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Matecna: Dishonest Retail Practices Concern Almost Entire EU

Matecna: Dishonest Retail Practices Concern Almost Entire EU

Bratislava, November 28 (TASR) – Dishonest trading practices in the EU don’t only concern Slovakia but almost all member countries, with this problem being one of key issues dealt with by Slovakia in agriculture during its Presidency of the EU Council, said Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Gabriela Matecna on

Slovakia Signs Memos on Drawing €113 million from EEA/Norway Grants

Slovakia Signs Memos on Drawing €113 million from EEA/Norway Grants

Bratislava, November 28 (TASR) – Slovakia will be able to draw €113 million from the European Economic Area and Norway Grants until 2021 following the signing of relevant memos by Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak and Norway’s Minister of EEA and EU Affairs Elisabeth Vik Aspaker in

Ziga: Slovak EU Presidency Has Managed to Do Away with Geo-blocking

Ziga: Slovak EU Presidency Has Managed to Do Away with Geo-blocking

Brussels, November 28 (TASR-correspondent) – The Slovak Council of the EU Presidency has managed to secure a general agreement among member states to scrap trade barriers in internet commerce, said Economy Minister Peter Ziga at the Council of the EU for Competitiveness in Brussels on Monday. So-called “unjustified geo-blocking” on the

P. Dubcek: BMW Was Prevented from Examining Father's Crashed Car

P. Dubcek: BMW Was Prevented from Examining Father's Crashed Car

Bratislava, November 27 (TASR) – Pavol Dubcek, son of the 1968 Prague Spring leader and later post-communist Czechoslovak parliamentary chairman Alexander Dubcek, has told TABLET.TV that he has some doubts concerning the death of his father in November 1992. Dubcek died in hospital two months after a motorway car crash

Kiska: Nowhere Have I Seen So Many Sad People as in Cuba

Kiska: Nowhere Have I Seen So Many Sad People as in Cuba

Bratislava, November 27 (TASR) – The legacy of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro should be evaluated by the Cuban people, Slovak President Andrej Kiska wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday. “The rest of us can only wish them to see Cuba as a happy country and a real island of

Fico: Dubcek Was Global Giant in 1960s and 1970s

Fico: Dubcek Was Global Giant in 1960s and 1970s

Uhrovec, November 26 (TASR) – Alexander Dubcek was like a book cited by many, but few have actually read it, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Saturday in a speech at a commemorative event marking the 95th anniversary of the 1968 Prague Spring leader’s birth in Uhrovec (Trencin region). “Perhaps

Sebej Slams Castro's Regime, Blaha "Afflicted" by His Death

Sebej Slams Castro's Regime, Blaha "Afflicted" by His Death

Bratislava, November 26 (TASR) – Executions of political prisoners, economic misery and a lack of freedom are the first things popping up in my mind when Fidel Castro is mentioned, parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Frantisek Sebej (Most-Hid) told TASR on Saturday in reaction to Castro’s death late on Friday.