Archive of articles - October 2007, page 2

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State sticks to roadmap for highway builds

THE STATE is still insisting on its most ambitious road infrastructure project ever - building 151 kilometres of highways and dual carriageways using the public-private partnership (PPP) model - despite the Finance Ministry's warning that 95 kilometres would be more realistic.

Eurostat statement leaves Slovakia in the dark

EUROSTAT has spoken. However, the EU statistics authority has said less than Slovakia hoped to hear.Eurostat has asked Slovakia to inflate its general government deficit for 2006 by 0.3 percentage points to 3.69 percent of the GDP, requesting that the country include the performance of the public service Slovak Radio and Slovak Television in the general deficit.What the country has not yet been told is whether the performance of the National Highway Company should be calculated into the general government deficit as well.

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A lens on modernity

IN THE current photography exhibit at The Guggenheim Museum in New York, Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945, photomontages of nude women catapulting through the air, rigidly aligned skeletons and tanks on the move are the most revealing symbols of interwar uncertainty.

Local players are strong

THE FACT that international developers did not include Slovakia in their plans a couple of years ago has helped the Slovak players build a strong position on the local market, said Luděk Sekyra, president of the Sekyra Group board of directors.The Sekyra Group, a Czech development and real estate company, has entered Slovak market relatively recently. The Slovak Spectator spoke to Sekyra about why it is interesting to be in the Slovak real estate market.

Public media set to share new digs

SLOVAKIA'S public broadcasters will share a new home in Bratislava by 2013, the government has decided.The government approved the Culture Ministry's plan to move Slovak Television (STV) and Slovak Radio (SRo) into a new building on October 24.

Most Slovaks oppose Hlinka Act

MORE than half of Slovakia's citizens are not in favour of the proposed act recognising Andrej Hlinka for his role in establishing Slovak statehood, a recent public opinion poll has found.The survey, conducted by the Focus agency on behalf of the Institute for Public Affairs, found that 54 percent of Slovaks definitely wouldn't support the act, or would prefer not to support it, the TASR newswire wrote.Another 25 percent of respondents would support or would prefer to support the act, while 21 percent didn't know.

Canada: Scholarship for university researchers

The perils of memory loss

THE FALL of autocratic regimes never brings hope for the overnight purification of society. In the shining light of change, much more survives from the old regime than people realise. There is no clear-cut dividing line between past and present; there is only a long and traumatic transition.

The aroma of history, with a focus on the taste

BRATISLAVA NATIVE Denisa Priadková gets misty-eyed when she recalls the city's pre-war café culture, which put it on par with its neighbours Vienna and Budapest.Communism forced that tradition to end, she says, and as a result, far too many of the cafés in Bratislava today value style over substance.

Parliament agrees to reopen district courts

Kia gets another billion-crown subsidy

Shopping malls and skyscrapers on the rise

Real estate agencies use new price mapA NEW property "price map" introduced on October 9 by the National Association of Slovak Real Estate Agencies (NARKS) is already helping companies that deal with real estate activities.The list was created by combining complex price data from NARKS with detailed information from more than 850 contributors that are active on the real estate market, the SITA newswire wrote.

Five architectural projects that think outside of the box

SLOVAK architecture has its own Oscars: the CE.ZA.AR awards, handed out by the Slovak Chamber of Architects.One of these awards went to a team of architects that has given new hope to an old industrial building to serve as a centre for design.

Finance Ministry names euro website developer

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