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Hospital debt keeps rising
THE DEBT of health-care facilities towards the state-run social insurer Sociálna Poisťovňa continues to rise in 2014, the TASR newswire reported.
Farmers troubled by mild winter
FARMERS in Slovakia are not particularly happy about February’s mild weather, as it means they will have to spend more money on eradicating a worse than usual outbreak of pests brought on by the warmer temperatures.
New second pension pillar rules sail through cabinet
MOST people saving for pensions in the second pension pillar will have to buy their pension for life from a life insurance provider.
EC forecasts says economic recovery to accelerate
Europe’s economic recovery which began in the second quarter of 2013, is expected to continue spreading across countries and gaining strength while also becoming more balanced, the European Commission stated in its Winter Forecast 2014.
Poll: Most will back Smer candidates EP elections
Candidates of the ruling Smer party will be the most popular in May’s European Parliament elections, according to a recent pool. However, only one in four Slovaks would use the chance to vote for their candidates and people also know very little about the EP, according to a poll conducted by Polis agency for the SITA newswire found.
General Prosecutor punished prosecutor Kováčik, but only mildly
General Prosecutor Jaromir Čižnár reprimanded Special Prosecutor Dušan Kováčik in written form for professional failings.
Slovaks more pessimistic about economy than data indicates
Some 48 percent of Slovaks believe that the economic situation in the country has deteriorated over the past 12 months, while only 14 percent think that conditions have improved, the Slovak Statistics Office (ŠÚ) announced on February 25.
Poll: Smer would win general election with 42.1 percent
IF PARLIAMENTARY elections had been held in mid February, they would have been won by the ruling Smer party garnering 42.1 percent of the vote. The party would fill 74 of 150 seats in parliament, according to the phone survey carried out by the Polis polling agency between February 16 and 22 on 1,868 respondents.
Mild punishment for Nitra prosecutors in neo-Nazi assault case
A REVIEW of the investigation into last year’s neo-Nazi attack on patrons of the Mariatchi Bar in Nitra has led to punishment for the prosecutors but not for the police officers involved in the case, the Sme daily reported in its February 25 issue.
Comenius makes list of top 500 universities
COMENIUS University (UK) in Bratislava placed 459th in the 2013 University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP), improving its position from 2012 when it placed 527th. It was the only Slovak school to make it into the top 500 universities list.
Consumer sentiment improves in January
THE CONSUMER confidence indicator improved in January, rising by 5.5 points to -13.5 points compared to December 2013, according to a survey carried out by the Statistics Office (ŠÚ) in early January on 1,151 respondents aged 16 and older.
Complaint in Plachtince case reportedly dismissed
THE POLICE have reportedly ended their investigation of the Plachtince case, one of the biggest scandals of the second government of Robert Fico, pertaining to alleged tampering with tenders organised by the unknown Regional Procurement Agency (ROA) from Horné Plachtince, the Hospodárske Noviny daily reported in its February 25 issue.
Harmonised inflation in Slovakia was zero in January
A HALT in price growth was confirmed by the harmonised data according to the European Union methodology. Harmonised inflation in Slovakia in January was zero percent, the same as inflation measured using national methodology, the SITA newswire reported.
V4 appreciates end to violence in Ukraine
FOREIGN affairs ministers of the Visegrad Group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) who met in Budapest on February 24 praised that the violence in Ukraine has ended, as well as the emergence of a new Ukrainian parliamentary speaker and the release of former-premier Yulia Tymoshenko from jail.
Polis confirms Kiska’s improved standing in presidential race
AFTER polling over 30 percent in the Median agency poll, independent candidate Andrej Kiska also made gains in the most recent poll of the Polis agency, when 23 percent of those polled chose him, compared with 15.3 percent in the January poll carried out by the same agency.
Opposition rejects Fico’s offer for Constitutional amendment
THE OPPOSITION turned down Prime Minister and presidential candidate Robert Fico's offer of a joint proposal to amend the Constitution to define marriage as specifically a union between a man and a woman, and instead submitted its own constitutional law draft toward that end to parliament on February 24. The draft was supported by 40 out of the total of 67 opposition MPs.
Customs officers apprehend Polish man with drugs worth €100,000
SLOVAK customs officers over the weekend seized almost 12 kilogrammes of pseudoephedrine, a precursor for methamphetamine production, carried by a Polish citizen on a Polish bus, Financial Directorate spokesperson Patrícia Maciková told the TASR newswire.
Smer might support constitutional protection of marriage
POLITICIANS of the ruling Smer party suggested when speaking to the media over the weekend that the party might support the Christian Democrats’ initiative to protect marriage as a bond between a man and a woman in the Constitution.
Lajčák: Deal in Ukraine should be observed
NOTWITHSTANDING the current euphoria in Ukraine, it would be wrong to abandon the key points of the agreement reached between the conflicting sides in the country before the most recent dramatic developments, Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák stated on TA3's show In Politics on Sunday, February 23.
Median poll: Fico no longer clear favourite in presidential election
INDEPENDENT candidate Andrej Kiska, who has been considered the most likely candidate to make it to the second round of the presidential election to face Prime Minister Robert Fico, the official candidate of Smer, has increased his voter support and narrowed the gap between his support and that of Fico.
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