Archive of articles - July 2006, page 2

Petrol prices up by 86 hellers from July 3-10

Political news roundup

June 1 - The Public Service Office (ÚŠS) has officially closed but its chairman Ľubomír Plai remains in his job because parliament forgot to cancel the post when voting to shut down the ÚŠS earlier this year. Plai's term in office officially ends in April 2007.

Changes to Labour Code will settle the bill

THE time has come for Prime Minister Robert Fico to pay his bill for the support the trade unions rained down on his Smer party ahead of the June 17 elections. The first payment should come through the modifications to the country's Labour Code, which has turned Slovakia into one of the most flexible labour forces in Europe.

GreatPohoda festival ends sadly

THE CHEERFUL two-day celebration of Pohoda's tenth year saw a tragic ending. Slovakia's largest open-air festival reported the first fatality in its history. A young Czech died while dismantling a stage on Sunday morning of July 16.

Czech PM supports Fico

PRIME Minister Robert Fico made his first foreign trip as PM when he visited the Czech Republic on July 15. Traditionally, the Czech Republic is the first country visited by the new Slovak PM.

Slovakia's nicest town welcomes home one of its biggest stars

NESTLED nicely in the nice Štiavnické Hills, where wildlife outnumbers the nice inhabitants, Banská Štiavnica is a nice town set to host some stellar music: the appropriately-named Festival of Nice Music.

Reader feedback: Look who's talking

Troubled intelligence

A COUNTRY shouldn't be too aware of the existence of its intelligence service or secret police.But some regimes feel the need to coerce people with an amorphous institution that bears omnipresent ears and eyes.

New airport terminal a priority

The most trusted: Fico, Slota and Gašparovič

Departure from Iraq is being prepared

Smer firmly grasps the wheel

SMER may already have a firm grasp on the state steering wheel, but its leader, Robert Fico, is leaving nothing to chance. Now that it has packed its nominees into the country's most key ministerial posts, the leftist party is installing its deputy ministers at all the governmental departments, except the Health Ministry, which is led by a Smer-appointed minister.

Nida Core Corporation to build plant

Small businesses propose tax cuts to 15 percent

Nature Shorts

Spišská Sobota

THE SMALL town of Spišská Sobota, nowadays part of Poprad, has one of the best preserved historical town centres in Slovakia. Thanks to stagnating development during the 19th century, almost everything on the square has remained unchanged.

Business news roundup

June 1 - Danish investor Unomedical opens a production plant in Michalovce. The new plant will produce disposable sterile medical materials and instruments. The company is investing more than Sk350 million and plans to employ up to 550 people.

Group of 22 Slovaks returns from Lebanon

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