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On 18 June President Vaclav Klaus named the current vice-president of the Czech National Bank (CNB), Miroslav Singer, as its new president. The taking on of the role of president of the CNB by a person sharing the economic views of the…
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| Mateusz Gniazdowski
The ruling party Smer has won the election but the government will be established by the centre-right. The change in power will improve the atmosphere in Slovak-Hungarian relations.
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President Vaclav Klaus on 4 June entrusted the leader of the right-wing Civic Democratic Party (ODS) Petr Necas with the government forming mission. ODS leader is engaged in negotiations preceding the formation of a government coalition…
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| Jakub Groszkowski
The large number of possible post-electoral configurations will make negotiations on the formation of the government more difficult. Talks will probably be protracted and offer an opportunity for President Vaclav Klaus to be actively…
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On 22 May, the right-wing coalition Fidesz-KDNP, which won a constitutional majority in the April elections, presented a programme of the new government led by Viktor Orban. No clear concept for resolving the country’s key problems was…
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| Mateusz Gniazdowski, Jakub Groszkowski
Amendments made to Hungarian law sparks strong opposition from Slovakia. The introduction of the new provisions will however have wider repercussions.
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On 12 May the Slovak Statistical Office announced that in the first quarter of 2010 the Slovak GDP has increased by 4.5% year on year, which probably constitutes the best result in the EU (Poland has not yet revealed its quarterly…
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On 8 May, the eurozone member states granted Greece a three-year loan of 80 billion euros aimed at stabilising the country’s public finances. This decision has raised strong controversies in new members of the euro group, Slovakia and…