Archive of articles - August 2004, page 4

Adopotion process to be simplified

Tire manufacturer Matador expands to Great Britain

The KDH opposes the EU constitution

New Investors for Levice-Géňa’s industrial park

Internet use growing but still low

Defence minister flies to Iraq

Coalition supports healthcare reform

Replacements for MEPs sworn in

Investigation of the fraud of the decade ends

Australian company to invest over €6 million in eastern Slovakia

Lidl will enter Slovak market in September

Minister wants regional schools administered by state

Villages near future site of Kia will not get state support

Finance Ministry plans to sell state debt to public

Minimum wage to increase to Sk6,500

Trnava hosts organists

AMERICAN organ player James David Christie from Boston opened the Trnava Organ Days with his concert on August 17. Now in its ninth year, the festival will run until October 1.The Trnava Organ Days, as the title suggests, focuses on presenting organ music, but it does not avoid including other instruments in its repertoire. Such is the case with the second chamber concert of the event, to be delivered by a Slovak trio comprised of a cembalist, flutist, and cellist, scheduled for August 22.

Quote of the Week

Light the Slovak fire

IT IS LATE summer, and the smell of smoke hangs in the air. As sure as you can catch the pungent whiff of burning leaves and waste from raked fields, so too might you taste the plumes of smoke rising from fires as families and friends opekajú.Translated by my dictionary as to roast, brown, grill, broil, toast, frizzle, and bake, opekať, or the practice of cooking meat over an open fire, is as Slovak as barbequing is American. But the two have very different flavours, and the opekačka is a rustic affair.

Energy law is missing