President Rudolf Schuster urged the government to set a minimum price for which it is willing to sell a 49 per cent stake in gas utility SPP. The president said “if I am to be concrete, maybe Sk150 or Sk200 billion, those are both good prices.” His idea was turned down flat by Prime Minister Mikuláš Dzurinda and dismissed by independent economists as amateurish and unfortunate.
Compiled by Tom Nicholson from press reports.
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