Archive of articles - April 2005, page 7

Auto giants fight to hire

WHILE British car manufacturer MG Rover is facing a financial crisis, kept alive only by a Ł25 million (€36.7 million) subsidy from the British government; and while the German and French auto industries are struggling to keep from sinking, Slovakia is preparing for a huge expansion in its car manufacturing sector.

Honest portrait of Roma

AMERICAN photographer Michael Robinson-Chavez did not come to Slovakia to snap a few clichéd images of poor Roma - dirty children playing in trash, so common in much western media. Nor did he come to shoot propaganda material on the Slovak Roma and spread it around the world. Instead, he came to live with them for a couple of weeks and shoot what he saw.

Bank deals fair hand

THE GAP between the nation's eastern and western regions continues to grow.While Bratislava and its environs enjoy lucrative foreign direct investment, the East suffers some of the highest unemployment rates in the European Union. Recently, the closure of several regional schools in Eastern Slovakia revealed just how desperate the situation has become.

Kyoto: A boom in the fumes market

THE FIGHT against global climate change reached the next level this February when the Kyoto Protocol came into effect. Under the international treaty, the European community agreed to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 8 percent below its 1990 levels starting in 2008. One of the elements of the EU's combat strategy in this environmental effort is emissions trading.

Dzurinda longest-serving PM

Illegal migrants: Massive drop in 2005

Siegling opens in Malacky

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FNM inspection: billions without receipts

On the border: Slovakia in maps

THE SLOVAK National Museum in Bratislava opens Slovakia in Maps from the 16th to the 20th Centuries. The exhibition documents the little known cartographic history of Slovakia, from the beginning of the 16th century to the present. The sub-theme of the exhibition is Slovak borders: national, regional and municipal.

Curvy wires show through

BRATISLAVA's K Gallery is home to a collection of subtly created parodies of female fashions until May 2. In these days of early spring men may stare in wonder at the provocatively modelled erotic outfits called Bloody Mary, Butterfly-woman or Grass-woman.

Kállay's shutter reveals all

WELL-KNOWN Slovak photographer Karol Kállay, famed at home and abroad for capturing dramatic events and city landscape, now reveals himself as a fashion photographer.

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Lawyers: New gowns for less money?

Enel counts on SE for billions in profits

More gives than takes

BY 2008, if everything goes according to plan, Slovakia will produce more cars per capita than any other country in the world.Even though Volkswagen is the only manufacturer currently producing cars in Slovakia, 32 percent of the country's overall exports belong to the automotive industry.

NBS with Sk6.2 billion profit in March