Archive of articles - September 2007, page 5

Inflation on track for euro

SLOVAKIA started meeting the most feared criteria for adopting the European Union currency in August, when the country's inflation dipped thanks to cheaper clothing and food.

Jobless rate hits all-time low

Motor fuel prices up

Slanec

THE RUINS of Slanec Castle are in the Abov District in southeastern Slovakia. The castle dates back to the period just after the Ottoman invasion in the 13th century. At that time, a large number of stone castles were erected across what is now Slovakia as protection from Asian marauders.

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Tomanová seen as least competent

MOST Slovaks think Viera Tomanová, the embattled Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and the Family, is the least competent member of the current cabinet.

Passports getting biometric facelift

AUTHORITIES will soon start issuing travel documents that will not only reduce the chance of passport forgeries, but also bring Slovaks one step closer to European Union standards and visa-free travel to the United States.

Smer's popularity slips below 40 percent

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Income tax cuts an unlikely economic solution

TAX cuts might be a tempting political gambit for the country's opposition, but it is very unlikely that attempts to reduce income taxes would get through the parliament, tax professionals say.

US fighter pilots end training in Slovakia

More trucking to go through Bratislava

Speculation over presidential race heats up

Diplomat gets NATO medal for Kosovo work

Slovak art that bridges the decades

A NEW exhibit at the Bratislava City Gallery (GMB) examines Slovak art before and after the Velvet Revolution through the work of seventeen renowned Slovak visual artists.The exhibit is Dreams Intersect Reality: Slovak Visual Artists in their Own Words, which opened on September 19, and its curator is Lee Karpiscak.

Large foreign companies offer most perks

Graphic anti-abortion billboards ruled unethical

AN ANTI-ABORTION cam-paign that unfurled a graphic photo of a mutilated fetus across hundreds of billboards and posters has met with fierce protests and a reprimand from the country's advertising council.The campaign, called Right to Live, flooded Slovakia with billboards showing a headless, bloody, 11-week-old fetus with visible limbs, in the palm of an adult.

Handle history with care

POLITICIANS rarely make good historians. They neither have the emotional distance nor the independence to handle historical figures, who are like brittle skeletons that might break if touched with haste.