Archive of articles - April 2006, page 11

Elections postpone stock exchange privatization

SLOVAKIA'S capital market remains one of the poorest performers in Central Europe. The number of transactions is still dropping from year to year, as is the number of companies traded. Financial institutions operating on the Slovak capital market have long complained of the inefficiency of the Central Securities Depository, which registers securities and settles transactions.

Chmel back in harness as culture minister

ONLY 10 months since taking the job of culture minister, František Tóth was fired after sending thousands of letters to teachers across the country at public expense, letters that his cabinet colleagues considered to be a promotion gambit for his non-parliamentary Nádej party.

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Kukan says ambassadors will continue to be political nominees

THE FOREIGN Ministry will not avoid having political nominees become ambassadors after the next general elections, Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan said.

One step closer to Maastricht

AFTER pegging the Slovak crown to the euro and entering the Exchange Rate Mechanism II in a snap move last November, Slovakia went on to post one of the highest GDP growth rates of the past decade in 2005.

Separating art from politics

CULTURE has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, most of them to do with corruption and incompetence within the culture sector's state leadership.

Time to sing along with politicians

VOTERS still remember rallies for the 1998 election in which Vladimír Mečiar put on a show by carrying top model Claudia Schiffer around and waving to the crowd while surrounded by movie stars Gérard Depardieu and Claudia Cardinale.

Levice castle

THESE RUINS of Levice castle from the 1920s are what remains of the once-robust stronghold that dates back to around 1318.

Sekyra plans Sk11.3 billion investment

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Feeling the pinch

MAJORITY owners of firms in Slovakia may get the right to squeeze out minority shareholders as of the beginning of next year in line with a European Union requirement that member countries introduce the squeeze-out institution in their legislation.

No bird flu worries for Easter

EASTER has always been about eggs decorated with simple paintings or elaborate candle wax techniques that you can buy at a market or create at home.But will the arrival of bird flu spoil this year's fun?

Floods hit 200 towns and villages in Slovakia

Slovak Radio gets new director at last

Bratislava hospitals on strike

Merrill Lynch invests €37 million near Lozorno