Archive of articles - August 2004, page 14

Reader feedback: Mexico drops visa requiremen

Reader feedback: Tourism at odds with preservation

Reader feedback: Using a sledgehammer to crack nuts

Záborská elected head of EP committee

Ending social exclusion

Social exclusion of the vulnerable socio-ethnic groups never solves the underlying problem, but only widens the gap between the majority and these minority groups, invoking the risk of future social conflicts, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kálmán Mizsei said in an interview with The Slovak Spectator.

Autonomy issue stirs controversy

IN RESPONSE to recent comments that Slovakia's ruling Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK) officials made regarding the issue of possible Hungarian autonomy in the mixed Slovak Hungarian area, the Slovak National Party (SNS) is calling for the SMK to be banned.At the end of July, Zsolt Németh, a member of Hungary's opposition party Fidezs, told the Hungarian press that one of the main goals of the Slovak SMK party was to achieve autonomy in the south of Slovakia where the majority of the country's Hungarian minority live

Tycoon free again

TYCOON Jozef Majský, who stands accused of setting up an organised crime group during the collapse of unlicensed deposit companies that deprived thousands of Slovaks of their life-long savings, was unexpectedly released from custody.Majský, the main character behind many success stories in the 1990s, was behind bars for almost 22 months.Prosecutor General, Dobroslav Trnka, said that legal reasons no longer existed to keep one of the richest men in Slovakia in custody, after the investigation of the collapse of unlicensed saving companies, BMG Invest and Horizont Slovakia, concluded recently.

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Soldiers return from Iraq

Police cannot stop Majský from running away

SDKÚ meets with independent MPs in Austria

Petition for outlawing the SMK launched

Pharmaceutical firms' turnover down 20 percent year-on-year

Majský released from custody

ZSE reports Sk21.1 billion in electricity sales for 2003

Carlton reports H1 sales of €3.7 million

Baumit with H1 revenues of Sk556 million

EasyJet to fly from Bratislava to London, Berlin

Soldiers return from Iraq