Archive of articles - June 2002, page 18

Trade deficit slowing

SE sale plan approved

Police to reopen Mečiar file

Greeks reward Slovak historian

HE MAY not know it, but 83-year-old writer Vojtech Zamarovský is a living example of Bob Dylan's determination to "know my song well before I start singing".The renowned author of 11 books on the history of ancient cultures, Zamarovský, now on crutches, has explored museums, taken part in archaeological digs, and talked to people across the lands which once cradled great civilisations.His lifelong devotion to Egyptian and Greek mythology, and his natural ability to tell simple and elegant histories, has resulted in his books being translated into 12 languages. His fame has even reached his beloved Greece, where his daughter lives.

Mečiar flexes muscles for AP

Twin deficits draw heavy fire

DESPITE repeated warnings from international bodies, the Slovak government has done little to assuage fears of deepening trade and fiscal deficits, say analysts.Slovakia's official fiscal deficit target of 3.5 per cent of GDP has been abandoned, and even the cabinet's revised target of 4.5 per cent of GDP has been challenged by foreign experts.The expanding fiscal deficit is also seen as deepening the country's worrying trade deficit, which reached a record Sk103.2 billion last year, and recorded a year-on-year widening of Sk800 million for the first quarter of 2002.

Police struck by food poisoning

Top Pick: Yes Mama: blues comes to town

A DIXIELAND music parade performing traditional jazz and blues and accompanied by majorettes will march the streets of central Bratislava on the afternoon of June 6. Their aim is to lure passersby to the first annual Blues City Festival opening that evening.Over the following two nights, a handful of local and international blues musicians will deliver live performances on three different stages. After the parade culminates in a concert on the Main Square, blues lovers will then be invited to move on to the nearby Culture and Leisure Park (PKO) on the Danube river embankment, where four bands will share a stage.Starting at 20:00, the PKO show on June 6 will culminate in a concert by Sydney Ellis, an American blues and jazz singer.

NBS issues another fiscal warning

Bučina negotiating with three investors

Journalists quit, accuse STV of political pressure

Dzurinda criticises courage of judges