Archive of articles - March 2007, page 6

Is the economy too strong?

FOLLOWING record growth in GDP and industrial production, the trade deficit became the latest macro-economic indicator to outperform expectations on March 14.

Pioneering gallery modernizes Slovak art scene

DOWN THE NARROW, MEDIEVAL streets that once held the bookstores and synagogues that made up Bratislava's vibrant Jewish quarter is a new gallery that's revitalizing the neighborhood through contemporary art.

Samsung: more traffic, better pay

NOT EVERYONE is doing cartwheels at the prospect of Slovakia's third-largest foreign investment ever settling near Trnava in the country's investment-heavy west.

Fruni: The Christian Democrats are Mafia

Coalition politician caught taking bribe

Samsung investment a go

SOUTH KOREAN company Samsung Electronics LCD has signed an investment contract with the Slovak Republic that the government believes will pave the way for a total of 5,700 new jobs.

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Court to start bankruptcy proceedings

Prime Minister satisfied with agreement

Slovaks return Olympics to Torino

A DOUBLE EXHIBITION of colour photos by Jana Šebestová and Radovan Stoklasa returned the atmosphere of Winter Olympic Games to its main venue, Torino, during the second half of February. The exhibition, Two Views on Olympic Torino, took place in the exhibition premises of the Piedmont Region in the centre of the city, and was met with a warm welcome.

Debate over nuclear power continues

Now that the government and Italian power producer Enel have announced plans to complete the power plant in Mochovce, non-governmental organizations are calling on the authorities to study the cheapest way to develop the country's energy sector.

Ego Formula One

The experiences of a Formula One driver on Slovakia's roads, which police president Ján Packa generously shared with the readers of the Hospodarske Noviny newspaper, are a fascinating testimony to the Godlike feeling of immunity experienced by the functionaries of the old Soviet school who are now continuing their careers in post-communist democracies.

Employers walk out over Labour Code

February inflation slowed down to 2.7 percent

Around Slovakia

Central Europe to become EU dumping ground?

EVERY seventh lorry on European roads is carrying waste, European Union statistics say.If the statistics included illegal waste transport, the number would be much higher.This so-called eco-dumping - transporting garbage to countries where waste disposal is cheaper - has mostly been a problem for central European countries.

Beňová praises reforms

MONIKA BEŇOVÁ-FLAŠÍ-KOVÁ, once seen as Prime Minister Robert Fico's strongest supporter and a fiery advocate for the ruling Smer party's social-democrat policy, has once again shocked her fellow party members with her failure to toe the party line.

Czech MEP: Fico deliberately called Bulgarian nurses "perpetrators"

Creditors of bankrupt Drukos to meet at the end of March