Slovakia - Factors To Watch on April 23

                                
 BRATISLAVA, April 23 (Reuters) - Here are news stories,
press reports and events to watch which may affect Slovak
financial markets on Wednesday.
                                
 
                                
 GOVERNMENT MEETING
                                
 The government will hold its regular weekly meeting, 0800
GMT.
                                
 
                                
 POLITICS MAY TRUMP INFLATION IN SLOVAKS' EURO BID
                                
 The European Union is likely to let Slovakia adopt the euro
currency in 2009, even though  policymakers fear that inflation
there will soon jump above the qualifying limit for joining the
euro zone.
                                
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 CROWN EURO ENTRY RATE SEEN AT 32.5 PER EURO
                                
 Slovakia will revalue its crown peg and convert the currency
to the euro at the rate of 32.50, a Reuters poll showed on
Tuesday.
                                
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 C.BANK CHIEF SAYS INFLATION WILL STAY LOW
                                
 Slovak inflation will stay below the threshold for euro
adoption both this year and in 2009 as the same factors are
driving prices up across the European Union, central bank
Governor Ivan Sramko said on Tuesday.
                                
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 C.BANK DRAINS SKK 143.5 BLN IN REPO TENDER
                                
 The Slovak central bank (NBS) accepted all bids in its
regular two-week repo tender on Tuesday, draining 143.512
billion crowns ($7.02 billion) from the market, NBS data showed.
                                
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 PRESS DIGEST
                                
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 MORE LAND DISPUTES
                                
 Slovak opposition said Prime Minister Robert Fico could have
prevented land transfers in which the state lost hundreds of
millions of crowns. The opposition says Fico knew about the land
transfers well before he moved to dismiss Agriculture Minister
Miroslav Jurena last year.
                                
 Sme, page 1
                                
 
                                
 PRIVATE PENSION ROW
                                
 The pension funds continue to clash with the social affairs
ministry over the fate of the private pension system. The
pension managers urged the ministry on Tuesday to withdraw an
information brochure because it contained misleading data about
pension fund yields.
                                
 Sme, page 6
                                
 
                                
 PES TO DEBATE MEDIA LAW
                                
 The Party of the European Socialists (PES), the EU's
umbrella organisation for left-wing factions, will meet on
Wednesday to debate the disputed Slovak media law.
                                
 Pravda, page 4
                                
 
                                
 PRICE MONITORING
                                
 The Statistics Office will monitor costs of more than 100
consumer goods from August until June 2009 to check price
developments before and after euro adoption. The Statistics
Office will publish the price lists every 10 days
                                
 Pravda, page 1
                                
 
                                
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vouch for their accuracy
                                
 
                                
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