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Feature Photo SDKÚ Chairman Mikuláš Dzurinda has decided not to run for parliament in the June elections. The party's head since its founding in 2000, Dzurinda announced his withdrawl from the ballot in the wake of money laundering accusations. 8 Feb 2010 More Feature Photos
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Dzurinda won't lead SDKÚ into elections WHEN it seemed like Mikuláš Dzurinda had withstood swirling pleas for changes within the party he founded a decade ago and was again firmly set to lead his party into Slovakia’s June elections, the chairman of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) dropped a bombshell when he announced on February 2 that he was withdrawing his name from the party’s candidate list. 8 Feb 2010 Beata Balogová The Slovak Spectator More from Politics & Society
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EC once again raises its eyebrows SLOVAKIA wasn’t in much of a hurry to revamp a piece of legislation which has been a thorn in Brussels’ side since 2008 and which prompted the European Commission to put another letter of formal notice in writing to the government of Robert Fico in early January 2010. Despite the media placidly downplaying the urgency of the letter, Prime Minister Robert Fico did summon a special cabinet session for February 5 to extinguish the threat of the EC putting its finger on the EU funding vein to Slovakia. 8 Feb 2010 Beata Balogová The Slovak Spectator More from Business
Hungary to pay language fines Fund set up by Hungarian government meets with criticism in Slovakia THE HUNGARIAN government is still highly concerned about Slovakia’s amended State Language Act and its consequences for the Hungarian minority living in Slovakia. At least this is what one could assume from its recent decision to devote a chunk of its state resources to a fund to protect the linguistic rights of ethnic Hungarians living in Slovakia and, ultimately, to pay any fines levied for violation of the State Language Act. 8 Feb 2010 Michaela Stanková The Slovak Spectator More from Politics & Society
Good timing and bad timing EDITORIAL GOOD timing is everything, especially in politics. A speech or a bold initiative with perfect timing can smash political opponents, germinate new public enthusiasm or even move the masses. Bad timing can spoil the best of intentions and even turn once revolutionary ideas or leaders to pathos. 8 Feb 2010 Beata Balogová The Slovak Spectator More from Opinion
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Akože Slovak word of the week THIS HAS been the week of make-believe, of as-ifs, of pretending, in short, of "akože". PM Fico is "akože" appalled by the untransparent financing of the opposition SDKÚ, which two election periods ago used a bamboozling network of Swiss, British, and off-shore companies to pump money into the party and even now has trouble explaining where the cash was coming from. Yet in reality, Fico must be used to much worse since his own coalition can’t explain why hundreds of millions of euros from state contracts are ending up in shady firms with ties to coalition politicians. 8 Feb 2010 Lukáš Fila The Slovak Spectator More from Opinion
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Up In The Air Director: Jason Reitman Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick “TO KNOW me is to fly with me,” says Ryan Bingham during an early monologue in Jason Reitman’s Up In The Air, recently landed in Bratislava. But in the soulless land of airline lounges, air miles programmes, hotel bathrobes and mini-bar miniatures, there’s not much to know about anyone — such is the point being made by a film that is part condemnation and part advertisement for the slick international brands of American Airlines, Hilton and George Clooney. 8 Feb 2010 Howard Swains The Slovak Spectator More from Culture & Society
Be happy! -42 degrees in 1929 SKI WINDOW THE MONTH of February is usually the coldest month in the mountains and this year it will really be true. Recently, 50 centimetres of new snow fell in the mountains and temperatures plummeted to -20 degrees. This week in 1929 was the coldest week in recorded history when temperatures across Slovakia sank below -30 degrees and Vígľaš, near Zvolen, recorded a temperature of -42 on February 11, 1929. But for us, in 2010, a milder week is expected with mountain temperatures during the day between -6 and -2 degrees accompanied with more or less intense snowfall. 8 Feb 2010 By Roman Millan, www.lanovky.sk The Slovak Spectator More from Culture & Society
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