Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Oct 1

...Slovakia expects to receive new information from Eurostat on 
recalculation of its fiscal data. 
     
    MONETARY REPORT 
    The central bank (NBS) will release a report on monetary 
developments in the first half of 2007, 0900 GMT. 
     
    STATE BUDGET 
    The finance ministry will publish central state budget data 
for January-September, by 1000 GMT. 
     
    STATE BOND AUCTION 
    The Debt and Liquidity Management Agency will auction 
7-year, 4.9 percent state bonds on behalf of the finance 
ministry. 
     
    FINMIN ON HIGWAYS 
    The finance ministry is expected submit an analysis on the 
impact on the state budget of highway construction through 
private public partnership projects. 
     
    PM WITH AMBASSADORS 
    Prime Minister Robert Fico will meet Ambassadors of European 
Union member states. 
     
    PM SAYS EU POLITICS MAY DECIDE EURO ENTRY 
    Slovakia's euro adoption in 2009 is not certain even if it 
meets all economic conditions because political criteria could 
block the euro zone entry, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico 
said on Saturday. 
    [ID:nL29614016] [RTRS-POL-EUR-SK] 
     
    CADBURY MULLS 270 MLN-EURO PLANT IN SLOVAKIA-SOURCE 
    Slovakia is in talks with Britain's Cadbury Schweppes Plc 
 about construction of a new plant worth 270 million 
euros ($382 million), a Slovak government source told Reuters on 
Friday. 
    [ID:nL28893503] [RTRS-BEV-FOD-SK] 
     
    COURT ANNULS $37 MLN FINE AGAINST SLOVAK TELEKOM 
    A Slovak district court has annulled a fine of 885 million 
crowns ($37 million) imposed by the Antimonopoly Office on 
fixed-line phone operator Slovak Telekom, the competition 
watchdog said on Friday. 
    [ID:nL2853084] [RTRS-TEL-JUDIC-SK] 
     
    PPI BELOW FORECASTS IN AUG 
    Slovak producer prices fell by 0.2 percent month-on-month in 
August, putting annual growth of factory-gate costs at 0.5 
percent, the Slovak Statistics Office said on Friday. 
    [ID:nL28134916] [RTRS-MCE-ECI-SK] 
     
    PRESS DIGEST 
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    FICO SLAMS C.BANK GOVERNOR FOR PENSIONS 
    Prime Minister Robert Fico has indirectly accused Central 
Bank Governor Ivan Sramko of links to the private pension funds. 
Fuco said Sramko had more positive attitude towards the pension 
funds than him because the central bank head was responsible for 
granting their licences. 
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    EURO CLOUDS 
    Too many spending priorities, lax fiscal discipline and 
government policies are attacking Slovakia's chances to adopt 
the euro in 2009, said Jan Toth Chief Economist with ING Bank in 
Bratislava. 
    Pravda, page 1 
     
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