Last night, 29 July, border police in the east of Slovakia near Snina detained a group of 7 illegal immigrants Five of those apprehended were from Georgia and two from Chechnya. Three of the Georgians were found near the frontier heading towards the village of Ubla after Ukrainian border guards had notified their Slovak counterparts [...]
Local officials from the town of Prievidza in Central Slovakia are holding talks with an undisclosed Italian shoe-maker. Head of the Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, Jozef Snopko, said the investor could pose new hope for unemployed women in the area, which suffers a 12.14% unemployment rate. Unemployment in the town shot up [...]
The Republic Union of Employers (RUZ) has praised the government Manifesto as it feels it is designed to kick-start Slovakia’s economy and make the labour market more efficient. RUZ President Marian Jusko said: ”In my opinion it will ensure that Slovakia will sail out the crisis, that new jobs will be generated, which in turn will [...]
Prime Minister Iveta Radicova failed to reach an agreement with former PM and Smer-SD party leader Robert Fico yesterday, 29 July, over the opposition’s support for several constitutional acts, including the one aimed at narrowing down MP immunity. The new government needs some support from the opposition because at least 90 lawmakers are required to [...]
In a statement in retaliation to the harsh remarks of former PM Robert Fico about the new government’s Manifesto, the Government Office said the government had to deal with a myriad of problems that it had inherited from its predecessors. “Slovakia has the second highest unemployment rate in the EU, municipalities are in total crisis, [...]
Finance Minister, Ivan Milkos, held an extraordinary press conference this morning to explain a very unusual and absurd situation at the Supreme Court. The finance minister had given the authorisation for an audit to be conducted at the Supreme Court starting 27 July and had informed the Supreme court about it accordingly on 21 July. [...]
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