Archive of articles - May 2002, page 2

SE profit halved in 1Q02

OECD: Slovakia must rein in spending

EU stats show Slovaks among worst paid

Corruption still bad in health, courts

Benelux-Visegrad meeting in Trenčín

SDĽ to stay in government

More highway money

Černák successor arrested

ST readies sale of Telemont assembler

Elections for September 20-21?

Bratislava gets second cinema multiplex

UNITED Cinemas International has completed another step in its central European expansion plans, acquiring Ster Century facilities throughout the region and opening Slovakia's largest and most modern cinema multiplex.As a joint venture between UCI Central Europe and the Argus media investment fund, the new 12-screen UCI Palace in Bratislava's Aupark shopping centre was opened on May 17. The opening followed UCI CE's acquisition of eight other central European multiplexes from Ster Century Cinemas earlier this year, including the eight-screen multiplex at Bratislava's Polus City Centre shopping mall.

Drunk police kill again

Police: Meeiar never testified

Returned mime leaves home - for good this time

ONE of Slovakia's foremost artists, mime Milan Sládek, has decided to emigrate from Slovakia a second time over what he alleges is poor treatment and inadequate funding by the Culture Ministry."Over the last four years, all attempts to build contacts with the Culture Ministry failed," said Sládek, head of the Aréna theatre on the south side of the Danube river. "The minister completely ignored our theatre and didn't once visit us. So I'm leaving for Germany, where I worked for a long time and where my work was appreciated."After first emigrating from Czechoslovakia in 1970 following the Soviet occupation, Sládek was forbidden to return. Not that he particularly minded, especially after starting his career again in Germany and becoming known as one of the world's greatest mimes over two decades of work.

Drought threatens crops

SE to escape punishment for tender bids

ECONOMY minister 1ubomír Harach has decided not to make personnel changes at state-owned Slovak electricity producer Slovenské elektrárne (SE) in response to the utility's controversial participation in tenders for 49 per cent stakes in central and eastern Slovak energy distributors SSE and VSE.Privatisation Ministry spokesman Róbert Merva confirmed on May 15 that SE had submitted a common bid for the distributors with the Italian company E-Noi, and that SE had been responsible for providing a financial guarantee for the transaction.

Cabinet moves to reimburse Holocaust victims

THE CABINET has appointed two of its members to prepare a plan to reimburse Slovakia's Jewish community for the horrors and property losses it suffered during the second world war.At its May 15 meeting, the cabinet appointed Pál Csáky, Deputy Prime Minister for Human Rights, and Ivan Mikloš, Deputy PM for Economy, to submit a plan by July 10 specifying how the reimbursement should be carried out and what funds should be used.During the second world war, about 70,000 Slovak Jews were deported to Nazi extermination camps, and their property seized under orders from the nominally independent Slovak government.

EcoMin proposes energy market plan

Slota did not urinate, says appeal court