Archive of articles - September 2007, page 7

Smer loses favour in September: survey

Chances fading for microwave toll system

Chemko Strážske buys technology to get rid of toxic PCBs

Catholic Church welcomes Health Ministry's reversal

New 300-km, cross-border cycle route in High Tatras

Siamese twins in stable condition

Slovakia's patron saint honoured in Šaštín

Bratislava Cat Show presents new breed

Roma rent-dodgers squat in front of Nové Zámky Town Hall

Slovaks' debt repayment declining: survey

Foreigners control biggest Slovak firms

Motor fuel prices up

Around Slovakia

Euro burdens banks the most

EURO adoption will place the heaviest financial burden on the country's banking sector, according to a top Slovak bank.Slovakia's 16 commercial banks will have to reach the deepest into their pockets and would also suffer great losses if Slovakia's entry to the eurozone gets delayed for any reason.

The lesser of two evils

THE 'LAW of the year', as Prime Minister Robert Fico called the revision to the country's Labour Code, has posed some tough challenges for Slovakia's health care sector.Regulations that limit overtime work mean the country's hospitals are faced with a dilemma: they can either hire new employees, or let physicians and nurses keep exceeding the overtime limit and violate the Labour Code.

US president nominates new ambassador

Debate over school reform swells

THE GOVERNMENT and opposition both agree that Slovakia's education system is in desperate need of reform, but they are proposing very different ways to change it.Former education minister Martin Fronc, an MP for the Christian Democratic Movement Party (KDH), recently submitted to parliament a bill on amending the school law. Meanwhile, the Education Ministry, led by Ján Mikolaj, published its legislative plans for amending the school law on its website.

Cabinet gives money to ailing mining company

Slovakia has representative in Eurojust