Archive of articles - July 2005, page 3

Reader feedback: Fear of difference

Going green in summer

FOR THE seventh year in a row the city of Bratislava is organizing Green City, a project aimed at tidying and making the Slovak capital greener.At a press conference on July 14, city officials announced that the districts of Ružinov, Petržalka, and Lamač had been chosen for cleaning and greening this year.

Who will protect them?

TERRORIST attacks harm nations not only through taking human lives but also by increasing tensions within the society and fuelling fear of foreigners.

First come the Maastricht criteria

Slovak appointed special EU envoy

Timetable for euro adoption in Slovakia

Crime solving rate increases

Bojnice's Italian gem

NARDO di Cione's table paintings, or the famous Bojnice Altar, are among the jewels of the Bojnice castle museum. They were part of the collection of the castle's last owner, Count Ján František Pálffy.

Distribution of extra tax from US Steel

Searching for common ground

TWO seemingly unrelated events in the news caught my attention this week.The first was Pohoda, the huge music festival at Trenčín's military airport. Tens of thousands of people, mainly Slovaks, but many from across Europe, gathered for the two-day happening.

Interview with Roman Kuruc, General Director of SARIO

STATE assistance needs more specific rules when it comes to deciding what level of incentives to grant to what type of investor. Roman Kuruc, general director of the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO) said the agency has now prepared such rules. They should make it easier to formulate a concrete offer to investors.

Privatization takes off

AT THE SAME time as Hungary is inviting a foreign investor to put money into its national airport, the Slovak Transport Ministry announced a public tender to privatize Slovakia's two largest airports.

Railway company up for grabs

FREIGHT company ŽSSK Cargo, one of the first state-owned railway cargo companies to be privatized in Europe, can have no complaint about any lack of interest from foreign investors. Concerns from several countries are said to be eyeing the Slovak company, which could provide an important link to Russia and the East.

Reader feedback: Common values

Transpetrol stake offer fake, says Havran

Help for Tatras approved

Court ponders EU treaty

AFTER Slovakia's Constitutional Court accepted a complaint from a citizens' group, which argued that parliament's approval of the EU Constitutional Treaty was against the Slovak Constitution, Slovakia's President Ivan Gašparovič signalled that whatever the court ruling, he does not consider it binding.

Half of Tatras cleared of calamity

Regulator halts gas price review