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Slovakia Facts
Slovakia is known for the Tatra Mountains
and the beautiful Danube.
Capital: Bratislava
Official language: Slovak
Currency: Euro
Passport and visa: A Finnish citizen needs a
passport or identity card as a travel document.
Time difference to Finland: -1
Agriculture
After the fall of communism in 1989, the
importance of agriculture to the Slovak economy has
diminished. Its share of gross domestic product (GDP)
has fallen from more than 10 percent in 1989 to just
over 3 percent in 2011. In the same year, the sector
employed almost 3 percent of the labor force. In 1990
the proportion was 12 percent.
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The country is largely self-sufficient on many basic
foods. The most important crops are wheat, barley, corn,
sugar beet, rye, oats and potatoes. On the slopes of the
Tatra Mountains in northern and central Slovakia, grapes
are grown and tobacco and fruit are produced in the
river Váh's valleys. Livestock breeding is also
significant.
Prior to 1989, agriculture was fully collectivized or
operated by cooperatives. After independence, virtually
the entire sector was privatized and in 1995 only a few
cooperatives remained. After EU accession in 2004,
agriculture was modernized, but the majority of the
country's farms are still small and can almost be
counted as horticulture. For Slovakia defense and
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Slovakia is one of Europe's most prosperous
countries. About 40 percent of the area is wooded. Like
the agricultural land, the forest has been privatized
since 1991. This has led to extensive harvesting in some
areas. In 2010, the forest industry accounted for less
than 1 percent of GDP.
FACTS - AGRICULTURE
Agriculture's share of GDP
3.0 percent (2018)
Percentage of land used for agriculture
39.2 percent (2016)
2020
February
Anti-corruption party wins the election
February 29th
The center-right party OL'aNO, which profiled itself as an anti-corruption
party, becomes the big winner of the election. OL'aNO more than doubles its
number of seats and occupies 53 of the 150 seats in Parliament. The Smer SD that
has ruled Slovakia for the past eight years loses more than ten seats and comes
in second place. The other parties that have been members of the last ruling
coalition - SNS, Bro and Nätverket / Siet '- are leaving Parliament. In split
third place comes the right-wing party SME Rodina and right-wing extremist L'SNS
who both strengthen their position and win 17 seats each. Liberal SaS, which
became the second largest in the 2016 election, goes back and comes in fourth
place with 13 seats. The newly formed For the people will be the fifth and last
party to pass the barrier. The people win 12 seats. The partial alliance
comprising President Zuzana Čaputová's Progressive Slovakia does not succeed in
entering Parliament. The alliance receives 6.96 percent of the vote. More than
900 votes are taken to pass the seven percent threshold for partial alliances.
Retirees and families with children are awaited before the election
February 25th
The right-wing extremist party L'SNS and two smaller parties help the ruling
Smer-SD get through the government's benefit package aimed at pensioners,
families with children and motorists. Pensioners must receive an extra pension
payment each year, the child allowance is doubled and tolls are removed for all
vehicles weighing less than 3.5 tonnes. The opposition is raging and calling the
government's proposal too corrupt given the parliamentary elections in a few
days.
January
The journalist's trainee appears
January 13
The trial of the four people suspected to be behind the murder of
investigative journalist Ján Kuciak 2018 begins with the professional soldier
Miroslav Marček admitting that it was he who held the gun and executed Kuciak
and Kuciak's fiancee. The main accused, the businessman Marián Kočner, who is
accused of ordering the murder via his interpreter Alena Zsuzsová, does not want
to comment. Kočner has previously denied that he would be a part of the plot.
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