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FinMin: State Budget Surplus Up by 9.3 percent Y-o-Y in January

FinMin: State Budget Surplus Up by 9.3 percent Y-o-Y in January

Bratislava, February 1 (TASR) – The state budget’s incomes in January 2017 were €167.3 million (18.4 percent) higher year-on-year, the Finance Ministry announced on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the state expenditures were also up on an annual basis – by €83.5 million (9.3 percent). “The state budget thus posted

Pellegrini in Israel Signs Declaration to Cooperate in Digital Technologies

Pellegrini in Israel Signs Declaration to Cooperate in Digital Technologies

Jerusalem, February 1 (TASR correspondent) – Slovak Vice-premier for Investments and Informatisation Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) and Israeli Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel signed a joint declaration to cooperate in the field of digitisation for the public sector in Jerusalem on Wednesday. “With madam minister, we signed a declaration to cooperate in

Danko Wants to Remove Holjencik from URSO Chair Post via Resolution

Danko Wants to Remove Holjencik from URSO Chair Post via Resolution

Bratislava, January 31 (TASR) – Jozef Holjencik, the director of the Office for the Regulation of Network Industries (URSO), should render an account in the House for what he’s done, Parliamentary Chairman Andrej Danko (Slovak National Party/SNS) told a news conference held on Parliament’s premises on Tuesday. Danko

NBS Keeps Latest Outlook for 2017 Growth Unchanged at 3.1 percent

NBS Keeps Latest Outlook for 2017 Growth Unchanged at 3.1 percent

Bratislava, January 31 (TASR) – The Slovak economy is expected to grow by 3.1 percent this year before picking up momentum and posting growth of 4.2 percent next year and 4.6 percent in 2019, TASR learnt from the updated mid-term forecast that Slovakia’s central bank (NBS) released

Pellegrini: 2021 Might Be Year of Self-driving Cars

Pellegrini: 2021 Might Be Year of Self-driving Cars

Tel Aviv, January 31 (TASR-correspondent) – The year 2021 could be the year of fully autonomous cars operated by artificial intelligence, stated Slovak Vice-premier for Investments and Informatisation Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) in his speech at the global CyberTech 2017 conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. “Small countries have to be open

Presov Region Had Highest Share of People on Sick Leave in 2016

Presov Region Had Highest Share of People on Sick Leave in 2016

Bratislava, January 31 (TASR) – Slovakia’s richest region Bratislava had the lowest share of people taking sick leave on an average day last year (1.99 percent), while the country’s poorest region Presov was at the opposite end of the scale on 4.07 percent, TASR learnt from data

VsZP to Terminate Contracts with 120 Doctor's Surgeries

VsZP to Terminate Contracts with 120 Doctor's Surgeries

Bratislava, January 30 (TASR) – The state-owned health insurer VsZP is about to terminate contracts with around 120 doctor’s surgeries and several treatment facilities, TASR learnt from VsZP director Miroslav Kocan on Monday. The measures are part of the insurer’s shake-up programme in response to its estimated loss of