Harabin: Miklos Lying, Auditors Can Come to Supreme Court
Bratislava, July 30 (TASR) - Finance Minister Ivan Miklos`s (SDKU-DS) claims that a ministry inspection was barred from carrying out an audit at the Supreme Court are untrue, Supreme Court Chairman Stefan Harabin said on Friday. » More

Miklos: Harabin Keeps FinMin Auditor Out of Court Premises
Bratislava, July 30 (TASR) - The Finance Ministry said on Friday it had been barred from carrying out an audit at the Supreme Court a day earlier after the court`s chairman (and former justice minister) Stefan Harabin deemed their letter of authorisation invalid. » More

Government: We Have to Tackle Troubles We`ve Inherited
Bratislava, July 29 (TASR) - The new Cabinet is trying to tackle many problems inherited from its predecessors, Government Office said in a statement in response to criticism expressed by former premier and chairman of currently the strongest opposition Smer-SD Robert Fico on Thursday. » More

Miklos: We Can Still Return to Discussion on Flat VAT Rate
Bratislava, July 30 (TASR) - Finance Minister Ivan Miklos (SDKU-DS) on Friday conceded that discussion on the flat VAT rate may take place as part of Government`s efforts to shore up the public finances even though such an initiative did not make it into the Government Manifesto. » More

Dzurinda: Coalition MPs Will Have Free Hands in Vote on Loan to Greece
Bratislava, July 30 (TASR) - The Coalition Agreement counts on cases in which individual MPs of the Coalition parties (SDKU-DS, Freedom and Solidarity/SaS, the Christian Democrats/KDH and Most-Hid) are not obliged to vote as a bloc, Foreign Affairs Minister Mikulas Dzurinda (SDKU-DS) said at a press conference on Friday. » More

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Hospodarske Noviny Daily on Friday, July 30
One of four MPs threatening to quit their Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) caucus after failing to have more of their demands put on the new Cabinet`s programme, vowed not to let Robert Fico`s administration return to power by their actions, Hospodarske noviny reports Igor Matovic as telling HNonline.sk readers Friday on its frontpage. » More

SME Daily on Friday, July 30
New Education Minister Eugen Jurzyca plans no changes in the law that`s supposed to teach children how to love their country, SME daily reports on page 1 and 2 on Friday. » More

Pravda Daily on Friday, July 30
Slovak primary producers such as farmers are fretting after the new government approved its four year programme on Wednesday as it includes repeal of the measures enacted by Robert Fico`s former administration to protect them from unfair trading practices of retail chains, Pravda daily wrote on page 11 on Friday. » More

Dzurinda Does About Turn on US Anti-missile Shield
Bratislava, July 30 (TASR) - Slovakia will support the American anti-missile defence programme in which the Czech Republic will take part, with Foreign Affairs Minister Mikulas Dzurinda seeing no problem with the programme if agreed upon jointly by the US, NATO and the Czech Republic. » More

Dzurinda: Radicova Should Meet Merkel in Berlin on August 25
Bratislava, July 30 (TASR) - Prime Minister Iveta Radicova should meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on August 25, Foreign Affairs Minister Mikulas Dzurinda announced at a press conference on Friday. » More

Dzurinda: European Commission Receives Slovakia`s Aid Request
Bratislava, July 30 (TASR) - The European Commission has already received Slovakia`s request to provide resources in order to alleviate the damages caused by floods in late May and early June. » More

SPP Doesn`t Have to Pay for Ducky`s Promissory Note
Bratislava, July 29 (TASR) - According to a ruling by Bratislava Regional Court on Tuesday, Slovak gas utility Slovensky Plynarensky Priemysel (SPP) won`t have to pay 1 billion Czech crowns to Bolzano Enterprised Ltd from the Virgin Islands based on one of the documents known as `Ducky`s promissory notes`. » More

Spisiak Choosing New Regional Police Directors in Kosice and Presov
Presov, July 28 (TASR) - Police Corps Regional Headquarters (KR PZ) director in Presov Frantisek Lesko will leave his post, Police Corps President Jaroslav Spisiak announced at KR PZ in Presov on Wednesday. » More

Jan Valo and Lubomir Abel to Become New Police Corps Vice-presidents
Bratislava, July 28 (TASR) - Based on a proposal submitted by Police Corps President Jaroslav Spisiak, Interior Minister Daniel Lipsic (Christian Democratic Movement/KDH) on Wednesday appointed Colonel Jan Valo as First Vice-president of the Police Corps as of September 1, 2010, and Colonel Lubomir Abel as a Vice-president with immediate effect. » More

President Offers Sympathy to Germany Over Victims of July 24 Tragedy
Bratislava, July 80 (TASR) - Slovakia`s President Ivan Gasparovic on Friday sent a telegram of condolence to his German counterpart Christian Wulff regarding the tragic event which occurred during the Love Parade music festival in Duisburg on July 24. » More

AI Urges Slovakia to Sign Convention on Cluster Munitions
Bratislava/London July 30 (TASR) - Amnesty International urged Slovakia`s government on Friday to quickly sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions, signed by 107 countries since December 2008, which enters into force on Sunday (August 1). » More

Extremists and Their Opponents Likely to Clash in Bratislava in Early August
Bratislava, July 28 (TASR) - A civil activist has announced that a protest rally against what he calls neo-Nazi lies, violence and propaganda will take place on August 7 in Bratislava, and some 200 people are expected to attend. » More

Government to Crack Down on University Fraud and Abuses
Bratislava, July 29 (TASR) - The Government promises in its Manifesto to take strident action against the fraud and abuses that have become embedded in Slovakia`s university education system not only on a individual, but also on institutional basis. » More

Abrhan: Culture Ministry`s Turn Now to Act on Press Act, Licence Fees
Bratislava, July 12 (TASR) - It`s now up to the Culture Ministry to undertake measures to be included in an amendment to the Press Act and an introduction of fixed payments to state-run media instead of the current practice of licence fees, head of the Parliament`s media committee Pavol Abrhan (Christian Democrats/KDH) told TASR on Monday. » More

Pilgrimage in Nitra Marks Saints Cyril and Methodius National Holiday
Nitra, July 5 (TASR) - Believers from all over Slovakia came to Nitra on Monday, the Day of Saints Cyril and Methodius and a national holiday in Slovakia, to pray at sites visited by the two saints more than 11 centuries ago. » More