AN AVERAGE state tender took six months in 2014, the longest period in the past five years, according to the analysis by ethics watchdog Transparency International Slovensko (TIS) which it based on the Public Procurement Office Bulletin.
PARLIAMENT overrode the president’s veto and passed again the amendment to the Labour Code based on which the conditions for temporary employment will become stricter as of March.
PEOPLE are able to commute to work on trains with discounts of 50 percent as of February 1, according to the proposal passed by the government at its January 28 session. The bigger rail discounts for working people is part of a package of financial, economic and social measures.
ANOTHER 10 Slovaks have received the Righteous Among the Nations award, the highest honour given to a non-Jew by the State of Israel and Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum for saving Jewish citizens during the Holocaust.
Marta Wise was ill and emaciated when she heard the distant sound of soldiers marching toward Auschwitz. The 10-year-old Slovakian Jew assumed it was German troops coming to get her but once she saw the red stars on their uniforms she realized they were Russian.
CURRENT head of Slovakia’s dominant electricity producer Slovenské Elektrárne (SE) Luca D’Agnese ends at his post of the head of Enel group in eastern Europe. He will replace Luigi Ferraris, who resigned from the post of director for the Latin America region.
THE NATIONAL Bank of Slovakia (NBS), the country’s central bank, has revised its December prognosis, predicting higher economic growth and a zero increase in prices in 2015.
SAVERS in the second private pension pillar will be allowed to leave it, as it will open for three months from March 15 to June 15. This stems from the amendment to the law on pension savings passed by the government at its January 28 session.
THE AKTUALITY.sk website published a transcript of the controversial sermon of Greek Catholic priest Rastislav Baka which the regional Radio Regina refused to broadcast as it, in its opinion, violated the rules for broadcast before a referendum.
