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Green Party to Feature Equal Number of Men and Women in Election

Green Party to Feature Equal Number of Men and Women in Election

Bratislava, February 5 (TASR) – The new Slovak Green Party (SZS) is to run in the 2016 general election for the first time ever, introducing a seven-point programme for better and healthier Slovakia, TASR learnt on Friday. “Our priority is the environment, specifically the use of natural resources, returnable PET bottles

Opposition to Deliver Signatures for Extraordinary Parliamentary Session

Opposition to Deliver Signatures for Extraordinary Parliamentary Session

Bratislava, February 5 (TASR) – The Opposition parties plan to deliver the signatures necessary for convening an extraordinary parliamentary session concerning health care and education on Monday (February 8), TASR learnt on Friday. Ordinary People-NOVA, Christian Democrats (KDH), Most-Hid and Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) said they would attend the meeting, where

Prime Minister Fico Stops By to Tour Jaguar Land Rover Facilities in UK

Prime Minister Fico Stops By to Tour Jaguar Land Rover Facilities in UK

Solihull, February 4 (TASR) – Slovakia has an adequate amount of manpower for the new automobile maker Jaguar Land Rover and its plans to place its large-scale investment in Nitra, Prime Minister Robert Fico said during Thursday’s visit to the Jaguar Land Rover facility in Solihull, near Birmingham. “The inking

Fico Wants Guarantees New UK Measures Won't Harm Slovak Expats

Fico Wants Guarantees New UK Measures Won't Harm Slovak Expats

London/Bratislava, February 4 (TASR) – Slovakia will ask for guarantees that new proposals regarding social aid for expatriates from other EU countries who work in Great Britain won’t adversely affect locally employed Slovaks. “Officially, we have 60,000 Slovaks in the country and I couldn’t agree with them

Kazimir: GDP Growth at 3.2 percent in 2016 and 3.6 percent in 2017

Kazimir: GDP Growth at 3.2 percent in 2016 and 3.6 percent in 2017

Bratislava, February 4 (TASR) – Slovakia’s economy is expected to grow at 3.2 percent of GDP this year before speeding up the pace to 3.6 percent in 2017, Finance Minister Peter Kazimir announced on Thursday. The ministry has also reevaluated its estimate of economic growth for 2015 to

Beblavy Calls on Fico to Shut Down Klinika Kostka

Beblavy Calls on Fico to Shut Down Klinika Kostka

Bratislava, February 4 (TASR) – Non-parliamentary #Siet (Network) party called upon Prime Minister Robert Fico on Thursday to abrogate a contract the state-owned health insurer Vseobecna Zdravotna Poistnovna (VsZP) has concluded with a clinic called Klinika Kostka. “Slovak policyholders are contributing every day to doctor [Pavol] Kostka’s daily personal profit

ISU: Cabinet Makes New Promises without Doing Earlier Homework

ISU: Cabinet Makes New Promises without Doing Earlier Homework

Bratislava, February 4 (TASR) – The Government is coming up with new promises while old commitments remain unfulfilled, Slovak Teachers Initiative (ISU) representatives told a press briefing on Thursday. The striking teachers pointed out that the Government has yet to deliver on a parliamentary resolution dated December 2012, whereby the Cabinet