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ISU: Cabinet Makes New Promises without Doing Earlier Homework

ISU: Cabinet Makes New Promises without Doing Earlier Homework

Bratislava, February 4 (TASR) – The Government is coming up with new promises while old commitments remain unfulfilled, Slovak Teachers Initiative (ISU) representatives told a press briefing on Thursday. The striking teachers pointed out that the Government has yet to deliver on a parliamentary resolution dated December 2012, whereby the Cabinet

SKOK: Radicova Didn't Bring Down Government, Sulik Should Apologise

SKOK: Radicova Didn't Bring Down Government, Sulik Should Apologise

Bratislava, February 4 (TASR) – Iveta Radicova’s centre-right government (2010-12) wasn’t brought down by Radicova in 2011, as Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) chairman Richard Sulik says, but by all representatives of the coalition of that time, said non-parliamentary SKOK party leader Juraj Miskov at a press conference on Thursday.

MVK Poll: Seven Parties in Parliament, SaS Outside

MVK Poll: Seven Parties in Parliament, SaS Outside

Bratislava, February 4 (TASR) – The latest public opinion poll carried out by MVK polling agency at the end of January shows that seven parties would have made it into parliament. A general election in Slovakia would have been won by the currently governing Smer-SD with 32.1 percent, which would

Education Ministry: Edunet_SK to Give Schools Virtual Private Network

Education Ministry: Edunet_SK to Give Schools Virtual Private Network

Bratislava, February 3 (TASR) – Edunet_SK doesn’t entail buying internet connection for schools; rather, the project will provide schools with a virtual private network (VPN) enabling connection even to the Education, Science, Research and Sport Ministry data centre, ministry spokesperson Beata Dupalova Ksenzsighova said Wednesday. Such a network architecture

Fico: Extraordinary House Session Would Bring only Squabbles

Fico: Extraordinary House Session Would Bring only Squabbles

Bratislava, February 3 (TASR) – An extraordinary session of Parliament concerning the situation in the healthcare and education wouldn’t bring any results, it would bring only squabbles, said Prime Minister Robert Fico at a press conference on Wednesday. “It won’t be possible to make any decisions there. It was

Ziga: Slovakia to Defend Ban on Water Exports at Court

Ziga: Slovakia to Defend Ban on Water Exports at Court

Bratislava, February 3 (TASR) – Slovakia will mount a thorough legal defence against the complaint of a Polish firm over the fact that since 2014 the Slovak Constitution has banned water exports abroad other than in consumer packaging and for humanitarian ends, Environment Minister Peter Ziga said after Cabinet on Wednesday.

Fico Urges Teachers to Resume Classes, Rules out Funding Decisions

Fico Urges Teachers to Resume Classes, Rules out Funding Decisions

Bratislava, February 3 (TASR) – According to Prime Minister Robert Fico, the time has come for teachers still on strike to go back to their pupils and students, TASR learnt at a press briefing in Bratislava on Wednesday. Fico was encapsulating what was presented as the final opinion of the Government