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Hungarian nationals' law set for international courts
The Deputy Foreign Minister Jaroslav Chlebo says Slovakia is ready to go the International Court in Strasbourg if the controversial Act on Hungarians living in neighbouring countries takes effect in its current form.Speaking at a press conference on November 6, Chlebo said that unless a compromise was reached on several clauses of the act Slovakia would make an international protest.Slovakia and Romania have both expressed concerns about the act which the Hungarian Parliament on June 19. The act aims to "ensure that Hungarians living in neighbouring countries form part of the Hungarian nation as a whole and to promote their well-being and awareness of national identity within their home country."
IMF says urgent reforms are needed
The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) report has criticised the pace of structural reforms in Slovakia.IMF representatives, who met with government officials on November 4, said the speed of reform must quicken.They also stressed the need to make the progress before the September 2002 elections.
1989 revolution yet to affect thinking
How fitting that November 17, the twelfth anniversary of the revolution that brought communism down in Czechoslovakia, was the date chosen for the election of a new boss for the former communist SDĽ party. Few other events could have captured so neatly the millstones which remain about the neck of social progress in Slovakia.The man who appeared likely to take the SDĽ leadership on the eve of the party's national congress was Agriculture Minister Pavol Koncoš, a slump-shouldered Goliath with the dynamism of a tree stump.While no one could really be worse than current SDĽ leader Jozef Migaš, who has unerringly steered his party from a 1998 election result of 14.3% through corruption scandals to low support in the single digits today, Koncoš at least invites the question of whether the SDĽ wouldn't be better off without a leader at all.
China beckons for 'green' Štiavnica
The central Slovak town Banská Štiavnica will be a finalist at the Nations in Bloom international environmental competition, also known as the 'Green Oscars', in Shenzhen November 29-December 3.Nations in Bloom awards communities around the world for exemplary environmental practices. Over 200 communities from 50 countries were involved this year. Banská Štiavnica heads to China as one of 41 finalists."The competition awards those who are really solving environmental issues: the local people. It's all very well for parliament to say 'we're going to make your city's air cleaner', but real people at local levels are going to make the changes," said Nations in Bloom's Alan Smith.
Review: Travolta triumphant in spy thriller
Hacker Stanley Jobson is fresh from an 18-month jail sentence for taking down the FBI's computer system. He will be sent back to prison if he is caught touching a computer. One day a beautiful woman appears at his trailer door offering him $100,000 to meet her employer. By the evening he is involved in one of the most glamorous and technologically-advanced heists in the history of the US, organised by a deranged terrorist or a fanatical anti-terrorist, he can't tell which.
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Getting your stuff to and from Slovakia
An American friend of mine has a small Slovak home full of goods from the US. Recently he recounted how he shipped them here in 1996. I had imagined an obstacle course full of customs pitfalls and shady middlemen, so I was surprised to learn how smooth, if frighteningly expensive, his experience had been.This friend has a three-child family, with mountains of clothes and sneakers, a monumental collection of books and a prized piano played by all the kids. He considered these items indispensable, as he did his computers and the children's bicycles.When he called a US shipping firm, he learned that the sheer volume of these goods required a 40-by-8-by-8-foot container (the next smallest was 20-by-4-by-8 feet), leaving him a world of additional space that he would have to pay for anyway. So he threw in couches and tables, stereos, carpets, pots and pans, gardening tools, and much more.
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