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New Gov't Wants to End Megacasino Project by Restoring Legislation
Wednesday 14 July 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, July 14 (TASR) - The new Government wants to restore legislation that was changed by the previous Government to allow for a megacasino project in Bratislava, said Agriculture Minister Zsolt (Most-Hid) Simon after the government session on Wednesday.
"We don't support the megacasino in the form in which the previous Government prepared it in terms of legislation and we think that we should get back to the previous (legislation)," said Simon.
Finance Minister Ivan Miklos (SDKU-DS) criticised the laws passed under the previous Government for the degressive margin created, which would mean that the bigger a casino is the less it would have to pay into state coffers. "I don't know what motivated the former government to do this - whether it was the megacasino project or something else, but our definite stance is that we view it as bad, even absurd that the biggest one would pay the least," stressed Miklos.
Interior Minister Daniel Lipsic (Christian Democrats/KDH) thinks he knows what led Robert Fico's government to change the given laws. "In my opinion, this was an amendment that was made for groups lobbying for the megacasino. This is completely evident," he said. He views the whole project as "folly", arguing that it would lead to more crime, drugs, disrupted families and bankruptcies.
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