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Vážny: Losses related to public procurement require changed terms
Transport, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Ľubomír Vážny (Smer-SD) said on October 21 that prolonging the public procurement process could – and in the case of the procurement of electronic toll system undubtedly has – lead to considerable economic damage.
Hrušovský asks Fico never to submit adoption treaty for ratification
Prime Minister Robert Fico said he does not support the idea of homosexual couples having the right to adopt a child, so he will not support steps that would enable this in Slovakia, the prime minister’s spokesperson told the TASR newswire on October 21.
British Queen to unveil Iron Curtain memorial at Devín
Queen Elizabeth II will take time during her official visit to Slovakia on October 23 to unveil a iron sculpture by Slovak artist Milan Lukáč close to Devín Castle, near Bratislava. The sculpture, which is 3.1 metres high, 1.6 metres wide and weighs almost a ton, represents the former Iron Curtain, and will be placed at the spot where a barbed-wire border fence with Austria used to stand. The sculpture contains plaques with two quotes by Winston Churchill, who coined the term Iron Curtain in a speech in 1946, along with information about the unveiling. "It's a unique chance for an artist, a great honour and an amazing opportunity, one that appears once in a lifetime," Lukáč said.
Selected prices up by 0.3 percent since beginning of October
The price of selected goods and services went up 0.3 percent in the first 10 days of October, the Slovak Statistics Office reported on October 20.
Volkswagen Slovakia has not laid off regular employees yet
Volkswagen Slovakia's Bratislava facility hasn’t laid off employees in response to the economic downturn and global financial crisis yet.
Coalition: Urbáni is not our joint candidate for EU Commissioner
ĽS-HZDS vice-chair Milan Urbáni is not the joint coalition candidate for the post of EU commissioner, it was announced after the government session on October 20.
Bárdos: SMK MPS did nothing wrong
Gyula Bárdos, the head of ethnic-Hungarian SMK party’s parliamentary caucus, has strongly denied that members of the ehtnic-Hungarian SMK party did anything wrong by attending the 'Forum of MPs of the Carpathian Basin' (FPKK) last month.
Governing coalition accuses SMK MPs of violating constitution
The three-member ruling coalition in Slovakia wants parliament to censure the MPs from the ethnic-Hungarian SMK party who participated in the September session of the Forum of Hungarian Deputies of the Carpathian Basin in Budapest.
Ruling coalition is drafting a bill on proving origin of personal wealth
The ruling coalition is working drafting a law on proving of origin of personal wealth in a form that would not be ruled unconstitutional.
Pension fund companies oppose reopening second pillar
The Association of Pension Fund Management Companies (ADSS) rejects the planned reopening of the second pillar of the pension saving scheme for the second time.
SASS: Investing in open-end mutual funds is safe
Investing in open-end mutual funds is very safe, Roman Vlček, chairman of the board of trustees of the Slovak Association of Asset Management Companies (SASS), said on October 20. The SASS would regret people withdrawing their money from portfolios just because they do not comprehend the current financial crisis.
SND opens season with premiers
The principal ballet of Slovakia, the Slovak National Theater (SND), is opening its new season with the premiere of Ivan the Terrible, the ballet by Sergei Prokofiev.
Quote of the Week:
“It’s like when someone gives you a lift. These days it is common for people to have helicopters.”
Down-to-earth muses meet in Bratislava
AMERICAN philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said “only poetry inspires poetry”. This is likely the reason why a score of poets from different generations meet in the Slovak capital each year to talk and, most importantly, to listen to one another.
Slovaks go for euro wallets
SOME Slovaks have already started preparing for the new currency by buying new wallets that contain special pockets for euro coins.
Turks to restore dignity to graves
FOR DECADES, the graves of Turkish soldiers killed during World War I have been scattered around Nitra, where a former army field hospital was located during the war.
St John of Nepomuk
SCULPTURES of saints are scattered throughout Slovak city squares and alongside country roads. John of Nepomuk is the saint most commonly portrayed, as is the case in all the countries once ruled by the Habsburg Monarchy.
Slovakia backs crisis action
SLOVAKIA supports the joint actions by eurozone countries to calm the financial crisis: this was the message that Prime Minister Robert Fico delivered to a special summit of eurozone leaders, who met on October 12 and 13 in Paris to ponder the best responses to the financial turmoil. Slovakia, which will join the eurozone on January 1, 2009 was invited for the first time to the group’s meeting, which offered some respite to edgy markets.
Pride came before fall
In the end, say people who know him, it was his ego that was the downfall of Michal Hrbáček. It was ego that encouraged him to build a massive wall on his land in Bratislava’s Vinohrady district without a building permit, earning him a Sk3 million fine. It was ego that led him to take control of companies by force, and damn the consequences. And it was ego that prevented him from retiring on his millions, kept him active among the country’s shadowy police gangs – and in early September earned him a bunk in a jail cell (see related article Phone call lands former SIS officer in hot water).
Dinič brothers terrorized Bratislava businessmen
Like two thunderous concussions, the murders of the Dinič brothers a decade ago, in the summer and fall of 1998, capped a wave of mafia killings under the third Vladimír Mečiar government.
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