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Mečiar calls Packa outsider
The daily SME released statements of the Chairman of the ruling ĽS-HZD, Vladimír Mečiar, from the weekend when the party's leadership came together. Mečiar attacked Police President Ján Packa who has already been the target of criticism for several days over the recent escape of the convict Roman Červenka who is suspected of having committed a bank robbery in Bratislava. Mečiar said that Packa was considered an outsider with an incredible career at the Office for Protection of Constitutional Officials where he had operated before he took the top police job.
Still searching for priest's murderer after 20 years
The daily SME writes that the Nation's Memory Institute (UVVM) has offered documents on the brutal murder of priest Štefan Polák twenty years ago to the Prosecutor General.
Mečiar blocked Mikuš's SMER-SD entry
The Hospodárske noviny writes that LS-HZDS leader Vladimír Mečiar's statements during the weekend worsened the position of Tibor Mikuš, who left the party after more than a decade.
Defence Minister Kašický resigns
Defence Minister František Kašický, a nominee of the ruling Smer party, announced that he will submit his resignation to the president on January 30 over sharply criticised, multi-billion-crown tenders that violated procurement rules.
Different vote, same result
PRIME Minister Robert Fico has survived a second attempt to have him fired after an all-night session of parliament.
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Slovak National Gallery celebrates 60th anniversary
THE SLOVAK National Gallery (SNG) will celebrate its 60th birthday this summer, but in spite of this advanced age, it is not planning to retire, the SITA newswire wrote. Instead, during this jubilee year it plans a facelift for its Bratislava building. It is also busy organising several surprises for the public, to be held in all five of its exhibition premises across Slovakia: Bratislava, the Ladislav Medňanský Gallery in Strážky, Zvolen Castle, the Ľudovít Fulla Gallery in Ružomberok, and the Gallery of Naive Art in Pezinok.
More people are reading Nota Bene magazine
As Jaro Šipoš from the Nota Bene magazine told the SITA newswire, this magazine with a circulation of 42,000 copies, which has been on the market for seven years, is bought daily by 1,200 people. Most copies are sold at the beginning of each month. The magazine is written by volunteer journalists who are paid only symbolically, and is distributed through homeless "paperboys", who buy one copy for Sk15 and sell it for Sk30 - the profit belongs to them.
Credit financing might dip
WITH the recent global credit crunch applying pressure on the financing of deals, experts say the Private Equity sector in Slovakia is facing a tougher environment. This could turn some investors more conservative, but, so far, private equity players in Slovakia don't seem to be changing their investment plans.
Ski resort eludes Banská Štiavnica
IT HAS been an unusually foggy winter in Banská Štiavnica. Instead of the usual deep snow, sharp cold and clear skies, a freezing mist has gripped the historic town and the forested slopes of the Štiavnické vrchy.
Tailor-made programmes at TUKE
THE ADMINISTRATORS at the Technical University in Košice (TUKE) know that their school plays a role in the development of industry in Slovakia, according to rector Anton Čižmár.
The Netherlands: HSP HUYGENS programme
The prestigious HSP Huygens Programme is open to excellent students from all countries of the world. It is aimed at talented students who want to come to the Netherlands in the final phase of their Bachelor's studies or during their Master's studies.
NGOs are maturing, but still face obstacles
THE NON-GOVERNMENTAL sector in Slovakia has come a long way over the past 15 years. After some growing pains, the organisations, associations and societies have become more transparent and more focused on society's needs.
Most lucrative land in Bratislava sold
THE FIGHT for the most lucrative land in the capital is over. Centrade, which belongs to the private equity group Penta, has acquired it from the state-owned heating company Bratislavská Teplárenská for Sk1.2 billion (€35.4 million), the Nový Čas daily wrote.
Slovakia faces multi-billion arbitration
A PRIVATE health insurer is demanding Sk15 billion (€447.8 million) from the Slovak government and threatening to take Slovakia to court over a law that bans private health insurers from keeping their profits.
European charlemagne youth prize competition
The European Parliament and the Foundation of the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen invite young people from all the EU Member States to participate in a competition on EU development, integration and European identity issues.
Turčianske Teplice spa
TURČIANSKE Teplice is one of the oldest Slovak spas. People have been visiting its hot springs since very early times. King Sigismund was one of the most prominent visitors. In 1432 he and his assemblage put up tents at a local meadow and bathed in the springs.
West is best for school, economist says
WHEN Czechoslovakia broke up in 1993, Ján Fidrmuc was about to finish his studies at the University of Economics in Bratislava. He was not particularly eager to live in an independent Slovakia - even less so with Vladimír Mečiar as prime minister, he says. Leaving the country seemed to be the best option for a combination of political and professional reasons.
OSCE joins the chorus of press code critics
THE ORGANISATION for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has joined the choir of critics of a recent revision to Slovakia's press code. OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklós Haraszti has asked the Slovak government to withdraw the bill from parliament and said that his office was ready to provide recommendations on how to improve it. Slovak government officials were quick to dismiss the OSCE criticism, saying the organisation was wrongly informed about the bill, which the cabinet passed on January 9. Culture Minister Marek Maďarič, whose ministry has nurtured the draft code since its inception, said that the legislation isn't moving.
Creating cultures of democracy
that hunger for the attention of the non-governmental sector in many post-communist countries, said Debra L. Schultz, a New York-based consultant and analyst who has spent the past decade supporting NGOs through her work as a programme director at the Soros Foundation.
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