Archive of articles - November 2004, page 7

Secret police files on Internet

Spanish aluminium producer to create 400 jobs in Nová Baňa

Unions quash Smer cooperation proposal

Slovnaft wants Transpetrol shares

Slovnaft reports significant profits

EIB finances motorways and municipal projects

Deficit projected to hit target

State ogles shares

SLOVAKIA might want its Transpetrol shares back just two and half years after the Slovak government sold a minority share of the crude oil pipeline operator to Yukos, Russia's second largest oil concern.Economy Minister Pavol Rusko said that Slovakia would do everything possible to regain Yukos' 49-percent share in Transpetrol. The Economy Ministry still owns 51 percent of the former state-owned pipeline company.

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Debate ensues over higher education

Former SIS deputy chief dies

VW Slovakia increases output

Slovakia a great economic package for investors

A LACK of publicity and the large distance between Slovakia and Great Britain are two of the reasons for the relatively low number of British investors operating in this country. However, there is a growing awareness in British business circles that investment in Slovakia can reap rich rewards.John Baron, chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Slovakia, considers the favourable tax regime, strategic location and the low cost but high quality of labour, to be the key advantages that Slovakia has to potential UK investors.

Tyre firm on a roll

Slovak asylum system "discourages" refugees

PIERFRANCESCO Maria Natta, who is head of the local Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Bratislava, believes that Slovakia has much to improve about its asylum policy. In an interview November 8, Natta shared his views with The Slovak Spectator (TSS).

Fifteen years of democracy - and life

ON November 17, 1989, Anton Halko, a political prisoner, found himself free after 17 years and six months in prison. He ordered rum and a chocolate bar at the Leopoldov train station, and then boarded a train to Bratislava. He wanted to experience for himself the last buzz of The Velvet Revolution.

KDH boss calls on Rača mayor to resign

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