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Statistics Office: Inflation in Slovakia at 2.4 percent in January

Statistics Office: Inflation in Slovakia at 2.4 percent in January

Bratislava, February 15 (TASR) – Year-on-year inflation in Slovakia reached 2.4 percent in January, with core inflation standing at 2.7 percent and net inflation at 1.6 percent, the Slovak Statistics Office reported on Thursday. n January, month-on-month cumulative inflation was influenced by core inflation by 0.67 percentage

Kuzmina after Winning Another Silver at PyeongChang: It's Amazing

Kuzmina after Winning Another Silver at PyeongChang: It's Amazing

PyeongChang, February 15 (TASR) – Slovak biathlete Anastasiya Kuzmina has won a second silver medal at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The Russian-born biathlete succeeded in the women’s 15 kilometre individual competition. Slovak success in the biathlon at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre was emphasised by Slovak Paulina Fialkova, who placed 5th.

Matecna: Nearly 80 Vocational Schools to Be Given over €50 mn for Modernisation

Matecna: Nearly 80 Vocational Schools to Be Given over €50 mn for Modernisation

Bratislava, February 15 (TASR) – Almost 80 secondary vocational schools will be given more than €50 million to modernise the material and technical equipment of workspaces and halls of residence, to restore premises and to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, Deputy PM and Agriculture Minister Gabriela Matecna (a Slovak National

Sebej First Slovak to Be Presented with Japan's Order of Rising Sun

Sebej First Slovak to Be Presented with Japan's Order of Rising Sun

Bratislava, February 14 (TASR) – Parliamentary foreign affairs committee chair Frantisek Sebej (Most-Hid) on Wednesday was the first Slovak ever to receive Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class: Gold and Silver Star for his contribution towards deepening mutual understanding between Japan and Slovakia, TASR learnt on the same

More Than 83 percent of Students to Sit Final Exams in English

More Than 83 percent of Students to Sit Final Exams in English

Bratislava, February 14 (TASR) – A total of 43,605 secondary school leavers are about to take the so-called external form of secondary school leaving examinations this year, with more than 80 percent of the students sitting final exams in English, TASR learnt from the Education, Science, Research and Sport Ministry’

Clean Day Resocialisation Facility Definitively Losing Its Licence

Clean Day Resocialisation Facility Definitively Losing Its Licence

Bratislava, February 14 (TASR) – The Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Ministry has definitively withdrawn the licence of the Clean Day resocialisation facility in Galanta (Trnava region), Tvnoviny.sk website reported on Wednesday, adding that the ministry itself confirmed the information for private channel TV Markiza. The ministry announced that

Expert: Court Decision on Babis Widely Misinterpreted

Expert: Court Decision on Babis Widely Misinterpreted

Bratislava, February 14 (TASR) – The fuss surrounding Bratislava Regional Court’s decision to reject Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis’s lawsuit against Slovakia’s Nation’s Memory Institute (UPN) concerning the publication of files on his registration as a former communist Czechoslovak secret service (StB) agent has resulted in many