Thanks to government measures aimed at cracking down on road offences, the number of fatal accidents on Slovak roads were down most of 30 European countries in 2009, states a report released by the European Transport Safety Council. Slovakia registered a 36-percent drop in the number of deaths from 606 in 2008 to 385 in [...]
Austrian company Stef (which has already made some major investments in Revuca and Velky Krtis) now intends to invest in facilities to produce energy from renewable sources in the region of Rimavska Sobota. Existing installations in Revuca and Velky Krtis operate on a co-generation basis using biomass, while the installation at Rimavska Sobota will instead [...]
As it won outright in the elections, PM Fico has been demanding for his SMER-SD party the post of Parliamentary Chair and control over certain public authorities like the Supreme Audit Office or the Office of Public Procurement. Nationalist party SNS is also trying to lobby for control over these two authorities, but the new [...]
The four parties that so vehemently celebrated the election results, even though they only just got a majority in parliament, are now dealing with the reality and trying to reach agreements on various issues that could pose problems. They now have to come up with a format of government that will work and which will [...]
Future candidate for the PM post and leader of SDKU-DS, Iveta Radicova, received a letter from President Gasparovic addressed to all four centre-right parties (SDKU-DS, SaS, KDH and Most-Hid), calling on them to come tomorrow to discuss the composition of the new Slovak government and its manifesto. This coincides with the end of the period [...]
The crisis did not hit everyone. For example, Slovakia’s largest civil engineering project company Dopravoprojekt Bratislava, generated sales revenues of EUR 21 million last year, which stood up against last year’s results, while its net profit was even 1.5% higher y/y to reach EUR 3.2 million. Just about all of the profit, namely EUR 3.1 [...]
The new government of SDKU-DS, SaS, KDH and Most-Hid has very little time to get its policies mapped out before they take up power. Discussions have already being going on in the background since the elections, but the official negotiations of party representatives on the new coalition agreement will only start tomorrow 22 June, one [...]
A recent report published today by the Labour Ministry revealed that it takes an unemployed Slovak over 13 months on average to find a new job. The length of time it takes to register with job centres has also increased by around 2.7 months over last year, which Volksbank analyst Vladimir Vano says is a [...]
The official parliamentary mandate certificates were handed over today to 146 of the 150 lawmakers elected to the next four-year term in parliament in the 12 June elections, while the four absentees (Pavol Paska – Smer-SD, Ivan Chaban – SDKU-DS, Ivan Uhliarik -KDH and Laszlo Nagy – Most-Hid) will be awarded their certificates at a [...]
The Slovak Statistical Office announced today that the consumer prices of fuels varied in the week of 7-13 June. The price of 98-octane dropped by 0.56 percent week-on-week to EUR 1.415/litre, and 95-octane petrol was down 0.47 percent to EUR 1.266/litre. On the contrary, diesel prices were slightly up, rising by 0.09 percent to EUR [...]
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