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Fico Sends Letter to Kiska to Pay for Using Gov't Plane for Private Flights

Fico Sends Letter to Kiska to Pay for Using Gov't Plane for Private Flights

Bratislava, December 5 (TASR) – Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) announced on Tuesday that he has sent a letter to President Andrej Kiska requesting for him to pay the state €990,000 for using the Government’s plane for private purposes. Speaking at an Opposition-sponsored extraordinary session of Parliament devoted to

Fico: Salaries of Constitutional Officials to Go up €1 as of Next Year

Fico: Salaries of Constitutional Officials to Go up €1 as of Next Year

Bratislava, December 5 (TASR) – Salaries of constitutional officials will go up €1 as of January 2018 and Parliament will resolve their unfreezing through an amending proposal to any other law, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) said following a meeting of coalition caucuses in Parliament on Tuesday. “There is a clear

Analysts: Households and Investments Pulled Slovak GDP Up in 3Q17

Analysts: Households and Investments Pulled Slovak GDP Up in 3Q17

Bratislava, December 5 (TASR) – Not only households, but also investments pulled Slovakia’s economy up in the third quarter of 2017, UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia analyst Lubomir Korsnak stated on Tuesday. Domestic demand in 3Q17 was bolstered by all components except for government consumption, which was down by

Kazimir Welcomes Blacklist of Tax Havens: We Don't Like Jiggery-pokery

Kazimir Welcomes Blacklist of Tax Havens: We Don't Like Jiggery-pokery

Brussels, December 5 (TASR-correspondent) – Slovak Finance Minister Peter Kazimir praised the decision of Ecofin on Tuesday to compose a blacklist of 17 tax havens and a grey list of other countries that have been put on note. The press earlier reported that the EU was divided in two blocs – hardliners

Fico: Kalinak One of Best Ministers I've Met

Fico: Kalinak One of Best Ministers I've Met

Bratislava, December 5 (TASR) – Interior Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) is one of the best ministers that I’ve met and I don’t understand why the Opposition, anti-Government media and President Andrej Kiska are so obsessed by him, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) said in Parliament during a no-confidence motion

Lubyova: Teachers' Salaries Might Be Increased as of September 2018

Lubyova: Teachers' Salaries Might Be Increased as of September 2018

Speaking on RTVS’s politics show ‘O 5 Minut 12′ (Five Minutes to Twelve) on Sunday, Education, Science, Research and Sport Minister Martina Lubyova (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) stated that teachers’ salaries might be increased as of September 2018. “Along with Parliamentary Chair Andrej Danko (SNS) I expressed

Most-Hid Not to Vote for Salary Freeze, Calls for Systemic Solution

Most-Hid Not to Vote for Salary Freeze, Calls for Systemic Solution

Samorin, December 2 (TASR) – The co-governing Most-Hid party won’t vote for the salaries of constitutional officials to be frozen, said party leader Bela Bugar following Most-Hid’s Republican Council session in Samorin (Trnava region) on Saturday, adding that Parliament is subordinated neither to the prime minister, nor to the