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NKU Finds Mismanagement at MH Management, Calls for Shutdown

NKU Finds Mismanagement at MH Management, Calls for Shutdown

Bratislava, May 15 (TASR) – MH Management – a successor of the National Property Fund, administering state property in several companies with the total worth of almost €250 million – should be shut down, as it’s far from meeting its original purpose, recommended the Supreme Audit Office (NKU) on Friday following a

Matovic: People in State Quarantine Can't Prove They Were Infected There

Matovic: People in State Quarantine Can't Prove They Were Infected There

Bratislava, May 14 (TASR) – There’s no evidence to back some people’s complaints that they were infected with the novel coronavirus in state quarantine facilities, where they were mandatorily placed after entering Slovakia, said Prime Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNo) during Question Time in Parliament on Thursday. Matovic was responding

Smer MPs Podmanicky & Kery Push for Bill to Close Shops on Sundays

Smer MPs Podmanicky & Kery Push for Bill to Close Shops on Sundays

Bratislava, May 14 (TASR) – Opposition Smer-SD MPs Jan Podmanicky and Marian Kery on Thursday announced that they’ll soon approach governing coalition law-makers to gain support for a bill to ban sales in shops on Sundays. If governing MPs refuse to join the initiative, the two Smer figures want to

Police Fine Man €1,000 for Refusing to Put On Face Mask in Car in Bratislava

Police Fine Man €1,000 for Refusing to Put On Face Mask in Car in Bratislava

Bratislava, May 12 (TASR) – The police fined a man €1,000 for not heeding their call to put on a face mask in a car stopped for a road check in Bratislava in the wee hours of Tuesday, it was reported on the police’s Facebook page on the same

One New Daily Case of Coronavirus in Slovakia, No Deaths

One New Daily Case of Coronavirus in Slovakia, No Deaths

Bratislava, May 3 (TASR) – Only one new case of novel coronavirus was confirmed in Slovakia on Saturday, while there were no deaths from COVID-19, TASR learnt from the National Centre for Health Information on Sunday. A total of 1,408 people have tested positive for coronavirus, with more than 96,

Matovic: Pupils Could Be Allowed to Go to School for One Month in Summer

Matovic: Pupils Could Be Allowed to Go to School for One Month in Summer

BRATISLAVA – Prime Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO), speaking on RTVS’s politics discussion programme ‘Sobotne dialogy’ (Saturday Dialogues), conceded that children could be “allowed” to go to school for at least a month during the two-month holidays in July and August to make it up at least partly for the coronavirus

UHS: Bad Polish Poultry Meat Imported to Slovakia, Ruins Domestic Firms

UHS: Bad Polish Poultry Meat Imported to Slovakia, Ruins Domestic Firms

Bratislava, May 1 (TASR) – Defective Polish poultry meat, which would ordinarily end up in incinerators, continues to be imported to Slovakia, at the same time causing economic troubles to domestic poultry breeders, TASR was told by Daniel Molnar, director of Slovakia’s Union of Poultry Breeders. “The fact that low-quality