Archive of articles - June 2002, page 6

Corporate profits down 17.4 per cent

Oh brother: The background of another scandal

A FOREIGN diplomat in Bratislava simply groaned when told of the Mikuláš Dzurinda cabinet's latest corruption scandal.The same reaction has probably come from thousands of people, both foreigners and locals, who have been dismayed by the government's inability to keep its nose clean, and its fatal flair for bad timing (last week's scandal comes three months before crucial national elections - see front page story).Most of the details of the recent affair really don't matter to anyone but the police investigating them - which bidder really submitted the better offer for supplying 35 new locomotives to the state railways firm, who was lobbying for which firm to win, whether the whistleblowers acted on as honourable grounds as they claimed.

Beer prices set to rise

Better collateral rules to help SME loans

Whirlpool plans $50 million investment

Communism was never here, say communists

Last parliament began June 18

Privatisation one of most positive areas of cabinet's record

The Dzurinda government, when taking office in October 1998, defined continuing with privatisation as one of its priorities. As conditions for reaching this goal it included transparency, observance of the rules of business competition, and creation of the related legislative environment.In line with these standards the government also set itself the goal of reviewing the legality of privatisation to date. It intended as well to continue privatising through means of public contests under public control, with the possibility of re-evaluating past privatisation decisions by courts in such a way that privatisation would create the preconditions for real restructuring and the healing of privatised companies.

TASR head up for dismissal

Police outline extent of extortion problem

Reader feedback: Europe should band together

Press bill to give politicians power

Reader feedback: Sleeping well in America

Cabinet postpones VSŽ share sale decision

The firing squad: Nine ministers gone

Košice forest tender ignored by investors

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Reader feedback: The colour of green

EuroThalia: A gate to Euro-stages?

THE SLOVAK capital Bratislava this year becomes the hub of the European theatre scene. In hosting the prestigious EuroThalia festival, which has been held about every second year in a different European country since 1989, Slovakia becomes the first post-communist state to organise the event within its borders.EuroThalia is a project by the European Theatre Convention, a pan-European institution grouping 34 theatres from 22 European countries with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Established in 1988, the Convention has so far created 3,472 productions and organised numerous festivals to bring European theatres together."The festival is an excellent opportunity for the institution and us to finally begin co-operation and exchanges," said Dušan Jamrich, the director of both the Slovak National Theatre and the EuroThalia 2002 festival.