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Fico: Salaries of Constitutional Officials to Go up €1 as of Next Year

Fico: Salaries of Constitutional Officials to Go up €1 as of Next Year

Bratislava, December 5 (TASR) – Salaries of constitutional officials will go up €1 as of January 2018 and Parliament will resolve their unfreezing through an amending proposal to any other law, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) said following a meeting of coalition caucuses in Parliament on Tuesday. “There is a clear

Analysts: Households and Investments Pulled Slovak GDP Up in 3Q17

Analysts: Households and Investments Pulled Slovak GDP Up in 3Q17

Bratislava, December 5 (TASR) – Not only households, but also investments pulled Slovakia’s economy up in the third quarter of 2017, UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia analyst Lubomir Korsnak stated on Tuesday. Domestic demand in 3Q17 was bolstered by all components except for government consumption, which was down by

Chovanec: RIA 2020 Strategy to Neaten Legislative Setting for Business

Chovanec: RIA 2020 Strategy to Neaten Legislative Setting for Business

Bratislava, December 1 (TASR) – The Economy Ministry’s RIA 2020 regulatory strategy, due to be dealt with by the Government in January, should arrange more efficiently the legislative framework for business, Economy Ministry State Secretary Rastislav Chovanec said at a seminar at the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Bratislava

Bugar: Threatening MPs with Fall of Government Not Good Way to Go

Bugar: Threatening MPs with Fall of Government Not Good Way to Go

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – Threatening MPs with the fall of the Government if they don’t support a salary freeze for constitutional officials isn’t a good way to tackle the entire issue, as it creates unnecessary tension, stated Parliamentary Vice-chairman and coalition Most-Hid party head Bela Bugar on Wednesday.

SaS: Fico Mistaking Parliamentary Democracy with Dictatorship

SaS: Fico Mistaking Parliamentary Democracy with Dictatorship

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – The Government emerged from the will of Parliament and not from the will of Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD), and so it’s completely against the rules of political culture to force MPs to vote in a particular way on a matter that exclusively concerns Parliament

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