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Michaela Kovacova

Michaela Kovacova

Fico: Let's Rejoice at the Inking of CETA Trade Agreement

Fico: Let's Rejoice at the Inking of CETA Trade Agreement

Brussels, October 30 (TASR) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Council President Donald Tusk, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico – representing Slovakia as the country presiding over the Council of the EU – and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker signed the European-Canadian CETA trade agreement at 2 p.m. in Brussels on

Dominika Cibulkova Triumphs Over Angelique Kerber to Win WTA Finals Title

Dominika Cibulkova Triumphs Over Angelique Kerber to Win WTA Finals Title

Singapore, October 30 (TASR) – Slovak tennis player Dominika Cibulkova claimed the biggest victory of her career by decisively defeating world’s number one Angelique Kerber 6-3 6-4 in the WTA Finals in Singapore on Sunday. The Slovak, 27, secured her way into the final after her dramatic three-set semifinal win

Parliament Kills Bill to Reduce Quorum for Referenda

Parliament Kills Bill to Reduce Quorum for Referenda

Bratislava, October 27 (TASR) – The quorum (minimum percentaqe of voters) required to make referenda valid won’t be lowered and will remain at the current 50 percent, as Parliament on Thursday rejected the Constitutional amendment sponsored by Boris Kollar’s We Are Family opposition party. We Are Family proposed to

Cabinet: Supranational Firms in EU to Provide More Information to Tax Offices

Cabinet: Supranational Firms in EU to Provide More Information to Tax Offices

Bratislava, October 26 (TASR) – Supranational companies should provide annual reports including detailed business information to tax offices in EU member countries as of next year, according to an amendment to the law on international assistance and cooperation in tax administration approved by the Cabinet at its regular session on Wednesday.

Parliament Approves Ban on Unathorised Train Patrols

Parliament Approves Ban on Unathorised Train Patrols

Bratislava, October 25 (TASR) – Only the police or people assigned to the task by railway network operators or carriers will be able to keep tabs on public order on trains and at railway stations as of February, as MPs passed a respective bill by 98 votes on Tuesday. Justice Minister

AKO Poll: Smer Top with 27.5%, Seven More Parties would Make It to Parliament

AKO Poll: Smer Top with 27.5%, Seven More Parties would Make It to Parliament

Bratislava, October 24 (TASR) – If a general election had taken place in October, it would have been won by Prime Minister Robert Fico’s Smer-SD party with 27.5 percent of the votes, which would have given the party 44 seats in Parliament, an AKO agency poll revealed on Monday.

Charges Pressed against Lipsic Partly Based on Motion Filed by Kocner

Charges Pressed against Lipsic Partly Based on Motion Filed by Kocner

Bratislava, October 19 (TASR) – Charges pressed against former interior minister and until recently OLaNO-NOVA MP Daniel Lipsic and former chief of the Interior Ministry’s press department and current MP Gabor Grendel (OLaNO-NOVA) weren’t ordered by politicians, businessman Marian Kocner, who filed criminal complaints against the two, told a