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Slovakia gets silver medal; Russia gets gold
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At this year's IIFH Ice Hockey World Championship, Slovakia gets the silver medal. Slovakia lost the final game 2:6 to Russia on May 20.
20 May 2012
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SME - Stanislava Smadišová
Slovak GDP posts impressive growth
SLOVAKIA is now a small island of growth amid a European sea of stagnating economies. The eurozone as a whole posted zero growth for the first three months of this year but Slovakia’s economy grew during the same period at a rate of 3.1 percent year-on-year, a slight fall from the 3.4-percent growth recorded in the last quarter of 2011. Gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a brisk 0.8 percent from quarter to quarter, according to data released by the Slovak Statistics Office on May 15.
17 May 2012
Beata Balogová
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Parties agree to end MPs' immunity
MEMBERS of Slovakia’s parliament will no longer enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution after September 1, the day Slovakia celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption of its constitution – if the political parties in parliament stick to the commitment they announced to the public on May 16. After September 1 a member of parliament will be protected from prosecution only for statements made in official parliamentary forums and for his or her votes in parliament while “in everything else there will be equality in the face of the law”, stated MP Radoslav Procházka, a member of the special committee established to draft the constitutional change that will scrap the immunity currently enjoyed by MPs.
21 May 2012
Beata Balogová
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Radka Minarechová
Investing in tourism
ONE OF the first challenges for the government in the area of tourism will be setting new goals for the period 2013-2020 and preparing a strategy to accomplish them. Government officials, as well as businesses and tourism authorities, are suggesting several approaches that Slovakia could use to improve its tourism potential and attract more people to visit the country.
21 May 2012
Radka Minarechová
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One less perk of office
EDITORIAL
ONE of the oldest stories in the book of Slovak politics is now being retold once again. But this time it seems it might have a different, rather more satisfactory ending for the citizens of this country. Election campaigns always generate talk about withdrawing parliamentary deputies’ immunity from criminal prosecution, but somehow the promises and declarations never even get close to being enacted.
21 May 2012
Beata Balogová
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Škatuľa od topánok
Slovak Word of the Week
JESUS could turn water into wine. David can turn wine into cash. That’s just one of the jokes that popped up after the arrest of David Rath, a prominent Social Democrat in the Czech Republic, who was arrested with a shoe-box (škatuľa od topánok) filled with seven million Czech crowns (about €275,000).
17 May 2012
Lukáš Fila
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Rosaria Macri
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21 May 2012
Zuzana Vilikovská
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