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Survey: Up to 25% of Slovaks Would Change Jobs If They Couldn't Use Home Office

Survey: Up to 25% of Slovaks Would Change Jobs If They Couldn't Use Home Office

Bratislava, May 28 (TASR) – As many as a quarter of Slovaks would change jobs if they lost the opportunity to work from home, but this would lower their chances of being hired by almost half of companies, according to a survey called ‘Hybrid Work Model as a New Standard’ conducted

Rybnicek: Towns and Villages Will Have to Consider Increasing Taxes and Fees

Rybnicek: Towns and Villages Will Have to Consider Increasing Taxes and Fees

Bratislava, May 25 (TASR) – Due to the Parliament-approved anti-inflation aid sponsored by the Finance Ministry, towns and municipalities will have to consider increasing property taxes, school and nursery fees or making decisions that will be unpopular among their inhabitants, TASR learnt from Slovak Towns Union (UMS) head and Trencin mayor

CoFoE: Galek: Three Years Should Suffice for Slovakia to Give Up Russian Oil

CoFoE: Galek: Three Years Should Suffice for Slovakia to Give Up Russian Oil

Bratislava, May 21 (TASR) – Slovakia is capable of replacing its oil supplier completely within three years, but this will require several investments and technological changes made not only to the Slovnaft oil refinery but also the Adria pipeline and emergency oil reservoirs in eastern Slovakia, Economy Ministry State Secretary Karol

Sulik: Hydrogen-powered Train Should Run in Slovakia by End of Electoral Term

Sulik: Hydrogen-powered Train Should Run in Slovakia by End of Electoral Term

Nitra, May 20 (TASR) – People in Slovakia will have an opportunity to take a ride on the first and only hydrogen-powered passenger train in the world, as presented to the professional and general public by a company called Alstom in cooperation with the French-Slovak Chamber of Commerce. “We can see

Gov't: Amounts of Tax Bonus and Child Allowance to Increase

Gov't: Amounts of Tax Bonus and Child Allowance to Increase

Bratislava, May 18 (TASR) – The amount of the tax bonus is expected to be increased to ensure higher net disposable income in households with children where at least one parent works, while the group of taxpayers claiming the tax bonus is to be expanded, according to the draft law on

Ivan Miklos to Be Member of Consultative Commission for Ukraine's Reconstruction

Ivan Miklos to Be Member of Consultative Commission for Ukraine's Reconstruction

Bratislava/Kiev, May 17 (TASR) – Former Slovak vice-premier and finance minister Ivan Miklos will be a member of the consultative commission at the National Council for the Reconstruction of Ukraine. “I was contacted by the office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the secretary of this commission, the chairman of the

Premier Calls for Independence from Supplies of Siberian Gas and Oil

Premier Calls for Independence from Supplies of Siberian Gas and Oil

Bratislava, May 12 (TASR) – There is only one way for Slovakia to break out of Russia’s energy trap, it must finally stop being dependent on Siberian gas and oil supplies, Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO) posted on a social network on Thursday. “For decades of Russian oil and gas