Archive of articles - February 2007

Archbishop Sokol admits to contacts with communist secret service

Hidden privatization of bus firms prepared

PM admits special regional office could be preserved

Supreme Court chief justice complains about minister

Fico negotiates electricity imports from Ukraine

Lie detector test suggests murder convicts are innocent

Corrupt mayor’s sentence confirmed

Fewer people reporting corruption, police study shows

SMK to change statutes

Slovak troops return from Iraq

SE to complete Mochovce nuclear power plant

Should we freeze wages for the euro?

From being a borderline euro-skeptic, PM Robert Fico has become such a euro-fanatic that he has even proposed freezing wages in order to be sure of meeting the inflation criterion for adopting the currency. Strangely, he has in this the support of the unions, who recently got what they wanted in the draft Labour Code amendment.

Mikolaj's monitor

Originally, Monitor 9 was to have tested the knowledge of elementary school students who were applying for spots at Slovak high schools. Following the postponement of the date on which it will be held, however, Monitor 9 has become a test of school principals and the Education Ministry.

Government prepares first privatization

ALTHOUGH the new Robert Fico government has pledged not to privatize state property, it is already planning the sale of a 37 percent stake in Poštová Banka (PB) owned by the state debt consolidation agency Slovenská Konsolidačná (SKo).

Enel may get up to Sk50 billion in compensation

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Slovak politicians wrestle with domestic 'Kosovo'

FEW RECENT foreign policy topics have captured the attention of Slovak politicians more than the future of the south Serbian province of Kosovo as envisaged in a compromise plan submitted by UN envoy Marrti Ahtisaari several weeks ago.

Ministry pays off controversial arms trader

FOLLOWING a court case with the Slovak government lasting almost a decade, the Defense Ministry has paid Sk200 million as part of an out-of-court settlement in the case of the Katrim Stella arms trading firm, the Nový Čas daily reported on February 22.

President angered by SMK