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Michaela Kovacova

Michaela Kovacova

Bugar: Votes Will Be Found If Court Says Amnesties Can Be Scrapped

Bugar: Votes Will Be Found If Court Says Amnesties Can Be Scrapped

Bratislava, January 3 (TASR) – The Most-Hid party has always supported the scrapping of the so-called Meciar’s amnesties and will also support this at its second reading in Parliament, said Most-Hid leader and Parliamentary Vice-chair Bela Bugar in an interview for TASR on Tuesday. However, Bugar doesn’t intend to

Fico: Budget for Presidency Has Not Been Exhausted, Saving is over €14 mn

Fico: Budget for Presidency Has Not Been Exhausted, Saving is over €14 mn

Bratislava, January 2 (TASR) – I can seriously state today that Slovakia’s Presidency of the Council of the EU was a real success, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) told Monday’s news conference dedicated to the presidency’s evaluation. “It was successful in all aspects and it’s not

Most of PPS Group Detva Employees Support Joining Strike

Most of PPS Group Detva Employees Support Joining Strike

Detva, December 22 (TASR) – Employees of engineering company PPS Group Detva (Banska Bystrica region) on Thursday voted in favour of going on strike, according to a statement sent to TASR on the same day. Almost 87 percent of the 800 employees of PPS Group Detva participated in the vote. Of

Blahova: Labour Ministry Using Double Standards in Case of Clean Day

Blahova: Labour Ministry Using Double Standards in Case of Clean Day

Bratislava, December 22 (TASR) – Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Minister Jan Richter (Smer-SD) has suspended proceedings on the withdrawal of accreditation from the Clean Day resocialisation centre in Galanta (Trnava region), allegedly because he doesn’t have enough arguments, reasons and findings at his disposal, but this looks like

Tejbus: Handlova Mining Tragedy Not Due to Act of God, But Human Factor

Tejbus: Handlova Mining Tragedy Not Due to Act of God, But Human Factor

Bratislava, December 21 (TASR) – The explosion at Handlova Coal Mine (Trencin region) that claimed the lives of 20 people on August 10, 2009 wasn’t caused by an act of God, but by the human factor, former head of the Central Mining Office’s (HBU) mining safety department Vladimir Tejbus

Fico: We Managed to Cross Another Threshold in Reducing Unemployment

Fico: We Managed to Cross Another Threshold in Reducing Unemployment

Bratislava, December 20 (TASR) – The unemployment rate in Slovakia has decreased to 8.78 percent chiefly thanks to active measures employed by the Government to support the labour market, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) told a news conference in Bratislava on Tuesday. “We’ve managed to cross another threshold, and

Beblavy: Foreign Affairs Ministry Concealing Info in Evka Agency Case

Beblavy: Foreign Affairs Ministry Concealing Info in Evka Agency Case

Bratislava, December 19 (TASR) – The Foreign and European Affairs Ministry has provided MPs with almost none of the key documents that they demanded during a probe that they carried out at the ministry, MP Miroslav Beblavy (Independent) told a news conference held on Parliament’s premises on Monday. Moreover, MPs