Economy

Brussels, November 28 (TASR-correspondent) – The Slovak Council of the EU Presidency has managed to secure a general agreement among member states to scrap trade barriers in internet commerce, said Economy Minister Peter Ziga at the Council of the EU for Competitiveness in Brussels on Monday. So-called “unjustified geo-blocking” on the

Bratislava, November 28 (TASR) – Slovak Environment Minister Laszlo Solymos and the World Bank’s Country Manager for Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia Antony Thompson in Bratislava on Monday signed an agreement of cooperation regarding Slovakia’s low-carbon strategy. This cooperation will result in a study of low-carbon growth in

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

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

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

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