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OTS: Feliks Nowosielski Bust Marks Polish Independence Day

OTS: Feliks Nowosielski Bust Marks Polish Independence Day

*** TASR Original Text Service (OTS) *** Polish Independence Day is indirectly related to the other European countries because they all emerged from the circumstances at the end of World War I. The Polish holiday is therefore simultaneously a celebration of the reemergence of a Polish state and a commemoration of those

Makuch to Quit as Slovak Central Bank Governor in March

Makuch to Quit as Slovak Central Bank Governor in March

Bratislava, November 27 (TASR) – Central bank (NBS) governor Jozef Makuch at a meeting of the NBS Banking Council on Tuesday stated that he’ll quit his post in March of next year. Makuch, whose official tenure should have ended in 2021, also said that he’ll carry out his tasks

Slovakia Calls on Russia to Observe International Law in Sea of Azov

Slovakia Calls on Russia to Observe International Law in Sea of Azov

Bratislava, November 26 (TASR) – Slovakia has called on Russia to observe the international law and allow free access to the Ukrainian ports situated on the shore of the Sea of Azov, stated the Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Ministry in a statement on Monday in connection with an incident involving

Economy Minister Ziga Presents Third Anti-bureaucracy Package

Economy Minister Ziga Presents Third Anti-bureaucracy Package

Bratislava, November 26 (TASR) – Economy Minister Peter Ziga (Smer-SD) presented a third anti-bureaucracy package containing 36 measures to reduce red tape and support business and digitisation at a news conference on Monday with Economy Ministry State Secretary Rastislav Chovanec in attendance. According to Ziga, the latest collection of 36 measures

Premier: If Participation in Marrakech Means Support, Slovakia Won't Go

Premier: If Participation in Marrakech Means Support, Slovakia Won't Go

Brussels/Bratislava, November 25 (TASR correspondent) – Slovakia will in no way support the UN Global Compact for Migration, and if Slovakia’s participation in the negotiations on the compact in Marrakech next month at any level – ministerial or other – means automatically joining, nobody will attend the negotiations on behalf of

Kiska: We Must Refuse Questioning of Ukrainian Holodomor

Kiska: We Must Refuse Questioning of Ukrainian Holodomor

Kiev, November 24 (TASR correspondent) – It is a moral duty of countries not to forget the famine in the 1930s and do everything so that such tragedy never recurs, Slovak President Andrej Kiska stated at the presidential forum on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor in Ukraine

Danko: SNS Won't Back Down from Imposing Special Levy on Chain Stores

Danko: SNS Won't Back Down from Imposing Special Levy on Chain Stores

Bratislava, November 23 (TASR) – The Slovak National Party (SNS) won’t backtrack from its plan to promote a special levy for retail chains and its nominees won’t allow themselves to be intimidated, SNS leader and Parliamentary Chair Andrej Danko said at a press briefing in the company of Minister