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Fico Threatens to Link Vote on Salary Freeze to No-Confidence Motion

Fico Threatens to Link Vote on Salary Freeze to No-Confidence Motion

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – If MPs don’t change their stance on a salary freeze for some constitutional officials by the end of this year, I’ll link the vote to a no-confidence motion in the Government, stated Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) on Wednesday after MPs refused to adopt

UniCredit Bank: Egg Crisis Hits Europe, Prices to Continue Surging

UniCredit Bank: Egg Crisis Hits Europe, Prices to Continue Surging

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – Following what has been dubbed as a ‘butter crisis’, involving the product’s scarcity on the market and subsequently high prices, an egg crisis appears to have arrived recently in Slovakia and the EU as a whole, with the prices of eggs likely due to continue

Cabinet Okays Strategy to Deal with Long-term Unemployed

Cabinet Okays Strategy to Deal with Long-term Unemployed

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – Inclusion of the long-term unemployed and a more targeted provision of social benefits are among the key points of a document on tackling poverty and social exclusion approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday. The Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Ministry, which drew up the paper,

Focus: Smer Would Have Won Election in November, Followed by SaS and OLaNO

Focus: Smer Would Have Won Election in November, Followed by SaS and OLaNO

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – Had a general election been held in early November, it would have been won by the governing Smer-SD party on 24.8 percent of the votes, garnering 42 seats in Parliament, TASR learnt from a poll carried out by Focus agency, which released the results on

NBS: Indebtedness of Slovak Households among Highest in CEE Countries

NBS: Indebtedness of Slovak Households among Highest in CEE Countries

Bratislava, November 28 (TASR) – The indebtedness of Slovak households is among the highest within the central and eastern Europe region, as the number of loans provided to Slovak households continued to grow in the first three quarters of 2017, going up by 13.6 percent year-on-year, TASR learnt on Tuesday.

Chrenek: Slovakia Is Important Part of Europe

Chrenek: Slovakia Is Important Part of Europe

Bratislava, November 28 (TASR) – Differing views on the further development of the European Union (EU), criticism, but also positive features concerning the Union’s policies overwhelmed an HNClub Europe at Crossroads event organised by Hospodarske Noviny daily on Tuesday. “I think it was a very good discussion on specific issues,

URSO: Electricity Prices for Households to Go Up 2.71 Percent Next Year

URSO: Electricity Prices for Households to Go Up 2.71 Percent Next Year

Bratislava, November 28 (TASR) – Electricity prices for household end-users will go up 2.71 percent year-on-year on average as of January 1, 2018, head of the Office for Regulation of Network Industries (URSO) Lubomir Jahnatek told TASR on Tuesday. The gas price for households will increase by 0.38 percent