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ANS: Health-Care System Lacks Tens of Millions of Euros

ANS: Health-Care System Lacks Tens of Millions of Euros

Bratislava, April 5 (TASR) – Small and medium-sized hospitals reiterate that the health-care system will be short of €95 million in 2016 due to increasing expenditures on salaries, said Slovak Hospitals Association (ANS) president Marian Petko on Facilities associated in ANS will be short €27 million this year, stated Petko. “We

115 Names on Slovak List of Panama Papers, Mostly Foreigners

115 Names on Slovak List of Panama Papers, Mostly Foreigners

Bratislava/Praha, April 5 (TASR) – Around 11.5 million documents have been leaked from the Mossack Fonseca law firm based in the tax haven of Panama, with at least 115 people from Slovakia, the Czech Investigative Journalism Centre reported on its website on Tuesday. The Slovak list isn’t, however,

Aviation Office: Mid-air Crash Caused by Pilot Taking Photos

Aviation Office: Mid-air Crash Caused by Pilot Taking Photos

Slavnica, April 4 (TASR) – An official investigation released Monday into the fatal mid-air collision of two Let L-410 Turbolet aircraft during a rehearsal of synchronised skydiving for an air show in Slavnica (Trencin region) last August has indicated that a lack of discipline by one of the pilots was responsible.

LSNS: Police Return All Arms and Licence to MP Krupa

LSNS: Police Return All Arms and Licence to MP Krupa

Banska Bystrica/Bratislava, April 4 (TASR) – Police on Monday returned all firearms and the licence to carry them to Kotleba-People’s Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) MP Peter Krupa, who saw them seized in late March, LSNS vice-chairman Rastislav Schlosar told TASR on Monday. When confiscating Krupa’s arms, police told

SaS MPs Call Upon Defence Minister to Make Personnel Changes

SaS MPs Call Upon Defence Minister to Make Personnel Changes

Bratislava, April 4 (TASR) – Incoming Defence Minister Peter Gajdos (SNS nominee) should make three instant personnel changes, according to Defence and Security Committee members Lubomir Galko and Milan Laurencik (both SaS), who called upon the minister to embrace the changes at a press conference on Monday. Galko (former defence minister/

Fico: Respect for Fallen WWII Soldiers Is Part of National Policy

Fico: Respect for Fallen WWII Soldiers Is Part of National Policy

Bratislava, April 4 (TASR) – Respect for the soldiers who fell during the liberation of Bratislava and the whole of Slovakia is one of the basic pillars of national policies, said Prime Minister Robert Fico at the Slavin memorial in Bratislava on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the capital’

Pellegrini Sworn Into Office by Prime Minister Fico

Pellegrini Sworn Into Office by Prime Minister Fico

Bratislava, April 4 (TASR) – Deputy Prime Minister for Investments Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) was sworn into office by Prime Minister Robert Fico on Monday, TASR learnt on the same day. Fico and Pellegrini mainly discussed an amendment to the law on the powers of this particular post with the aim of