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Three Elite Junior Ice Hockey Players Sentenced for Match Fixing

Three Elite Junior Ice Hockey Players Sentenced for Match Fixing

Banska Bystrica, November 25 (TASR) – Three junior ice hockey premier league players on Friday received parole sentences for match fixing from the Specialised Criminal Court in Banska Bystrica. The three young players, who were among the leaders of elite team HC Kosice, allegedly last year attempted to manipulate the result

Police Investigate Series of Radioctive Letters as Terrorism

Police Investigate Series of Radioctive Letters as Terrorism

Bratislava, November 25 (TASR) – The police are investigating a series of five suspicious letters delivered to some courts, the Justice Ministry and Presov regional police directorate because at least three of them contained radioactive substances, Police Corps president Tibor Gaspar announced at a press conference on Friday. The first suspicious

Kazimir: Budget Based on Prognoses That Haven't Been Fabricated

Kazimir: Budget Based on Prognoses That Haven't Been Fabricated

Bratislava, November 25 (TASR) – Parliament has concluded a debate on the state budget for next year, with over 30 MPs taking the floor on the issue in three days. “I can describe the debate on the law of the year as professional, but we didn’t avoid some theatrical performances

Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee to Carry Out Probe at MFA

Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee to Carry Out Probe at MFA

Bratislava, November 25 (TASR) – MPs from the parliamentary foreign affairs committee have decided to carry out a probe at the Foreign and European Affairs Ministry at the end of a special session dedicated to the issue of allegedly overpriced cultural events linked to Slovakia’s Council of the EU Presidency.

NBS: 8-percent Deductions Won't Shake Insurers

NBS: 8-percent Deductions Won't Shake Insurers

Bratislava, November 24 (TASR) – The expansion of 8-percent state levies to cover all non-life insurance policies, due to concern only new contracts as of January 2017, won’t affect the stability of insurance companies, the Slovak central bank (NBS) stated on Thursday. Parliament earlier this week adopted a bill to

NBS: Profits of Slovak Banks to Fall in Next Few Years

NBS: Profits of Slovak Banks to Fall in Next Few Years

Bratislava, November 24 (TASR) – The Slovak financial sector has maintained its high resilience to external shocks, with all banks in Slovakia having enough of their own resources at their disposal and also meeting all capital criteria with comfortable margins, said the central bank’s (NBS) financial market supervision department director

Business Europe Figures Discuss Brexit, Trump and Economy with Kiska

Business Europe Figures Discuss Brexit, Trump and Economy with Kiska

Bratislava, November 24 (TASR) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska on Thursday received heads of European employers’ associations (Business Europe) to discuss chiefly the possible effects of Brexit on the European economy, US-EU relations after the American presidential election and the EU’s competitiveness, TASR learnt on the same day. According to