FRENCH Ambassador to Slovakia Didier Lopinot thanked Slovaks for taking part in three spontaneous gatherings in front of the French Embassy in Bratislava after the terrorist attacks in Paris in early January.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL Court will deal with the amendment to the law on income tax, after a group of MPs submitted a motion. The deputies dislike the duration of depreciations of non-productive real estates which increased from 20 to 40 years.
FORMER mayor of Košice František Knapík will probably face the Specialised Criminal Court soon for alleged machinations with the public procurements which took place during the time he was in office.
The Slovak Republic has set guidance of 60bp area over mid-swaps on a new 12-year euro-denominated benchmark bond, according to a lead. The issuer, rated A2/A/A+ by Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch, has now opened books on the Reg S only transaction.
THE DEFENCE Ministry is planning to have its defence strategy updated due to the current security situation and the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, Slovak Defence Minister Martin Glváč told the TASR newswire on January 12.
THE INDUSTRIAL Production Index (IPP) in Slovakia went down by 3.3 percent year-on-year in November. The figures are disappointing, according to UniCredit Bank Czech Republic and Slovakia analyst Ľubomír Koršňák, the TASR newswire reported.
ENERGY, the fight against tax evasion and water issues may well be among the priorities of Slovakia’s 2016 EU presidency, according to Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák, the TASR newswire reported on January 12.
“I am Charlie and we are all France,” wrote Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, today (12 January 2015) in the book of condolences in the premises of the Embassy of the French Republic in Bratislava.
