Archive of articles - November 2006, page 11

HZDS turns to opposition for support

Fico to take money from future pensioners

Six in 10 citizens trust the police

NEARLY 60 percent of citizens trust the Slovak police, according to a poll conducted by the Slovak Statistics Bureau in October this year. The result is 5.7 percentage points higher than that of a similar survey carried out one year ago.

PRESS digest: SME DAILY

A beating that never took place, but refuses to go away

TWO MONTHS after she claimed to have been beaten up in Nitra by a pair of men for speaking Hungarian, the case of student Hedviga Malinová remains as full of unanswered questions as when police first shelved it after a two week investigation, saying it never happened.

Enough Mečiar wooing

THE SUPRISINGLY restrained performance of Robert Fico's Smer party since taking power after June elections has complicated life for pragmatists in the opposition who claimed that given the nature of the current government, any alternative - even joining up with Vladimír Mečiar's HZDS - was to be preferred. For the good of the country, of course.

Development program gives young people taste of real life experiences

AS DIRECTOR of the Professional Development Center in Bratislava, Jaymes Regualos sensed that Slovakia could benefit from a program that gives young people a fun, hands-on way of testing their perseverance while learning about business.

Gas prices up in November, down in January

State to limit free choice of health insurer

PRESS digest: HOSPODÁRSKE NOVINY DAILY

Logistics is the future

SLOVAKIA is taking more and more advantage of its geographical location. A part of the EU and at the same time close to eastern parts of Europe, it is a favourite location for new logistics and stock parks. The construction of the parks was encouraged mainly by the entry of the large foreign investments in the country such as PSA Peugeot Citroen or Kia Motors Slovakia.

UN survey: Islands of deep poverty among Roma

Slovakia in fight for Sk16 billion investment

ECONOMY Minister Ľubomír Jahnátek has said he is determined to win a planned Sk16 billion (€430 million) investment by the South Korean electronics company Samsung for Slovakia over competing sites in Romania and Bulgaria, and visited the Asian country at the beginning of November to take his case directly to Samsung's top brass.

Opposition adapts to life after power

THE RESIGNATION of Deputy Agriculture Minister Marian Záhumenský over an apparent conflict of interest at the end of October was significant not only in its own right, but also for a less obvious reason - it was the first time the political opposition had closed ranks and worked together since the June 17 elections that toppled the government they formed in 2002 from power.

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Doctors expect 30 percent pay rise next year

Záhumenský quits as conflict charges mount

THE FICO government sustained its first conflict of interest casualty when Deputy Agriculture Minister Marian Záhumenský resigned following reported improprieties.Prime Minister Robert Fico announced that Záhumenský had quit in a terse statement on October 31, saying he accepted the deputy minister's decision, but not explaining the reasons behind it.

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