreigner, an employer also acquires an employee who has mastered several languages, which can help in communication with customers in other parts of the world. But if the person comes from a country that is not a member state of the European Union there are additional administrative procedures that consume more time on the side of the employer as well as the employee.
US representatives visit Slovakia
THE FISCAL problems affecting Europe and Slovakia were among the topics discussed by President Ivan Gašparovič and a group of members from the US Congress led by Representative Dan Burton from Indiana who spent two days in Slovakia, the TASR newswire reported.
Medical student experiences life in Africa
TOMÁŠ Sýkora, a sixth-year medical student from Bratislava, has deep feelings of responsibility after spending three months helping children in Ethiopia. Though five months have passed since Sýkora returned from Africa, he instantly recalls Zanis, a little girl suffering from malnutrition who carried a plastic bottle tied into a scarf on her back to imitate carrying a baby. Sýkora, who participated in a programme battling malnutrition sponsored by St Elizabeth University of Health and Social Sciences, says the children of Ethiopia continue to inspire him and remind him of the privileges that physicians and patients have here in Slovakia.
One in five Slovaks paid a bribe in past year, TIS survey finds
Over the past year, one in five Slovaks paid a bribe, but only in ten percent of these cases was a bribe requested, according to the results of a survey conducted by Transparency International Slovensko (TIS) in cooperation with the Focus polling agency this January. The survey found that bribery is most widespread in health care, the courts, the prosecution service, at ministries and at tax offices. On the other hand, corruption in the education sector has declined, the survey found.
Matovič claims to have passed lie-detector test
Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO) party leader Igor Matovič has declared that he underwent a polygraph – i.e. lie-detector – test on Friday, February 17, in London. He claimed that he had passed the test successfully.
EU: Slovakia and Estonia only eurozone economies expected to grow in 2012
Slovakia and Estonia will probably be the only economies among the 17 members of the eurozone to record growth in 2012, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro Olli Rehn stated on Thursday, February 23.
ZMOS: Some towns and villages don't have enough money for election
Some villages and towns are reporting a lack of money to pay the wages of electoral officers, representatives of the Association of Towns and Villages (ZMOS) said on Thursday, February 23.
AT Partners – now a member of Geneva Group International
AT Partners, a renowned Slovak firm, has become the exclusive representative in Slovakia for Geneva Group International, the sixth largest consulting company of its kind in the world.
Professionals in Taxes, Auditing & Accounting
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Threatened publication of more 'Gorillas' on internet was a ‘joke’
An anonymous internet-broadcast message threatened on Wednesday to release audio and video recordings linked to the so-called Gorilla file that would "dish the dirt" on Slovak politics on Thursday evening, the Aktualne.sk website reported. The author said that they would go ahead with the move if all politicians mentioned in the 'Gorilla' file failed to step down from their respective election slates by the given time, the TASR newswire wrote. The information was published on vyzva.tumblr.com, where the mooted recordings were supposed to appear. The website was created on tumblr.com, the blogging site on which the 'Gorilla' and 'Sasanka' documents were published. The announcement also stated that the websites of all political parties would be "paralysed" on Thursday.
Petrol prices rise across EU, including Slovakia
The price of motor fuel prices in the European Union rose significantly last week. Tomáš Novotný from the website Natankuj.sk said that petrol prices within the EU rose by over two cents per litre on average and diesel price by around 1.5 cents per litre, the SITA newswire reported. Diesel prices hit a one-year high in 15 EU countries, while petrol prices hit a one-year high in 18 countries.
Slovak Telekom files motion over licence extension, ministry dissatisfied with regulator’s step
Slovak Telekom has filed a second motion with the Supreme Court related to last year's extension of mobile licences. In the latest lawsuit, the company challenged the procedure used by the regulator, the Telecommunications Office (TÚ), as well as the fee of €48 million which it imposed for a 10-year extension of ST’s operating licence.
Former OĽaNO candidates call on Matovič to take lie-detector test
Civic Conservative Party (OKS) chairman and former candidate on the Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO) slate Peter Zajac called at a press conference on Wednesday, February 22, for OľaNO leader Igor Matovič to undergo a polygraph, or lie-detector, test and answer seven questions that have been drafted by various former OĽaNO candidates. Zajac left the party slate earlier this month after Matovič insisted that he and some other candidates submit to lie-detector tests to check if they had ever been involved in corruption.
Radičová: Samsung request for state aid does not meet criteria
A request by Samsung Electronics Slovakia for investment assistance of €28 million does not comply with the criteria for such aid, Prime Minister Iveta Radičová said after a government session on Wednesday, February 22.
ÚVK: 53 candidates have left party slates
Former judge and current Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) MP Jana Dubovcová, who was recently elected as the new national ombudswoman by parliament, has withdrawn her candidacy for the March 10 general election. The Central Electoral Committee (ÚVK) was informed that Dubovcová was withdrawing from the slate because the post of ombudsman requires the occupant to be apolitical.
Extraordinary parliamentary session to deal with EU funds, procurements
Speaker of Parliament Pavol Hrušovský on Wednesday, February 22, called an extraordinary parliamentary session to be held on February 29. At the session, MPs are set to deal with legislation concerning military districts as well as EU funds and public procurement, both of which were submitted via fast-tracked legislative proceedings.
Bank robber commits suicide after chase with police
An armed man who on Wednesday, February 22, robbed a branch of Tatra Banka on Tupolevova Street in the Bratislava borough of Petržalka later shot and killed himself when police officers began chasing him, Bratislava Police spokesperson Petra Hrašková said later in the day, the TASR newswire reported.
Krúžky
IT’S NOT often that shapes get to shape politics. But krúžky (little circles) made it, and they are starting to play a decisive role in Slovak elections. Preferential voting, done by circling up to four candidates on the ballot of your chosen party, had long been just an empty gesture, with little relevance to the final results and little political weight. Before the 2006 elections, however, the rules changed – before then, any candidate needed to get little circles from one tenth of his or her party’s voters to move up the list. Under the new legislation, all a candidate needed was three percent. That meant popular candidates got a real chance to get parliamentary seats at the expense of those who initially received better spots.
Referendum on single official language will not be held on election day
A referendum on whether the Slovak language should be the only official language in Slovakia will not take place simultaneously with parliamentary elections on March 10, despite a push for such a vote by the opposition Slovak National Party (SNS).
Mayor urges state to intervene to keep Poprad in KHL
“I, as a lawyer was involved in the project of bringing the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) to Poprad [Prešov Region], I am now urging the state to help keep the HC Lev Poprad ice hockey team in this league,” Slovak National Party (SNS) vice-chairman and mayor of Poprad Andrej Danko told a press conference on Tuesday, February 21.
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