In Slovakia, there is a bill restricting landowners’ property rights on the table. Like elsewhere in the EU, we are also worried about our food. Foreigners, however, are the least of a problem for the Slovak agriculture.
On May 1, 2014, the...
April 15, 2014 11:01 am / 1 comment
Ever since the start of the financial crisis, Slovakia has been having serious problems with the sustainability of its public finances. Public revenues have been falling down or stagnating, but public expenses have continued to rise. As a result,...
October 29, 2013 12:17 pm / 113 comments
Slovak social system consists of several parts. Its main goal is to provide benefits and pensions to retirees, poor people with no or very small income, handicapped and families. Family benefits take more than EUR 740 million out of the state...
November 21, 2012 1:39 am / no comments
A position paper on solving the Roma question compiled by the Slovak liberal party Sloboda a Solidarita (SaS), represented by Lucia Nicholson, MP
SaS (Freedom and Solidarity) introduced a group of measures to solve the Roma question. „No government...
October 22, 2012 2:55 pm / no comments
Finally we are sending ESM our money. Spain is waiting for a miracle. Greeks saved money for karts. Iranians made a bomb – inflationary bomb! Similar bomb is predicted by FED’s models.
So we finally have it. After months of negotiations,...
October 15, 2012 6:31 pm / 6 comments
Spanish economy is now producing nothing else but promises. Why to lock trash bins and how many policemen are needed against one disabled person? IMF against the EU, the EU against the core and China against the FED.
All the eyes have been...
October 8, 2012 7:38 pm / 18 comments
While some of new regulations can be easily overlooked by a common mortal, there is a group of them that strikes almost every citizen. This is clearly the case of a new regulation of technical inspections of automobiles coming out of the Brussels...
September 10, 2012 11:36 am / 2 comments
In Spain it will be hot after the summer. Judgment day will be on September 12. Did you sell grandfather’s gold teeth in Italy? We are treating depression by delivering news about bad situation our neighbours are in.
The heat is slowing down...
September 7, 2012 9:03 am / 371 comments
Bouncer Ottmar Issing. ECB once again kept Greece in the game. Will the next five-year plan be merrier?
Briefly today. Pandas are on holidays and without Angela Merkel who is having a rest and German Minister of Finance, Wolfgang Schauble, not...
August 16, 2012 12:00 pm / 1 comment
During the past decade Slovakia used to be called a tiger in the middle of Europe. We have earned this nickname because we implemented transparent tax system with lower rates which in combination with relatively cheap labor attracted many large...
August 8, 2012 11:12 am / no comments