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Michaela Kovacova

Michaela Kovacova

Matecna: Retail Chains Recognise High Quality of Slovak Foodstuffs

Matecna: Retail Chains Recognise High Quality of Slovak Foodstuffs

Poprad, June 16 (TASR) – Retail chains recognise that Slovak foodstuffs are coming into fashion, not because of their Slovak origin, but because of their high quality, said Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Gabriela Matecna (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) after visiting the production premises of Tatrakon cannery based in

Opposition Turning to Constitutional Court Due to Land Expropriation Law

Opposition Turning to Constitutional Court Due to Land Expropriation Law

Bratislava, June 15 (TASR) – The Opposition is turning to the Constitutional Court due to the law amendment that enables highway construction work on plots of land before they are expropriated, Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) and OLaNO-NOVA MPs told a news conference on Parliament’s premises on Thursday. The two parties

Kiska: Issue of Fighting Corruption Turned into Personal Political War

Kiska: Issue of Fighting Corruption Turned into Personal Political War

Bratislava, June 14 (TASR) – Slovakia is doing well in terms of economics and there has not been such a wide scope for addressing big and substantial problems over the past 25 years as there is now, President Andrej Kiska stated in the State of the Republic address he delivered in

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