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To protect and serve?
POLICE actions this past week have highlighted two enduring and dangerous trends in Slovak society and politics.The arrests of lawyer Ernest Valko and entrepreneur Ladislav Rehák, for example, reek of political revenge. Both men were powerful friends of the previous Dzurinda government, and above all were seen as having profited from their friendship.
Pricing changes not as Draconian as feared
THANKS to the European Commission, major industrial energy consumers will not be allowed to nominate representatives to the independent ÚRSO energy market regulator in future, nor will the government be able to fire ÚRSO bureaucrats at will if it dislikes their decisions.
Never a dull moment
MUNICIPAL politics in Slovakia are colourful even by the exotic standards set at the national level. But when citizens go to the polls on December 2 to elect mayors and councilors in 2,926 voting districts, they will have to somehow make sense out of the crazy coalitions, the heavy-handed election strategies and the mixed bag of candidates to choose the people who will decide on matters that touch their lives most intimately for the next four years.
"Unbelievable" economy grows by 9.8 percent
BANK analysts haven't exactly worn out the list of superlatives in describing the Slovak economy over the years, but the record 9.8 percent growth achieved in the third quarter of 2006 had them groping for words to fit the occasion.
Is a deal finally in the pipeline?
DESPITE warnings not to let the Kremlin gain control of a 49 percent stake in the Transpetrol oil pipeline administrator, Slovakia has still not moved to recover the stake itself. Even if it now decided to do so, analysts say, it still might not meet a deadline of April 2007 to accomplish the transaction.
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- Maria Theresa on the banks of Bratislava
- Slovakia loses another EV model to Spain as Stellantis chooses Zaragoza over Trnava
- The Kremlin’s security agency has a Russian contractor in Slovakia - no one has noticed
- From eight to thousands of runners. How Košice marathon rose to prominence Photo
- Slovak female triathlete shatters barriers with historic win at Himalayan event
- No more photos or bank statements? Slovakia moves to ease residence process
- Iconic Slovak barn still draws crowds. Without donors, it might have been lost Photo
- The law changed. Our family papers were ready. Now my kids are Slovak citizens
- Maria Theresa on the banks of Bratislava
- The Kremlin’s security agency has a Russian contractor in Slovakia - no one has noticed
- Slovak female triathlete shatters barriers with historic win at Himalayan event
- Slovakia loses another EV model to Spain as Stellantis chooses Zaragoza over Trnava
- From eight to thousands of runners. How Košice marathon rose to prominence Photo
- No more photos or bank statements? Slovakia moves to ease residence process
- Iconic Slovak barn still draws crowds. Without donors, it might have been lost Photo
- The law changed. Our family papers were ready. Now my kids are Slovak citizens
- Maria Theresa on the banks of Bratislava
- No more photos or bank statements? Slovakia moves to ease residence process
- Weekend: Celebration of fun comes to Malacky Photo
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- 3 free things to do in Bratislava in the next seven days
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- Digital Jarvis is real now. He is coming for your to-do list
- The law changed. Our family papers were ready. Now my kids are Slovak citizens
- Maria Theresa on the banks of Bratislava
- No more photos or bank statements? Slovakia moves to ease residence process
- A mayor resigns over €2.7 million fraud scandal at town hall
- The Kremlin’s security agency has a Russian contractor in Slovakia - no one has noticed
- Fico praises China and Vietnam as models, says liberal democracy has failed
- News digest: Violent gang in Bratislava is under arrest
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- The law changed. Our family papers were ready. Now my kids are Slovak citizens
- News digest: Prosecutor seeks jail for NBS Governor Kažimír as his political support wanes
- Slovakia loses another EV model to Spain as Stellantis chooses Zaragoza over Trnava
- Slovak female triathlete shatters barriers with historic win at Himalayan event
- Weekend: Celebration of fun comes to Malacky Photo
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- Slovakia plans to restrict access to new medicines amid funding shortfall
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