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Pellegrini: Car Industry and Mining among Spheres to Cooparate with Iran

Pellegrini: Car Industry and Mining among Spheres to Cooparate with Iran

Bratislava/Tehran, March 9 (TASR) – Engineering, mining, the automotive industry and research and development seem to be promising spheres for possible business on the Iranian market for Slovak companies, Deputy Prime Minister for Investments and Informatisation Peter Pellegrini said Thursday after returning from a multi-day trip to Tehran. For example,

Matovic and Mihal Fined for Absence in Parliament

Matovic and Mihal Fined for Absence in Parliament

Bratislava, March 9 (TASR) – Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko (SNS) has decided that MPs Igor Matovic (OLaNO-NOVA) and Jozef Mihal (Independent) will both be stripped of half their monthly salary and the lump sum reimbursements for other costs related to their posts due to their absence in Parliament last month, TASR

Fico: If EU President Election Is Postponed, Tusk Won't Be Re-elected

Fico: If EU President Election Is Postponed, Tusk Won't Be Re-elected

Bratislava, March 8 (TASR) – If the Polish Government succeeds in postponing the European Council president election until a different EU summit, the incumbent Donald Tusk won’t be re-elected, said Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico at the parliamentary European affairs committee on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Fico supported Tusk’s bid, stating

Suspect Device Removed from Presidential Palace Gardens

Suspect Device Removed from Presidential Palace Gardens

Bratislava, March 7 (TASR) – Pyrotechnicians on Monday dealt with a suspect device fixed to a tree in a publicly accessible part of the Presidential Palace gardens, President Andrej Kiska’s communications advisor Roman Krpelan wrote on a social network on the same day. “The device resembled a dictaphone and a

Fico Rings Kocan, Calls VsZP Recovery Plan "Bosh"

Fico Rings Kocan, Calls VsZP Recovery Plan "Bosh"

Bratislava, March 7 (TASR) – Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) on Tuesday published on Facebook a recording of his phone call with director of state-run health insurer Vseobecna zdravotna poistovna (VsZP) Miroslav Kocan in which he lambasted the latter for what he described as a “nonsensical” recovery plan for VsZP. “I

EKS Saves More than €192 million Overall in 61,300 Deals

EKS Saves More than €192 million Overall in 61,300 Deals

Bratislava, March 6 (TASR) – More than 61,300 deals have already been contracted as part of the Electronic Contracting System (EKS), with the total price of the goods and services originally reaching almost €822.7 million, but the competitive environment provided by the system squeezed the total final price by

Two Syrians from Germany Arrested in Slovakia for Smuggling Migrants

Two Syrians from Germany Arrested in Slovakia for Smuggling Migrants

Bratislava, March 6 (TASR) – The Slovak police have pressed charges of people smuggling against two Syrian nationals with temporary stays in Germany who were caught attempting to smuggle a 23-year old-Syrian woman with two children through the Rajka-Cunovo crossing at the Hungarian-Slovak border near Bratislava last week, TASR learnt on