Archive of articles - May 2006, page 2

The clown who would be king

EACH political arena has its buffoons. Some are entertaining and harmless while others are annoying, but most have one thing in common - no one takes them seriously.

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Amnesty sounds new warning on Slovak Roma

ALTHOUGH Slovak democracy has outgrown its most serious childhood diseases, it still has a few more self-treatments to undergo to rid itself of the virus of discrimination against Europe's most vulnerable ethnic minority, the Roma.

Letting a stranger do the books

OUTSOURCING may be the answer for the finance department at all stages of a company's development, especially for firms that are looking to cut costs.

The week of modern opera

TWO years ago, the Slovak National Theatre (SND) set out to prove that opera and ballet are "living music theatre forms that can address today's public".

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Bar Association sacks attorney who worked with police

THE SLOVAK Bar Association (SAK) has banished attorney Mária Mešencová for cooperating with the police in a corruption sting aimed at her colleague, a decision that Slovak Justice Minister Lucia Žitňanská called "absurd and scandalous".

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Pessimists and optimists in balance in Slovakia

ACCORDING to a recent survey by the Institute for Public Affairs (IVO) think tank, 46 percent of Slovaks believe the country is heading in the right direction, while 50 percent of people believe the opposite.

Curing what ails them

SLOVAK managers are beginning to understand that their employees need training, but too often use training sessions to eliminate operational problems, rather than making them a regular part of the employee environment, consultants say.

Fico accuses SDKÚ of money laundering

New operator starts providing services

Business says good riddance to latest FDI "blackmailer"

THE MEDIA uproar surrounding German car components producer Dräxl-maier, which unexpectedly dropped plans to build a Sk700 million plant and employ 1,200 people in impoverished Rimavská Sobota, had scarcely subsided when another prospective investor threatened to take its money to Poland instead of Slovakia if the state failed to come through with the lavish incentives package it was asking for.

Reader feedback: Focus on heritage

Detva gains Sk221 million fom Brussels

Around Slovakia

Reader feedback: Only paper results

Brezno

THE HRON river snakes through a considerable part of Slovakia. The region in the upper part of the flow is called Hohehronie, which has Brezno as its centre.