Archive of articles - June 2007, page 3

Prešov aspires to become culture capital; Senica discusses wind farms

Almost 66 percent against Csáky leading SMK

THE MAJORITY of people interviewed in a recent poll said that the Party of the Hungarian Coalition would be better off under its former chairman Béla Bugár.

Marijuana's popularity growing

Parliament against limiting MPs' immunity

Jenewein & Partners Becomes AMROP HEVER Slovakia

Unemployment rate hits record low

Smer still well ahead of SDKÚ and SNS

PRIME Minister Robert Fico's Smer party remains Slovakia's most popular party, the SITA newswire wrote. The Statistics Bureau's Institute for Public Opinion Research conducted a poll from June 1 to 8 on a sample of 1,073 respondents.

Fico remains the most trusted politician

PRIME Minister Robert Fico, leader of the ruling coalition Smer party was once again chosen as Slovakia's most trustworthy politician in a public opinion poll in June.The survey, conducted by the Statistics Office's Institute for Public Opinion Research from June 1 to 8, showed that as much as 34.3 percent of respondents trust him.

EVENTS COUNTRYWIDE

Gyurcsány: "There aren't two Schengens."

THE PRIME ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia spoke out against Austria's request that their countries' accession to the Schengen zone be delayed, during a prime ministerial summit of Visegrad Four (V4) countries in Bratislava.

Vox populi, vox dei

POPULISTS have never been the most inventive of politicians. They don't have to be. The populist formula is intellectually undemanding but, it seems, also timeless: tell the masses you are their eyes, their ears and most importantly their voice.

Quote of the Week:

Inflation rate lowest since 1997

LAST spring a World Bank report on the economic performance of the Visegrad Four countries warned that inflation could become Slovakia's main problem in the run up to euro adoption while the country's central bank crusaded to curb inflation by raising key interest rates. The latest inflation data gives the central bank and market watchers a reason to relax.

"Society has come a long way"

SLOVAK society has come a long way since the first half of the 1990s, said sociology professor Soňa Szomolányi, who sees no risk of Slovakia regressing to the times of Vladimír Mečiar's coalition in 1994 to 1998 when the country found itself on the verge of international isolation.

Rimavské Brezovo

THIS BEAUTIFUL church in Rimavské Brezovo is one of several highly valued architectural monuments in the Rimava River Valley in Gemer region. It dates back to the end of the 13th century and was originally built in the early Gothic style.

Východná Festival of folk music and dance revived

THE INTERRUPTED tradition of the biggest folk music and dance festival in Slovakia will resume in the northern Slovak village of Východná on June 29. On this day, the gates of the new premises will open to welcome more than a thousand performers and thousans of visitors.

Gov replaces appointee for Roma minority

Summer of Culture opens with songs of activism and empowerment

RIGHT AROUND this time last year, the doors of the Summer of Culture Festival in Bratislava were blown open with a massive Sting concert that rocked the Artmedia Petržalka Football Stadium.This year's opening act is just as exciting, albeit slighty more low-key.

Unions want their "law of the year"

"THE LAW of the year" is how Prime Minister Robert Fico referred to it when advocating the latest revision to the Labour Code, which is to replace what Fico has called a "neo-liberal code that needs to be returned to the form it had before the large amendments" made by the Mikuláš Dzurinda government.