Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO) announced that Slovak pharmaceuticals distributor Med-Art will build a logistics center for EUR 16.5m in Banska Bystrica industrial park. The investment will produce 150 jobs. Another investor in the park will be Slovak bus transport company Turancar, which plans to build a branch with technical equipment for EUR 1.4m in the park.
Spokesman for the Christian democrat party KDH, Martin Krajcovic, informed press agency TASR that one of the things outlined in the preamble to the Manifesto is that the government wants to prepare a constitutional law that will counteract the amnesty introduced by Vladimir Meciar back in 1998, when he was acting as interim president. Krajcovic [...]
The National Property Fund (FNM), which is to be abolished completely at the end of the year, said goodbye to the complete management yesterday, 28 July. The new government decided the best thing to do was clear the table by replacing all top managers with immediate effect. Anna Bubenikova has been given the role of [...]
Former labour minister Viera Tomanova (Smer-SD) sent out a call for tenders just a few days before the parliamentary elections worth EUR 5 million. The tender was to find a supervisor for the drawing of European funds. The current labour minister Jozef Mihal (SaS) managed to cancel the tender. “The ministry suspected that the terms [...]
Slovak hammer-thrower, Libor Charfreitag, made sports history yesterday, 28 July, at the Estadio Olimpico stadium in Barcelona by winning Slovakia’s first ever European title as he took gold medal. His best result to date was when he won the world bronze back in 2007. Charfreitag’s winning throw of 80m 2 cm was almost 1 metre further [...]
After taking up his post as Foreign Affairs Minister, Mikulas Dzurinda wasted no time and headed off on his first official visit to the Czech neighbours. The second country on his agenda is Germany, which shows the former PM is well aware of the importance of Germany for the Slovak economy. He will head to [...]
Yesterday, Health Minister Ivan Uhliarik announced that director of Bratislava University Hospital, Miroslav Vadura, had been dismissed due to the state hospital selling off a key plot of land in the Kramare district of the city. The hospital decided to sell 7 hectares of land at the ‘bargain’ price of EUR 5.72 million to ‘the [...]
Following the recall of former Director General of the Tax Authority, Igor Sulaj, on 13 July Finance Minister Ivan Miklos put Zlatica Ondruskova in his seat as an emergency measure. Today, 28 July, Miklos authorised Vasil Panko to replace her in the top job at the Tax Authority, but again only as an interim appointment, [...]
Former Slovak President, Michal Kovac, spoke to TASR today, saying his health was relatively good. “It seems better… but you never know. As we say – man proposes, God disposes. It’s in God’s hands now,” said Kovac, demonstrating his pragmatic outlook on life once again. Just now the ex-President is hospitalised at the Neurological Clinic of [...]
Data of the Slovak Statistics Office show that industrial producer prices in Slovakia were up 0.8% y/y in June, which is quite a change from the May figures, which showed a y/y drop of 0.5%. Prices for the domestic market, although still lagging behind last year, have slowed from the 3.1% recorded in May to [...]
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