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UPSVaR: 3.23 percent of Slovakia's Population Reliant on State Welfare

UPSVaR: 3.23 percent of Slovakia's Population Reliant on State Welfare

Bratislava, November 21 (TASR) – The number of people reliant on social benefits in Slovakia fell by around 20,000 on a yearly basis and by approximately 1,300 on the month to some 80,000 in October, according to statistics released by the Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Centre

Bratislava Won't Host EMA HQ; Finished Fourth in First Round of Vote

Bratislava Won't Host EMA HQ; Finished Fourth in First Round of Vote

Brussels/Bratislava, November 20 (TASR) – Bratislava has failed in its bid to host the prestigious European Medicines Agency (EMA), as it didn’t receive enough votes to progress to the second round of a secret ballot carried out at a General Affairs Council session in Brussels on Monday, TASR learnt

Hrnko: Sebej's Take on Foreign Policy Too Black-and-white, Russia No Villain

Hrnko: Sebej's Take on Foreign Policy Too Black-and-white, Russia No Villain

Bratislava, November 18 (TASR) – It was with considerable surprise that representatives of coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) learnt about negative statements by some political “apparatchiks” concerning parliamentary chair Andrej Danko’s (SNS) speech recently delivered at Russian State Duma, SNS vice-chair Anton Hrnko told TASR on Saturday. Hrnko was referring

SMK: Cooperation with OLaNO Open Question, Had One Meeting So Far

SMK: Cooperation with OLaNO Open Question, Had One Meeting So Far

Bratislava, November 18 (TASR) – Potential election cooperation between non-parliamentary ethnic-Hungarian SMK party and opposition OLaNO party is an open question at this stage, SMK chair Jozsef Menyhart told TASR on Saturday. According to Menyhart, everything will be decided in talks, with the compatibility of programmes and goals being the key

Matovic: Time Has Come to Offer Helping Hand to SMK Party

Matovic: Time Has Come to Offer Helping Hand to SMK Party

Bratislava, November 18 (TASR) – The time has come to extend a helping hand to (non-parliamentary) ethnic-Hungarian SMK party and, through the party, also to inhabitants of southern Slovakia [ethnic Hungarian region], opposition OLaNO leader Igor Matovic told TASR on Saturday. Earlier in the week, during the Dennik N discussion Matovic

Ministers Recall November 1989, Underline Importance of Freedom

Ministers Recall November 1989, Underline Importance of Freedom

Bratislava, November 17 (TASR) – Freedom is not to blame for the great number of problems Slovakia has gone through since 1989 and the problems still ahead, it’s rather the manner in which we put that freedom to use sometimes, thinks Justice Minister Lucia Zitnanska (Most-Hid). Along with her fellow

Slovakia 24/7 - News in English

Slovakia 24/7 - News in English

Bratislava, November 17 (TABLET.TV) – Watch our digest of the week’s news with Mark Christensen called Slovakia 24/7, today featuring: * First Trial Freight Train from China Arrives in Bratislava * All Smer Vice-chairs Offer Resignations * Progressive Slovakia to Be Registered as Party * New Project for Supporting Local Producers * Amazon