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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

Cabinet Okays Strategy to Deal with Long-term Unemployed

Cabinet Okays Strategy to Deal with Long-term Unemployed

Bratislava, November 29 (TASR) – Inclusion of the long-term unemployed and a more targeted provision of social benefits are among the key points of a document on tackling poverty and social exclusion approved by the Cabinet on Wednesday. The Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Ministry, which drew up the paper,

NBS: Indebtedness of Slovak Households among Highest in CEE Countries

NBS: Indebtedness of Slovak Households among Highest in CEE Countries

Bratislava, November 28 (TASR) – The indebtedness of Slovak households is among the highest within the central and eastern Europe region, as the number of loans provided to Slovak households continued to grow in the first three quarters of 2017, going up by 13.6 percent year-on-year, TASR learnt on Tuesday.