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Michaela Kovacova

Michaela Kovacova

Stats Office: Revenues in Industry Down 3.7 Pecent Y-o-Y in April

Stats Office: Revenues in Industry Down 3.7 Pecent Y-o-Y in April

Bratislava, June 13 (TASR) – Revenues for own activities and goods posted a month-on-month rise only in information and communication services in April 2017, going up 2.1 percent, the Slovak Statistics Office reported on Tuesday. Meanwhile, m-o-m decreases were recorded in the following sectors: in transport and warehousing – by 5.

ZSR Organises Simulated Colllision of Trains and Car

ZSR Organises Simulated Colllision of Trains and Car

Bratislava, June 8 (TASR) – The state-run rail infrastructure owner Zeleznice Slovenskej Republiky (ZSR) organised a simulated collision of train engines with a passenger car at a railroad crossing in Bratislava’s borough of Raca on Thursday. For the collision, a set of two engines weighing about 174 tonnes crashed at

Danko: Thirteenth Salary Shouldn't Be Mandatory for All

Danko: Thirteenth Salary Shouldn't Be Mandatory for All

Bratislava, June 7 (TASR) – The thirteen and fourteenth salaries that the governing coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) wants to introduce in legislation shouldn’t be mandatory for all, said SNS leader and Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko on Radio Expres’s ‘Brano Zavodsky Nazivo’ talk show on Wednesday. SNS intends to

ZUNO Wound Up in Slovakia, All Activities Transferred to Tatra Banka

ZUNO Wound Up in Slovakia, All Activities Transferred to Tatra Banka

Bratislava, June 5 (TASR) – ZUNO bank ceased its operations on the Slovak banking market as of June 2, with Tatra banka of the same banking group, Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI), acting as its successor, Tatra banka spokesperson Zuzana Povodova told TASR on Monday. RBI announced in early October 2016

Victims of Fight for Freedom Honoured by Commemorating Hristo Botev

Victims of Fight for Freedom Honoured by Commemorating Hristo Botev

Bratislava, June 2 (TASR) – The one who falls in the struggle for freedom does not die, said Bulgarian Ambassador to Slovakia Yordanka Chobanova, recalling the words of Bulgarian poet Hristo Botev during Friday’s ceremony commemorating the heroes who fell in the fight for independence and freedom. In her speech,

Budaj Calls on Youth to Endure and Demand also Abolishment of Corruption

Budaj Calls on Youth to Endure and Demand also Abolishment of Corruption

Bratislava, June 1 (TASR) – Two powers – endurance and the public – have squeezed Vladimir Meciar’s immoral amnesties out of Slovakia and the same two powers will oust corruption from Slovakia, too, OLaNO-NOVA MP Jan Budaj told a news conference in Bratislava on Thursday, adding that this is the main message

TIS: Record Number of People Willing to Report Corruption

TIS: Record Number of People Willing to Report Corruption

Bratislava, May 30 (TASR) – Four in ten Slovaks claim that they would definitely or probably report corruption to the police if they encountered it, which is the highest proportion since Transparency International Slovakia (TIS) began measuring public engagement in the fight against corruption in 2002, according to a recent survey