Archive of articles - April 2007, page 4

No-confidence motion against Valentovič dismissed

Fico: Tax reduction absolutely unacceptable

Fire-fighters try to put out second wildfire near Staré Hory

Finance Ministry proposes cutting income tax

SNS against granting more power to trade unions

Excise taxes on motor fuels will not decrease

Smer holds party congress

PM Fico: Everyone must have access to health care

Guns, violence and the babka factor

THE TEMPTATION, when confronted with another absurd act of violence from the United States, is to dismiss it as something that could never happen here. As something extreme that belongs to the land of super-sized cars, hamburgers and decadence.

Risk associated with purchasing real estate properties

The real estate boom in Slovakia shows no signs of slowing down and all indications are that it is not likely to subside any time soon. The high rate of economic growth achieved in the last few years has ended up being reflected in rising prices in the real estate market. Real estate prices have in fact been rising much faster than the living standard of the general population.

Socialist housing project will get another facelift

BRATISLAVA'S southern suburb of Petržalka, with its dilapidated concrete blocks of flats inhabited by over 100,000 people, is still the most visible part of the city's socialist legacy. People often call this labyrinth-like part of town a concrete jungle.

One-third of Slovaks go out to eat every month

ONE-THIRD of Slovaks go to a restaurant once a month, and every 10th Slovak eats out once a week.That is according to a new survey from the TNS SK polling agency, conducted on a sample of 1,017 respondents in December 2006.

Five points

In its new analysis on reducing surplus capacity in the healthcare system, the Health Ministry claims that health insurance companies proposed "a list of 36 independent hospitals or large parts of teaching hospitals that are suitable for re-profiling."

March inflation lower than expected

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Original Široký files still exist

THE ORIGINAL communist secret police (ŠtB) file on controversial businessman Juraj Široký, which disappeared from the Nation's Memory Institute, is safe and

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Quiet before the storm

River ranked rankest

EXPERTS have announced that the Nitra River is among the dirtiest, not only in Slovakia, but in all of Europe.Slovak authorities have ranked the river in the fifth category on a contamination scale of one to five, with one being the cleanest.