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Michaela Kovacova

Michaela Kovacova

ARDAL: €4.5 bn Needed to Cover Gov't Debt and Deficit Next Year

ARDAL: €4.5 bn Needed to Cover Gov't Debt and Deficit Next Year

Bratislava, December 20 (TASR) – The total amount needed to cover Government debt and the state budget deficit is projected at €4.5 billion next year, TASR learnt from the Debt and Liquidity Management Agency (ARDAL) on Wednesday. The aforementioned sum stems from the approved state budget for 2018 and is

Parliament Passes Next Year's Budget, Deficit to Drop to 0.83% of GDP

Parliament Passes Next Year's Budget, Deficit to Drop to 0.83% of GDP

Bratislava, December 13 (TASR) – Parliament approved the state budget for next year on Wednesday with 82 MPs voting for the draft and 59 MPs being against it, TASR learnt on the same day. The public finance deficit should for the first time drop below 1 percent next year, specifically to

Coalition to Elevate Constitutional Officials' Salaries through Law on VAT

Coalition to Elevate Constitutional Officials' Salaries through Law on VAT

Bratislava, December 6 (TASR) – Coalition MPs will elevate the salaries of constitutional officials by one euro through an amendment to the law on VAT sponsored by Finance Minister Peter Kazimir (Smer-SD), TASR learnt on Wednesday. Parliamentary finance and budget committee chair Ladislav Kamenicky (Smer-SD) submitted the amending proposal on Wednesday,

Lubyova: Teachers' Salaries Might Be Increased as of September 2018

Lubyova: Teachers' Salaries Might Be Increased as of September 2018

Speaking on RTVS’s politics show ‘O 5 Minut 12′ (Five Minutes to Twelve) on Sunday, Education, Science, Research and Sport Minister Martina Lubyova (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) stated that teachers’ salaries might be increased as of September 2018. “Along with Parliamentary Chair Andrej Danko (SNS) I expressed

Most-Hid Not to Vote for Salary Freeze, Calls for Systemic Solution

Most-Hid Not to Vote for Salary Freeze, Calls for Systemic Solution

Samorin, December 2 (TASR) – The co-governing Most-Hid party won’t vote for the salaries of constitutional officials to be frozen, said party leader Bela Bugar following Most-Hid’s Republican Council session in Samorin (Trnava region) on Saturday, adding that Parliament is subordinated neither to the prime minister, nor to the

Focus: Smer Would Have Won Election in November, Followed by SaS and OLaNO

Focus: Smer Would Have Won Election in November, Followed by SaS and OLaNO

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – Had a general election been held in early November, it would have been won by the governing Smer-SD party on 24.8 percent of the votes, garnering 42 seats in Parliament, TASR learnt from a poll carried out by Focus agency, which released the results on

URSO: Electricity Prices for Households to Go Up 2.71 Percent Next Year

URSO: Electricity Prices for Households to Go Up 2.71 Percent Next Year

Bratislava, November 28 (TASR) – Electricity prices for household end-users will go up 2.71 percent year-on-year on average as of January 1, 2018, head of the Office for Regulation of Network Industries (URSO) Lubomir Jahnatek told TASR on Tuesday. The gas price for households will increase by 0.38 percent