Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Dec 13

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Monday.
                                
 
                                
 NOVEMBER INFLATION
                                
 The Statistics Office to publish November headline and core
inflation data. Analysts polled by Reuters expected consumer
prices to rise by 0.3 percent, putting the annual inflation rate
at 1.0 percent.
                                
 
                                
 COALITION MEETING
                                
 The leaders of the ruling coalition of Prime Minister Iveta
Radicova will meet to debate current political issues.
                                
 
                                
 FINMIN REJECTS EURO ZONE BONDS IDEA
                                
 Slovakia opposes the idea of issuing common euro zone bonds
in the future, something that is a clear step towards a fiscal
union, newspaper SME on Friday quoted Finance Minister Ivan
Miklos as saying.
                                
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 SLOVAKIA EASES SLOVAK-ONLY LAW, HALVES PENALTIES
                                
 Slovakia's parliament has curbed a language law introduced
by the previous government that stoked tension between Slovakia
and neighbouring Hungary and triggered protests by Slovak
ethnic-Hungarians.
                                
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 SLOVAKS HIKE GAS PRICES FOR HOUSEHOLDS BY 4.5 PCT
                                
 Slovakia's gas prices for households will rise, for the
first time in four years, by 4.47 percent in January due to the
weaker euro currency, the country's State Regulator (URSO) said
on Friday.
                                
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 OCT TRADE SUPLUS IN LINE WITH FORECASTS
                                
 Slovak foreign trade balance showed a surplus of 145.3
million euro ($191.8 million) in October, compared with a
revised 39.9 million euro surplus in September, the Statistics
Office data showed on Friday.
                                
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 ETHNIC HUNGARIANS ON COALITION ROW
                                
 The ethnic-Hungarian party Most-Hid warned its coalition
partner SDKU party of Prime Minister Iveta Radicova to back off
from accusing Most-Hid's deputies for supporting the coalition
in a vote of prosecutor general.
                                
 Sme, page 1
                                
 
                                
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