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Kazimir Welcomes Blacklist of Tax Havens: We Don't Like Jiggery-pokery

Kazimir Welcomes Blacklist of Tax Havens: We Don't Like Jiggery-pokery

Brussels, December 5 (TASR-correspondent) – Slovak Finance Minister Peter Kazimir praised the decision of Ecofin on Tuesday to compose a blacklist of 17 tax havens and a grey list of other countries that have been put on note. The press earlier reported that the EU was divided in two blocs – hardliners

Fico: Kalinak One of Best Ministers I've Met

Fico: Kalinak One of Best Ministers I've Met

Bratislava, December 5 (TASR) – Interior Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) is one of the best ministers that I’ve met and I don’t understand why the Opposition, anti-Government media and President Andrej Kiska are so obsessed by him, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) said in Parliament during a no-confidence motion

No-confidence Motion in Kalinak to Be Held on Tuesday

No-confidence Motion in Kalinak to Be Held on Tuesday

Bratislava, December 1 (TASR) – Interior Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) will face a no-confidence motion in Parliament on Tuesday (December 5), according to a decision made by Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko (Slovak National Party/SNS) on Friday. Three Opposition parties – Freedom and Solidarity (SaS), OLaNO and We Are Family – earlier in

Chovanec: RIA 2020 Strategy to Neaten Legislative Setting for Business

Chovanec: RIA 2020 Strategy to Neaten Legislative Setting for Business

Bratislava, December 1 (TASR) – The Economy Ministry’s RIA 2020 regulatory strategy, due to be dealt with by the Government in January, should arrange more efficiently the legislative framework for business, Economy Ministry State Secretary Rastislav Chovanec said at a seminar at the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Bratislava

UniCredit Bank: Egg Crisis Hits Europe, Prices to Continue Surging

UniCredit Bank: Egg Crisis Hits Europe, Prices to Continue Surging

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – Following what has been dubbed as a ‘butter crisis’, involving the product’s scarcity on the market and subsequently high prices, an egg crisis appears to have arrived recently in Slovakia and the EU as a whole, with the prices of eggs likely due to continue

Cabinet Okays Strategy to Deal with Long-term Unemployed

Cabinet Okays Strategy to Deal with Long-term Unemployed

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – Inclusion of the long-term unemployed and a more targeted provision of social benefits are among the key points of a document on tackling poverty and social exclusion approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday. The Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Ministry, which drew up the paper,

GEFCO Chief: Slovakia Could Feature Rail Terminal for New Silk Road

GEFCO Chief: Slovakia Could Feature Rail Terminal for New Silk Road

Bratislava, November 28 (TASR) – Slovakia could feature a transport terminal that would make up part of the Chinese One Belt One Road initiative, GEFCO managing board chairman Luc Nadal has told TASR. “China is promoting its initiative One Belt One Road, which is an update of the medieval Silk Road,