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Banks and Financials Now Required to Be More Prudent in Loan Provision

Banks and Financials Now Required to Be More Prudent in Loan Provision

Bratislava, January 2 (TASR) – Financial institutions need to be more prudent when providing loans now that an amendment to the Consumer Loans Act has taken effect as of January 1. The piece of legislation was drafted to accommodate recommendations by the Slovak central bank (NBS) from 2014 to introduce more

Matovic: Fico Lies, Has Known About the Case for Six Years

Matovic: Fico Lies, Has Known About the Case for Six Years

Bratislava, February 5 (TASR) – Prime Minister Robert Fico lies when he claims that he acquired the evidence of alleged tax fraud against Igor Matovic-regionPRESS firm, dated from 2008, only these days and thus he released the material on Friday, OLaNO-NOVA leader Igor Matovic said at a press conference on the

Foreign Affairs Ministry Receives Peace Envoys from Ukraine

Foreign Affairs Ministry Receives Peace Envoys from Ukraine

Bratislava, February 5 (TASR) – An end to war, family, work and happiness – these are the wishes that Slovak pupils extended to their Ukrainian peers and their families on hand-made paper doves stuck to a map of Ukraine presented in Bratislava on Friday. As part of the international ‘Children for Peace’

Kazimir: GDP Growth at 3.2 percent in 2016 and 3.6 percent in 2017

Kazimir: GDP Growth at 3.2 percent in 2016 and 3.6 percent in 2017

Bratislava, February 4 (TASR) – Slovakia’s economy is expected to grow at 3.2 percent of GDP this year before speeding up the pace to 3.6 percent in 2017, Finance Minister Peter Kazimir announced on Thursday. The ministry has also reevaluated its estimate of economic growth for 2015 to

ISU: Cabinet Makes New Promises without Doing Earlier Homework

ISU: Cabinet Makes New Promises without Doing Earlier Homework

Bratislava, February 4 (TASR) – The Government is coming up with new promises while old commitments remain unfulfilled, Slovak Teachers Initiative (ISU) representatives told a press briefing on Thursday. The striking teachers pointed out that the Government has yet to deliver on a parliamentary resolution dated December 2012, whereby the Cabinet

Education Ministry: Edunet_SK to Give Schools Virtual Private Network

Education Ministry: Edunet_SK to Give Schools Virtual Private Network

Bratislava, February 3 (TASR) – Edunet_SK doesn’t entail buying internet connection for schools; rather, the project will provide schools with a virtual private network (VPN) enabling connection even to the Education, Science, Research and Sport Ministry data centre, ministry spokesperson Beata Dupalova Ksenzsighova said Wednesday. Such a network architecture

Fico Urges Teachers to Resume Classes, Rules out Funding Decisions

Fico Urges Teachers to Resume Classes, Rules out Funding Decisions

Bratislava, February 3 (TASR) – According to Prime Minister Robert Fico, the time has come for teachers still on strike to go back to their pupils and students, TASR learnt at a press briefing in Bratislava on Wednesday. Fico was encapsulating what was presented as the final opinion of the Government