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Slovakia 24/7 - News in English

Slovakia 24/7 - News in English

Bratislava, November 10 (TABLET.TV) – Watch our digest of the week’s news with Mark Christensen called Slovakia 24/7, today featuring: * Slovak Regional Elections See Higher Turnout * Voters Reject Extremism * Smer-SD Does Worse than Expected * First Woman Governor Elected * Few Cases of Election Fraud Reported * TASR Announces Student Scholarship

Analysts: Energy Pulled Up Slovak Industrial Output in September

Analysts: Energy Pulled Up Slovak Industrial Output in September

Bratislava, November 10 (TASR) – Industrial production in Slovakia recorded year-on-year growth of 2.3 percent in September 2017, influenced primarily by growth of 9.7 percent in electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supplies and of 1.8 percent in industrial manufacturing, the Statistics Office announced on Friday. Meanwhile, a contraction

Fico: No Reason to Hold Smer Vice-chairs Accountable for Regional Elections

Fico: No Reason to Hold Smer Vice-chairs Accountable for Regional Elections

Bratislava, November 10 (TASR) – Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) would like to have seen his party with more governors and regional councillors following the elections last week, but he noted the result was due to the majority electoral system and hardly anything could be done about it. At the same

INTERVIEW: Michael HJORTH & Hans ROSENFELDT, Famous Swedish Novelists and Screenwriters

INTERVIEW: Michael HJORTH & Hans ROSENFELDT, Famous Swedish Novelists and Screenwriters

Bratislava, November 9 (TABLET.TV) – The Bratislava Book Fair 2017 is taking place in the capital city of Slovakia from November 9 to November 12. After last years’ successful visit of the Nordic Crime author Samuel Bjork from Norway, the Book Fair will be visited by another popular detective authors.

TIS: Despite Progress Slovakia Still Failing to Catch 'Big Fish' for Corruption

TIS: Despite Progress Slovakia Still Failing to Catch 'Big Fish' for Corruption

Bratislava, November 10 (TASR) – Over the past three years Slovakia has seen only a tiny improvement in terms of successfully prosecuting corruption at the highest levels, according to an analysis carried out by Transparency International Slovakia (TIS), which presented the results on Friday. According to the analysis, which examined developments

Stats Office: Average Salary Up in Most Sectors in September 2017

Stats Office: Average Salary Up in Most Sectors in September 2017

Bratislava, November 10 (TASR) – The average nominal monthly salary posted the highest annual rise in September in retail – by 7.2 percent to €674, the Slovak Statistics Office announced on Friday. Other nominal salary increases were: in restaurants and pubs – by 6.9 percent to €432, in transport and warehousing

Poliacik on Leaving SaS: I Can't Identify with SaS's Current Direction

Poliacik on Leaving SaS: I Can't Identify with SaS's Current Direction

Bratislava, November 9 (TASR) – Leader of the Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party Richard Sulik is a good man and this party has been writing a successful story, but despite these advantages I can’t identify with the current direction of the party anymore, so I’m leaving it, stated MP