The most expensive diesel in the world
11. 01. 2010 | Richard Sulík
The new government coalition, created after the next election, will have to get the lowering of the excise tax into parliament as fast as possible. These are the words of our Prime Minister Robert Fico from May 16 th 2006, so roughly two months before he became PM. A lot...
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We have 315 thousand signatures
28. 12. 2009 | Richard Sulík
That is 90 percent of the amount required to request the president to call a referendum in accordance with article 95 of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic. We are therefore still hard at work and are hoping to have the required amount (350 thousand) collected by...
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Direct Democracy
14. 12. 2009 | Richard Sulík
Although Slovakia is a representative democracy, which means that people elect MPs and those make decisions for them, our constitution also includes one tool of direct democracy, and that is the referendum. In a referendum voters can express their opinion on an issue...
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Fico in isolation
30. 11. 2009 | Richard Sulík
What began as a step bordering on ridiculousness is beginning to look serious today. In November 2008, when I announced the creation of Sloboda a Solidarita, I also excluded the possibility of any future cooperation with Smer, the originator of an unprecedented economic and...
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SNS wants to promote patriotism
16. 11. 2009 | Richard Sulík
Let me first mention, in my defense, that I am certainly a bigger patriot than a regular thief from the SNS. After ten years in exile I came back in to this, my own, country and despite all its negatives I like living here. A really long time ago, let's say in the mid-90s,...
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Nonsense of the year
02. 11. 2009 | Richard Sulík
Where are those days, when our ministers and the Prime Minister would tap each other on their backs about how well they run this state while not doing anything in reality? The Prime Minister would blabber about the building of a welfare state, the retired got alms for...
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What will be left after Fico
19. 10. 2009 | Richard Sulík
Tomorrow it will be exactly a year to the day, since I wrote, at this same spot, that to estimate a 6.5% economic growth in October 2008 is nothing more than wishful thinking. As we already know today, the estimated growth turned out to be a decline of a similar...
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Why the SaS will stand for election alone
05. 10. 2009 | Richard Sulík
Daniel Lipšic’s initiative towards a closer cooperation of right-wing parties is a clever step. The forms of such cooperation can be numerous, from issuing common statements, through the common presentation of various proposals up to an electoral coalition, or the creation...
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Who would then vote for Fico?
21. 09. 2009 | Richard Sulík
The main characteristic of a democracy is the absolute equality of votes. Whether it is a well-educated person, who helps financing the state through taxes, or an illiterate who lives his whole life on benefits, everybody has exactly one vote. As nice as this principle is, it...
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Our honoured fellow citizens
07. 09. 2009 | Richard Sulík
Out of roughly 400 thousand Roma living in Slovakia about 250 thousand is more-less integrated into the society and they do not constitute any dramatic societal problems. The problem is the remaining 150 thousand Roma that live in roughly 620 settlements and isolated...
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Be more cultivated at stealing
24. 08. 2009 | Richard Sulík
By firing two Ministers of Environmental Affairs, Prime Minister Fico politely told their mother party, the SNS: “Boys, steal less and most of all be more cultivated at stealing, otherwise you will bring us all down”. However, the Greatest Slovaks did not understand this...
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Leader of Pospolitosť Kotleba is the hero of the day
10. 08. 2009 | Richard Sulík
Saturday’s coverage of the events in Šarišské Michaľany was scarily reminiscent of the scenes we saw at the candle demonstration in 1988 with the difference being the colour of the water cannon and the fact that the policemen looked like they belonged in a sci-fi movie....
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Millions for Slovak Television
27. 07. 2009 | Richard Sulík
When we started a petition to abolish license fees at the beginning of last year and suggested a financing directly from the government budget, the main counterargument was that the independence of public media might be threatened. It does sound funny, and I assume that no...
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We will not be saving at the expense of the people
13. 07. 2009 | Richard Sulík
This is how our Prime Minister several times answered the question of what measures he will take to tackle the crisis. No matter what happens during the crisis, he will not be saving money at the expense of the people. It does sound really pretty at first, the fighter for...
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The voice of the people
29. 06. 2009 | Richard Sulík
The numbers of MPs are distorted by rounding up and the five percent quorum, so let us try and look at the results of elections through calculations of all the cast and valid votes. In the 2006 parliamentary elections 945 thousand people voted for parties, which can be...
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Dark times ahead for Slota
15. 06. 2009 | Richard Sulík
When I recently saw the biggest Slovak get out of a Fabia, I knew something was wrong. For years and years Ján Slota did whatever he wanted, there was not a force in this country that could at least limit him a little bit. Slota fought against Hungarians and he fought on the...
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A coalition with Smer
01. 06. 2009 | Richard Sulík
Yesterday, on STV1, the program 5 minutes to 12 saw two old acquaintances meet again, Mikuláš Dzurinda and Vladimír Mečiar. At the end of the show Mečiar asked: “When you are in coalition with Smer, what will your relationship to the SMK be?” Do you think Dzurinda...
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Fico: Our estimates were significantly worse
18. 05. 2009 | Richard Sulík
Well look at that. So Fico’s estimates were much worse than the minus 5.4% which were presented on Friday by the Statistical Office. Maybe that’s why he let the figure plus 6.5% be written down in the budget, which already then everybody new was only wishful thinking. And...
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Fico: May Day celebrations have to be a prerogative...
04. 05. 2009 | Richard Sulík
I am trying to figure out why Fico is so attached to those May Day celebrations and I finally got it: you do not work on the first of May. It is a worker’s day, but people do not work, and that is our Prime Minister’s life motto: not to work. I do not mean hiding in...
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Fico: If the crisis defeats us it will be...
20. 04. 2009 | Richard Sulík
Fico: If the crisis defeats us it will be an honest fight. No, Mr. Fico. If the crisis beats you, it will be one thing and one thing only: just. You spent two years collecting praise for someone else’s success, when you presented the achievements resulting from reforms...
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