Archive of articles - October 2006

Doctors expect 30 percent pay raise as of next year

Survey: Six of 10 citizens trust the police

Čarnogurský alters KDH view on Mečiar

Fico claims attempts have been made to corrupt him

Záhumenský to keep job

State to limit free choice of health insurer

Chemical firms blame strong crown for falling competitiveness

Confidence indicator for industry at second highest level this year

Mutual funds awaiting real estate investors

SLOVAKS will soon be able to invest in real estate through a special type of mutual fund thanks to an amendment to the Act on Collective Investment, which allows financial institutions to offer units in new real estate funds.

Real estate price map coming next year

SLOVAKIA has no common database of closed real estate deals, which makes investment decisions and market price estimates more complicated than they need be.But this is about to change: The National Association of Real Estate Offices of Slovakia (NARKS) plans to launch a "price map" of Slovak real estate in the first quarter of 2007.

Bratislava airport security tightened

Realism pushes SND Opera into new artistic territory

IF THE management of the Slovak National Theatre (SND) asked those who attended its recent premiere of Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (Cav/Pag) to part with a comment on the production, mine would be this: don't let Ondrej Lenárd or Blanka Juhaňáková out of your sights.

Ex-PM not planning to leave for Brussels

Hungry Slovak homebuyers doing some crossborder shopping

BRATISLAVA, the wealthiest and fastest-growing city in Slovakia, is bordered immediately to the south and west by neighbouring countries. With residential development space around the capital limited, and demand for new apartments and houses rocketing, buyers are starting to spill over the frontier into towns such as Kittsee, Wolfsthal, and Hainburg in Austria and Rajka and Dunakiliti in Hungary.

EVENTS COUNTRYWIDE

November brings photo exhibitions to Bratislava

NOVEMBER has become a Lucullan feast for photography fans in the Slovak capital, as exhibitions usually flood a variety of institutions. This year is no exception, with 36 exhibitions arriving for the 16th Month of Photography.

Urban planners no match for aggressive developers

BRATISLAVA is under immense pressure from developers to authorize ambitious projects in various parts of the city, but lacks one of the most basic tools for creating order in the midst of chaos - a master plan that would tell politicians and entrepreneurs what could be built where.

PM wants high-level relations with Russia

Culture Ministry studying pros and cons of public media merger

AS EXPECTED, the STV Council last week failed to elect a new director for the public station. Despite the fact that the three second-round candidates received even fewer total votes from the 15-member council than they had in the first round, government officials said the stalemate had nothing to do with the fact that the ruling coalition has not decided what it wants to do with the country's public media.