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SaS Founding Member and MP Mihal Exits Party

SaS Founding Member and MP Mihal Exits Party

Bratislava, February 20 (TASR) – Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party founding member and MP Jozef Mihal has decided to leave the party eight years after helping to get it off the ground, TASR learnt from the party’s spokesperson Katarina Svrcekova on Monday. “We understand his [Mihal’s] decision, because he

Ministry Has No Doubts about Transparency of Bratislava Bypass Project

Ministry Has No Doubts about Transparency of Bratislava Bypass Project

Bratislava, February 20 (TASR) – The Transport and Construction Ministry has no doubts regarding the transparency and quality of the Bratislava road bypass project as a whole, the ministry’s communications department told TASR on Monday. The ministry also pledged its “readiness at all times to answer all enquiries concerning this

Richter: Labour Inspections to Focus on Firms with Foreign Staff

Richter: Labour Inspections to Focus on Firms with Foreign Staff

Bratislava, February 20 (TASR) – The Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Ministry will pay more attention to companies with foreign staff in the wake of a recent report of a Serbian journalist who worked incognito for three months in allegedly dire conditions at the Samsung plant in Galanta (Trnava region)

Unemployment Rate Down to 8.64 percent in January

Unemployment Rate Down to 8.64 percent in January

Bratislava, February 20 (TASR) – The unemployment rate in Slovakia stood at 8.64 percent in January, down by 0.12 percentage points month-on-month and by 1.75 percentage points year-on-year, Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Centre (UPSVaR) general director Marian Valentovic reported at a press conference on Monday. The

Woman Who Made Threats Against Muslims Taken Into Custody

Woman Who Made Threats Against Muslims Taken Into Custody

Banska Bystrica, February 19 (TASR) – A Specialised Criminal Court judge in Banska Bystrica has partially accommodated the request by the Special Prosecutor’s Office to take a 24-year-old woman identified as Sheila Sz. of Ruzomberok (Zilina region) into custody, TASR learnt on Sunday. However, the judge allowed it only based

SaS Refutes Reports by Russian Media on its Alleged Support of Slexit

SaS Refutes Reports by Russian Media on its Alleged Support of Slexit

Bratislava, February 19 (TASR) – Opposition Freedom and Solidarity party (SaS) has objected to lies disseminated by some Russian media, who have stated that SaS supports the departure of Slovakia from the EU, or Slexit. “The Freedom and Solidarity party has never been in favour of Slovakia leaving the EU and

SaS and OLaNO Close to Reaching Cooperation Agreement for VUC Election

SaS and OLaNO Close to Reaching Cooperation Agreement for VUC Election

Bratislava, February 18 (TASR) – Opposition parties Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) and OLaNO-NOVA are in final stage of talks on mutual support for candidates in the upcoming regional election slated for autumn, TASR learnt on Saturday. Although the liberals of SaS claim that partial agreements on names have been clinched already,