Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Nov 16

...Prime Minister Robert Fico will address a foreign ministry 
conference on euro adoption. 
     
    HUNGARY FOREIGN MINISTER 
    Hungary's Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz visits Slovakia. 
     
    FX RESERVES 
    The central bank (NBS) will publish its weekly foreign 
currency reserves data, 1300 GMT. 
     
    SLOVAK INFLATION PICKS UP BUT EURO TARGET SEEN SAFE 
    Rising food costs pushed Slovak EU-norm inflation to a 
10-month high in October, well above market forecasts, but 
analysts saw no danger that the country will fail the prices 
test for adopting the euro in 2009. 
    [ID:nL1530626]        [RTRS-SK-CEN-MCE-ECI] 
     
    SLOVAK C.BANK SAYS OCT INFLATION ABOVE ITS FCAST 
    Slovak EU-norm inflation was above the central bank's (NBS) 
forecast in October mainly due to faster-than-expected increase 
in food prices, the NBS said on Thursday. 
    [ID:nPRG000591]        [RTRS-SK-CEN-MCE-ECI] 
     
    SLOVAK EURO SLIP MAY UNDERMINE ECONOMIC DISCIPLINE 
    An inflation spike has raised the risk Slovakia will miss 
its 2009 euro entry target, a slip that could undermine the 
economic discipline that has brought much-needed foreign 
investment and fund flows into the country. 
    [ID:nL15170025]        [RTRS-SK-FRX-MCE] 
     
    SLOVAK OFFICIAL QUITS, GOVERNMENT TENSION MAY EASE 
    A Slovak official accused by Prime Minister Robert Fico of 
improper conduct resigned on Thursday, a step that could ease 
tensions threatening to break up the three-party ruling 
coalition. 
    [ID:nL1557205]         [RTRS-SK-POL] 
     
    PRESS DIGEST 
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    COALITION TO MEET 
    Ruling coalition leaders will meet on Monday to calm a 
dispute over suspicious land transfers at the state land 
administrator. 
    Sme, page 1 
     
    HZDS WANTS LAND FUND CHIEF TO RESIGN 
    The HZDS party, a junior ruling coalition member, demands 
resignation of the whole leadership at the state land 
administrator including its chief, nominated by the Smer party 
of Prime Minister Robert Fico. 
    Hospodarske Noviny, page 3 
     
    HZDS NOMINANT ATTACKS SMER 
    An official at the state land administrator, nominated by 
the HZDS party, said the Smer party of Prime Minister Robert 
Fico has been cheaply buying lucrative land from people who got 
back land seized by the communist regime. 
    Sme, page 2 
     
    ENEL MAY RE-THINK SLOVAK INVESTMENTS 
    Italy's Enel , owner of Slovakia's dominant power 
maker SE, might re-think its investment plans in Slovakia due to 
new legislation, which introduces fees for electricity exports 
and gives the market regulator right to oversee auctions. 
    Sme, page 9 
     
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