Archive of articles - April 2007, page 2

Kia Motors' Slovak plant officially opens

At US Embassy, community art speaks to security

LIKE many Bratislavans, the students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) have strong opinions on the fence that's cordoned off the US Embassy from Hviezdoslavovo Square for the past three years.

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Police bust kidnap gang in their midst

THE POLICE have unmasked an organized gang operating within their midst, and have so far charged six current and former officers, including four regional special tactics operatives, with crimes of theft and kidnapping going back to 1999.

Slovakia supports Serbia's entry to EU and NATO

Fico: Tax reduction unacceptable

Smer still the most popular party in Slovakia

THE LEADING party in Slovakia's ruling coalition, Smer, is still the most widely supported, even though the party's popularity has been decreasing.The latest public opinion poll from the Statistics Office's Institute for Public Opinion Research (ÚVVM), which polled 1,110 adults from April 1 to April 10, showed that 42.9 percent of those polled support Smer.

Slovak doctors headed to Libya

THE FIRST STEPS have been taken towards fulfilling Prime Minister Robert Fico's offer to Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to treat HIV-positive Libyan children in Slovakia.Three medical specialists and a representative from the Slovak Health Ministry were to leave for Benghazi on April 29 for a five-day visit to Libya, during which time they will examine the children and find which ones would benefit most from treatment in Slovakia.

Civilian oversight of police needed

THE POLICE should be commended for ridding their ranks of the likes of Miroslav Jacko, one of the six current and former officers jailed for their roles in a kidnapping and theft ring that had been operating within the force since 1999.

Central bank cuts key interest rates again

Kelemen snags Music Critics' Prize

HUNGARIAN violinist Barnabás Kelemen won the Music Critics' Award at the Central European Music Festival in Žilina on April 21. The prize entitles the young musician, who topped the International Violin Competition in Indianapolis in 2002 and holds numerous other prizes, to perform next year at the festival.

A holiday in the dentist's chair

FOR MANY TOURISTS, a holiday to Slovakia involves sitting in a café in the streets of Bratislava's downtown. However, some foreigners visit Slovakia just to sit in a dentist's chair.Slovakia's entry to the EU and the arrival of low-cost airlines flung open the gates to health tourism. Foreigners mainly from Great Britain, Ireland and Austria come to Slovakia to receive medical treatment, especially dental services.

Mečiar's path

As Robert Fico's advisor for media, Ľubica Mižičková said she wanted to convince Fico to return to TV talk shows, and that she wanted to "help create normal relations between the prime minister and the media". Two months later, the prime minister has returned to talk shows, but his relations with the media remain deeply substandard.

Mošovce

DURING communism, the whole country was studded with similar-looking slogans and banners, confirming eternal friendship with the Soviet Union and urging us to improve productivity at work.

Objection of conscience

Almost 70 years after the foundation of the wartime Slovak state, which played a significant role in the Holocaust, one would expect that a society based on liberal-democratic values would have come to terms with this past. Not so.

Jobless rate drops to historic low in March

Slovakia's participation in Iraq ends

Remiáš timeline

Largest Slovenian insurer enters Slovak market