Archive of articles - August 2005, page 2

Sail away with the sounds of summer

SAILING the Danube draws tourists every year to Bratislava's annual Summer of Culture festival. They especially look forward to day cruises featuring onboard musical performances. Flamenco, klezmer, opera and country have all recently been heard floating up from the Martin boat as it plies its way to Devín and back.

Reader feedback: Vandals at bay

Slovaks, Moldavians sign military treaty

Slovak consulate targeted in Ukraine

Cameras focus on Poprad for one week

THERE are subjects you like to shoot and subjects you hate. One of the workshops at the annual Summer Photoschool in Poprad challenged participants to focus on detested themes or implement unpopular photo techniques. What at first seems like mission impossible actually ended with applause, since the activity uncovered hidden abilities and freed former restraints.

Slovakia to pardon aid debts

State fine tunes tax reform

TRUE to its promise, the Finance Ministry is refining the radical tax laws it pushed through in 2003. Finance Minister Ivan Mikloš recently proposed a draft revision to existing tax legislation that would create equal taxing conditions for a wide range of professions.

School exit exams to show class rank

The power of the few

THANKS to non-governmental organizations and human rights activists backed by hundreds of citizens, the country will not lose modern and effective legislation governing the Freedom of Information Act.

Reader feedback: No visa regime guarantee

Early elections considered

WITH THE IMMINENT removal of Economy Minister Pavol Rusko and signs of his New Citizen's Alliance (ANO) party dividing into camps, questions regarding the future of Mikuláš Dzurinda's government are brought to the foreground.

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Dzurinda: August 1968 important year

You are what you eat

IT IS NOW legal to import genetically modified (GM) sweet corn plants into Slovakia. Despite a no vote by 14 European Union environment ministers, the European Commission decided to allow GM sweet corn to flood the EU market.

Public deficit beats expectations

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Reader feedback: Happy Meal, please

Foreign student famine

CHARLES University in Prague, the largest and oldest university in the Czech Republic, attracts more than three times as many foreign students as Comenius University in Bratislava, its Slovak counterpart. Whereas 2,000 foreign students (many of them Slovaks) take classes at Charles University, only 550 foreign students are enrolled at Comenius.

Airport deal draws scores of buyers