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Five banks fund European highway links for 2005
A new Slovak highway system stretching from Bratislava to Budapest, Ukraine and the High Tatras, and linking Žilina with Warsaw will be in place by 2005, the Slovak Ministry of Transportation says.According to the ministry's spokesman Emil Picha, the matrix is the fruit of an agreement reached last year between Slovakia and the European Union to connect the country with four of Europe's nine main transport corridors. The plan is part of a larger one which envisages Slovakia as a transport axis between Berlin and Istanbul; Trieste, Italy and Lvov, Ukraine; Gdansk, Poland down through Žilina; and points on the Danube River -regarded as the fourth "Slovak" transport corridor.
Around Slovakia
Police uncover 13 tons of poisonSlovak diplomat's house burned down38 compete in Sherpa RallyNew Christmas record unveiledRuthenian revival is facing collapse
13 Slovak firms in region's top 100
A recent study of the 100 largest companies in central and eastern Europe shows 13 Slovak corporations making the grade, highlighted by VSŽ Košice's leap into the top 10 for the first time.The research, conducted by the international accounting and consulting firm Deloitte & Touche (D&T) Central Europe, places Slovakia third in the region in terms of the number of companies in the top 100, trailing only Poland (37 companies) and the Czech Republic (18 firms), and ahead of southern neighbor Hungary (12).One analyst attributed the density of Slovak companies on the list to the country's concentration of firms in heavy industries.
Tug sinks, eight killed
A Slovak tugboat negotiating its way in record flood-swollen waters of the Danube River capsized at an electric power plant near Vienna on October 23, killing eight Slovak crew members, Austrian rescue service officials and eyewitnesses said. A ninth Slovak crew hand, 46-year-old Emil Simek, was rescued by an Austrian boat after he jumped from the listing vessel. The accident occurred as the tugboat, a Slovak-registered vessel named "Ďumbier," was pulling a barge with a 750-ton load down the Danube, a river with a menacing current that had risen to its highest level in 40 years from record rainfall in Germany and Austria. The boat missed the passage into the shipping channel and banged into the sluice, causing it to jacknife with the barge it was pushing. The river's whipping current then carried it downstream and pinned it against a water-regulating weir, where it was sucked down by the river's force.
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- Convicted of multiple murders, Slovakia’s mafia boss seeks release from prison
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- News digest: Prosecutor seeks jail for NBS Governor Kažimír as his political support wanes
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- A mayor resigns over €2.7 million fraud scandal at town hall
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- Fico praises China and Vietnam as models, says liberal democracy has failed
- News digest: Violent gang in Bratislava is under arrest
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- The law changed. Our family papers were ready. Now my kids are Slovak citizens
- News digest: Prosecutor seeks jail for NBS Governor Kažimír as his political support wanes
- Slovakia loses another EV model to Spain as Stellantis chooses Zaragoza over Trnava
- Slovak female triathlete shatters barriers with historic win at Himalayan event
- Weekend: Celebration of fun comes to Malacky Photo
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