Slovakia - Factors To Watch on Sept 9

                                
 BRATISLAVA, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Here are news stories, press
reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak financial
markets on Thursday.
                                
 
                                
 QUESTION HOUR
                                
 Prime Minister Iveta Radicova and ministers will answers
deputies' queries during a regular 'question hour' in
parliament, 1200 GMT.
                                
 
                                
 OM RADICOVA ON EU MEETING AGENDA
                                
 Prime Minister Iveta Radicova will brief the parliament's
committee for Europan affairs on agenda and Slovak positions
ahead of the European Council meeting shceduled for Sept. 16.
                                
 
                                
 PARLIAMENT MEETING
                                
 The parliament will continue its regular monthly session,
but no major economic items are on agenda on Thursday.
                                
 
                                
 SLOVAKS SEE DEBT REFINANCING OF EUR 8 BLN IN 2011
                                
 Slovakia needs to refinance debt worth around 8 billion
euros ($10.20 billion) next year and fiscal tightening is needed
to create good market conditions for issuance, Finance Minister
Ivan Miklos on Wednesday.
                                
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 JULY OUTPUT RISES BELOW FORECASTS
                                
 Slovak industrial output rose by a less-than-expected 16.8
percent year-on-year in July, the Slovak Statistics Office said
on Wednesday, although the sector still grew for the ninth month
in a row.
                                
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 SULIK SURVIVES NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE
                                
 The Head of parliament Richard Sulik, who leads the Freedom
and Solidarity (SaS) party in the centre-right coalition of
Iveta Radicova, survived a no-confidence vote as expected on
Wednesday, as the opposition failed to reach a needed majority.
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http://www.sme.sk/c/5540656/sulika-neodvolali-sporili-sa-aj-o-utyranom-konovi.html
                                
 
                                
 SMER SAYS COULD RE-OPEN GREEK LOAN ISSUE
                                
 The strongest opposition party SMER, led by ex-Prime
Minister Robert Fico, said could re-open the issue of a rejected
816 million euros bilateral loan to Greece in the parliament,
ex-Finance Minister Jan Pociatek said.
                                
 Slovaks came under pressure from its EU' partners because of
country's July decision to torpedo its share within the overall
110 billion rescue package for debt-laden Athens.
                                
 Sme, page 6
                                
 
                                
 CAR SALES DOWN BY 20 PERCENT IN AUGUST
                                
 Car sales in Slovakia fell by almost 20 percent on the year
in August to 5,206 sold cars, the Association of Car Industry
said. Registration of new cars dropped by almost a third on the
year in the first eight months of the year.
                                
 Sme, page 6
                                
 
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