Archive of articles - May 2007

Labour Minister approves sanctions against employers of illegal immigrants

Supreme Court upholds Fruni's conviction and prison sentence

Sarközy family suffers another attack at hands of masked assailants

Slovakia places 17th in Global Peace Index's ranking

Czech, Slovak and Polish Agriculture Ministers to take EC to court

Foreign minister attends Asia-Europe meeting

Breweries in Slovakia expect production growth

Village association to participate in new project in Brussels

Former Kia land owners again considering blockading the plant

Lipšic: Changes to Criminal Code favour criminals

Slovak to run for World Entrepreneur of the Year

Virgin Records co-founder Nik Powell to take part in Artfilm Festival

George Michael's Bratislava concert draws crowds

EU and Kosovo key issues at Central European Presidents' summit

HZDS Presidium supports Mečiar's bid for re-election

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Open-air music festivals on their way

The warm weather is a sign that the open-air festival season is here.The seventh year of the Wilsonic electronic music festival will start the season with a bang, playing on five stages next to the Danube in Bratislava on June 8 and 9.Headliners Swedish Koop with young Japanese singer Yukimi Nagano and French Nouvelle Vague will appear live with around 50 other acts on the Tyršovo Nábrežie embankment on the south bank of the Danube.

ÚPN co-founder leaves in protest

One of the founders of the Nation's Memory Institute (ÚPN), the office responsible for archiving and publishing state and police files documenting Slovakia's communist and fascist regimes, is now leaving the institute in protest of recent trends.

Ministers open Tatras to developers

A LAND-USE plan for the Tatras National Park proposes to open highly sensitive areas to tourism development, and according to the park's former director is "a piece of absurdity" that would destroy some of the park's most valuable protected species.