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Agriculture Ministry plans to regulate the breeding of dogs
Agriculture Minister Ľubomír Jahnátek wants to ban the breeding of two dog breeds and create stricter rules for breeding 13 others. Slovakia will determine three risk categories of dogs, which only expert owners who fulfil several criteria, will be allowed to breed. Dailies Sme and Pravda wrote in their Tuesday, September 25, issues, that the ministry has prepared a draft amendment which proposes to divide risky breeds into three categories: dangerous dogs that have already injured someone unprovoked, “unwanted” dog breeds such as the Pit Bull Terrier, and dogs requiring a stricter regime of breeding.
Sales of paper producers in Slovakia rose
Overall sales of ten companies clustered in the Slovak Pulp and Paper Industry Association (ZCPP) went up 9 percent in year-on-year terms to €459.548 million as of the end of June.
Bratislava hosts young Singaporean businesspeople and students
Bratislava became on Monday, September 24, the first central European city to host a delegation of some 120 young entrepreneurs and people working in the sphere of culture from Singapore who have come to the country as part of a project called Spotlight Singapore, the TASR newswire learnt.
Food prices expected to rise in autumn or winter
Economic analysts estimate that people may notice a hike in food prices as early as this autumn or winter, Poštová Banka analyst Eva Sadovská reported on Monday, September 24.
Richter to propose 3.2-percent rise in minimum wage
The minimum wage is projected to go up by 3.2 percent - that is to €337.70 per month - as of next year, with Labour Minister Ján Richter saying on Monday, September 24, that he is certain the government will accept his proposal to this effect.
SMK and Most-Híd sign a document on Hungarian minority in Slovakia
The last census’ results which showed a significant drop in the number of members of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia have brought together its political representation, the Party of the Hungarian Community (SMK), Most-Híd, and the Roundtable of Hungarians in Slovakia to a joint declaration, which they signed in Bratislava on Monday, September 24.
Slovak authorities reject naming new bridge after Chuck Norris
Bratislava regional politicians refused to call a new cycling bridge spanning the Morava River and the border between Slovakia and Austria after American action film star Chuck Norris. Even though it received the support of 12,599 votes in a two-month online poll, the authorities finally picked up the name “Freedom Cycling-Bridge” in memory of people killed attempting to escape communist Eastern Europe, the Reuters.com reported on September 21.
Photographer Šymon Kliman becomes a European Citizen of 2012
Slovak photographer Šymon Kliman received the European Citizen of 2012 award from the Information Office of the European Parliament (EP) for his exhibition devoted to ethnic Slovak Roma, called “Beautiful People”, the SITA newswire reported on September 21.
NBS oks the increase in J&T’s interest in Poštová Banka
The National Bank of Slovakia (NBS), country’s central bank, has permitted the J&T financial group to increase its interest in Poštová Banka. The trade, thanks to which the financial group will acquire the 88.055 percent share in the bank will now have to be okayed by the Antimonopoly Office, the TASR newswire reported on September 20.
British court lets children return home
The active involvement of Slovak authorities in recent British court trials has benefitted a Slovak family living in Great Britain whose children were taken away by British officials. The latest verdict in the case of Viera Čonková and Miroslav Goroľ will allow them to return home together with their five children, the Sme daily reported on September 22.
Taxes in Slovakia
Value added tax (VAT)Basic VAT rate: 20 percentReduced VAT rate on books and medicines: 10 percent
State aid decisions postponed
NINE companies which had asked for state aid in the form of tax relief will have to wait for the money they are seeking. At a cabinet session on September 19, ministers postponed a final decision on giving out around €101 million to corporate claimants, saying that information is missing from the requests.
Tax incomes lag behind projection
THE STATE’S overall tax revenue in 2012 amounted to €4.918 billion up to the end of July, lagging behind the level projected in the state budget by 8.6 percent. The sum collected represented 53.3 percent of the annual projection, the SITA newswire reported, citing data from the Finance Directorate.
Still no new NKÚ head
EARLIER this year Prime Minister Robert Fico promised that his ruling Smer party would support the election of an opposition candidate to the top post at the Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ), the authority that oversees how state bodies spend public money. Yet Kamil Krnáč, a former MP for the opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party, failed to get elected to the NKÚ top job in a secret ballot on September 18, when he received only 63 votes out of the 148 deputies present. In order to get elected, Krnáč needed a majority of 76 votes; as the opposition has only 67 members of parliament, the result depended on Smer, which controls 83 seats. The opposition blamed Smer for Krnáč’s failure, while Smer leader Fico responded that the opposition parties themselves failed to support their own candidate in a unified manner.
Countrywide Events
Western SLOVAKIA
Politicians in no rush to change party financing
PROMISES are meant to be kept. So believe several Slovak NGOs who have launched a campaign to remind politicians of their written pre-election promise to change the rules of party financing, generally believed to contain too many gaps through which murky money can sneak into political parties’ coffers.
Holocaust victims tell their stories
SLOVAKIA is gradually losing the generation that lived through the Holocaust, according to Martin Bútora, one member of the research team that interviewed Slovak Jews who survived the deportations to the concentration camps during the Second World War.
Police detect identity of man who did not know where he came from
POLICE have discovered the identity of the unknown man who was brought to the district police branch in Nitrianske Pravno in early September. The man, who was unshaven and had dreadlocks, said his name was Peetr Kubala and that he did not know when he was born or where he came from. The only thing he remembered was that, as a child, he had lived in the Czech city of Pilsen for some time, and then in Český Krumlov. The man was placed in the mental ward of Bojnice hospital.
Mello still resident of Belize
A BELIZEAN court restored the previously revoked permanent residence of Slovak citizen Karol Mello, an alleged mobster and murder suspect, the TASR newswire reported on September 17, quoting the Plus Jeden Deň daily.
Slovak to head global chamber
THE HEAD of the Slovak Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SOPK), Peter Mihók, has become the first-ever Slovak to be elected head of the World Chambers Federation, the only global institution that gathers business subjects and commercial chambers worldwide, the TASR newswire reported.
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