Archive of articles - August 2007, page 2

Hungarians consider forming new party

Smer-SD concerned by SMK's silence on MGE

Slovakia to apply for post on UN Human Rights Council

Jaslovské Bohunice power plant to be used in future

Petrol prices dip in mid-August; price of diesel flat

Kaliňák signs Sk1-billion deal with Kia

Police to search for laundered money in casinos

SE continues preparing for nuclear plant completion

Slovak Telekom pays fine for number portability

Bratislava wants more people using public transit

Energy security - a top priority: Oszkár Világi

ENERGY supply security is a top priority. Though the Druzhba pipeline remains the key supply route at the moment and for the future, the renewal of the Adria pipeline is also important, Slovnaft CEO Oszkár Világi said in an interview with The Slovak Spectator. Világi also shared his thoughts on developments on the oil market, fuel quality, environmental safety, bio fuels and development in the Bratislava Region.

Bratislava Airport will be ready for Schengen: PM

Slovaks united by euro ambitions: Barát

COMMUNICATION is more important than ever for Slovakia, with a year to go before it has to pass the preparedness test for joining the eurozone, said Igor Barát, Slovakia's government proxy for the introduction of the euro. Slovakia has to communicate intensively with EU institutions and convince the European Commission and the European Central Bank that it's ready.

Warsaw Pact invasion remembered

Health Minister Valentovič changes his mind

SLOVAKIA'S Health Minister Ivan Valentovič has changed his mind over a proposal that has already brought turbulence to the country's health care sector.In May, the minister proposed the creation of a single public health insurer. But now he says that merging the two public health insurers, Všeobecná Zdravotná Poisťovňa and Spoločná Zdravotná Poisťovňa, before the adoption of the euro is not such a good idea.

EVENTS COUNTRYWIDE

No BSE in Slovakia so far this year

Anna of Tyrol to be crowned in Bratislava - again

BRATISLAVA's illustrious history as the most important coronation city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire will be on display the weekend of September 1 and 2 as actors in costume fill the Old Town to re-enact the coronation of Anna of Tyrol, the wife of Matthias, King of Hungary and Bohemia.

'I would like to be a humane human being'

WRITER Heinz Jakob Tauber calls himself a Slovak Jew - even though he was born in Vienna, spent his childhood in the town of Holíč in the Slovak-Moravian border area, wrote his books in Czech, and has been living in Israel for nearly 40 years.