Archive of articles - February 2002, page 4

Cabinet approves Hungarian strategy

Bronze Age in Košice

VW looking to another Slovak plant

GROWING production figures, new models and the near completion of an industrial park characterise the past year for Volkswagen Slovakia as the firm looks set to announce plans to open a new facility in the north of the country.VW is Slovakia's largest industrial concern and a cornerstone of export income. The company plans to increase its overall output this year to over 200,000 vehicles after production stagnated in 2001.VW produced nearly 182,000 vehicles last year, about 800 more than in 2000 but still beating projections it had made at the beginning of the year. In addition, 331,000 transmissions and 16.7 million components were built.

Verheugen supports Nato 'big bang'

Drukos set to double premiums

Crown strengthens on Mikloš vote

Police probe Al-Qaida arms links

POLICE have begun an investigation into reports that a Russian arms dealer with known Slovak contacts supplied the Al-Qaida terrorist network with much of its weapons.Police corps vice-president Jaroslav Spišiak said that his office had received information in mid-February that Russian ex-KGB agent Victor Bout had been supplying military equipment to the terror group believed to be behind the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US.Similar reports were published in the British press February 16-17, citing sources within the British MI6 secret service.

Reader feedback: Church statements absurd

KDH still hot on Slovak sovereignty

Pension reform inches ahead

Top Pick: Bottoms up: Women from an ant's eye perspective

"Never shoot a picture from too much of a bottom-up perspective, otherwise you end up with a unaesthetic view of someone's nostrils."So reads a guideline in a manual for photographers, teaching them the mistakes to avoid in order to take good portrait pictures. Painter Dorota Sadovská also learned the rule, but unlike her peers was immediately consumed by the potential of the idea. What, she asked, would portraits from such viewpoints look like?

Reader feedback: VSŽ sale a surprise?

Angry BMG Invest clients meet

Slovakia - isn't that in Yugoslavia?

It's A FAMILIAR scenario - you're at a dinner party. Someone asks you "So what brings you here?". You launch into the well-rehearsed script, "Well, I've actually got links with Slovakia." "Oh really?! How fascinating!" "Yes, my mother's from the capital Bratislava, my father's from England and I've got dual nationality".There - job done. And then come those fateful words... "Hmm... Slovakia - is that Yugoslavia?"Now those of you who, like me, are proud of your links with Slovakia - whether it's as a result of your heritage, friendships or the work you have done there - this response from people is, at best, likely to irritate you and at worst break your heart.

Flapping their gums: Politicians wasting precious EU time

WATCHING Bratislava and Budapest jaw at each other across the Danube over a provocative status law for Hungarians living abroad has been entertaining, to say the least. But it's also been frustrating, for with many laws to be passed in both capitals if Slovakia and Hungary are to make it into the European Union by 2004, one feels like asking: Don't you guys have work to do?The Slovak government and parliament are falling badly behind in their EU-related tasks, and continue to waste far too much time on fruitless political sparring.

Paper makers pay up

Reader feedback: Americans no better than Slovaks with the bottle

Murder ordered over loan

Universities law approved