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Regional agencies defend hiring of Kotleba's wife

THE POSITIONS of Banská Bystrica Region (BBSK) and Banská Bystrica Regional Administration of Roads (BBRSC) on the hiring of the BBSK far-right Governor Marian Kotleba's spouse Frederika as the BBRSC official for reporting anti-social activities vary but both agree with the hiring, the TASR newswire reported.

Compiled by Spectator staff

People want health insurance debtors penalised

THE MAJORITY of Slovaks agree with providing non-payers of health deductions with only a limited form of health care, according to a survey carried out by Focus agency on a sample of 1,010 respondents, the TASR newswire reported February 26.

Compiled by Spectator staff

Five companies handling meal vouchers suspected of cartel agreement

THE ANTI-MONOPOLY Office (PMÚ) suspects five unnamed companies that provide meal tickets and vouchers for various other services of engaging in a cartel agreement, TASR reported February 26.

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Anti-monopoly office fines four construction firms for cartel agreement

SLOVAKIA’s Anti-Monopoly Office (PMÚ) has fined four construction companies for engaging in a cartel agreement in a tender for the reconstruction of an old people's home in Rožnava in Košice region, the TASR newswire reported February 26.

Compiled by Spectator staff

BLOG: Never too late to start with English

THIS term I got a new beginner – senior group, composed of ladies who are mostly retired and therefore have a lot of spare time for learning something new. We have just completed our fifth week together.

No tax for entry to historical towns

HISTORICAL towns in central Slovakia, Banská Štiavnica and Kremnica, do not use the chance to collect taxes from motor vehicles for entering the historical centre and staying there.

Compiled by Spectator staff

Tradition of krne, krňačky, krnohe seems to return

SOME traditions, seemingly on decline, are now returning back in Slovakia – albeit in a modified way.

Compiled by Zuzana Vilikovská

KDH at 25? More a funeral than a celebration

Christian Democrats never found a way to wed pragmatism with inspiration.

Tom Nicholson

It is possible to find several lists of tax dodgers on the internet.

VAT dodgers leave blacklist earlier

NAMES of companies caught red-handed committing VAT-related sins will be deleted from the list of VAT dodgers after they have successfully met all their VAT-related duties for six months.

Compiled by Spectator staff

Unemployment and education remain the focus

High unemployment rates, even as they fall slightly, remain a persistent problem.

Jana Liptáková

Unemployment in decline

Job growth to continue but pace to slow in 2015

Radka Minarechová

Strategy seeks to increase employment

Critics say plan lacks pecific policies, benchmarks

Radka Minarechová

Quote of the Week

“We don’t see any reason why people in the city of Banská Bystrica and in the region should suffer because of the fact that somebody has been elected experimentally as governor.”

Compiled by Spectator staff

Slovak extremists groups can produce rebels in Ukraine

THERE are several unofficial paramilitary groups running military trainings with non-lethal guns in Slovak forests and Martin Keprta, who used to take part in such exercises, now fights for pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.

Roman Cuprik

Gas compressor station in Veľké Kapušany

Pavlis calls meeting over Ukrainian-Russian gas emergency

SLOVAK Economy Minister Pavol Pavlis summoned an emergency meeting with heads of the Slovenský plynárenský priemysel (SPP) gas utility and Eustream gas carrier after Russian company Gazprom warned that deliveries of natural gas to and through Ukraine are threatened.

Compiled by Spectator staff