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Quote of the Week:
“Do we want cold and darkness, or do we want to be loved abroad for having stuck to the accession treaties? I choose troubles with the European Commission and European Union [EU], but [also] light and warmth.”
Oberbank enters the Slovak market
ANOTHER foreign-owned bank is set to enter the Slovak market.
Natural snow for the skiers
IT SEEMS like winter has completely settled in Slovakia. Until now, it has been below freezing but mostly dry.
Countrywide Events
Western SLOVAKIA Bratislava CONCERT: LOVERS of pop music can look forward to another a glorious musical night in the Slovak capital. Rick Astley, the famous British singer and 2008 Best Concert Ever MTV Award winner, will perform live in Bratislava on January 23. Together with his best-known single “Never Gonna Give You Up”, the musician will perform his most successful hits since the 1980s. An oldies party is scheduled after the main programme. Rick Astley in Concert will be held at the Pasienky Sports Hall (Trnavská 29), starting at 19:00. Tickets cost between €32.86 (Sk990) and €39.83 (Sk1,200). For more information, call 02/16-186 or 02/5443-37 15.
Kubiš stays on for crisis
JÁN Kubiš, the foreign affairs minister, is to stay in his post despite Prime Minister Robert Fico agreeing late last year that he would leave to take up a senior job at the United Nations. Kubiš' departure has been postponed at Fico's request, because of the protracted natural gas crisis.
Fico sets out vision
IN AN INTERVIEW for the SITA newswire, Prime Minister Robert Fico expressed his disappointment that the opposition parties refused to join the Declaration of Social Agreement to accept and use the euro in Slovakia.
Reactor ready; not yet reactivated
THE SECOND block of one of Slovakia’s nuclear power plants, which was switched off on the last day of 2008 to meet the country’s obligations towards the European Union, is now only waiting for a word from the government to be reactivated and reconnected to the electricity grid.
Ursine lifestyle revealed
THE FIRST – and, so far, only - bear fitted with a telemetric collar in the Tatra National Park (TANAP) has brought a wealth of new information about Slovakia’s biggest predator, the SITA newswire has reported.
Reaching for the Bohunice gun
THE NAME Jaslovské Bohunice certainly has a ring of familiarity in the European Union: not a particularly positive one, to be sure, but certainly a name that has the potential to make the member states and European commissioners sit up and pay attention.
Slovak advertising goes international
THE TIMES when advertising in Slovakia lagged far behind European and American standards are gone. Advertising agencies claim that recent years have brought international recognition, calling 2008 the most successful year in the history of Slovak advertising.
Inflation slowed in December
THE INFLATION rate, measuring the prices of all goods and services, continued slowing at the end of last year. December’s inflation rate fell to 4.4 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) in comparison to November’s y-o-y rate of 4.9 percent, the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic reported.
Toll contract signed, but EC questions unanswered
THE WINNER of one of Slovakia’s most closely-watched multi-billion-crown tenders has signed a contract with the national highway company to provide a nationwide electronic road toll collection system.
Top Slovak media
The Market & Media & Lifestyle – Target Group Index (MML-TGI) survey, conducted by the Median SK agency in licensed cooperation with the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB), took place between March 31 and September 14, 2008. The survey results are combined for the second and third quarters of last year.
Shared history cannot be erased
LAST AUTUMN, Hungarian-Slovak relations were a hot topic in the media and writing about positive relations was rather unfashionable. But as it turned out, a two-week dispute could hardly shatter centuries of common history.
Slovak ad & media agencies
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The crown slips gently out of use
JANUARY 16, 2009, was when Slovaks finally said good bye to the notes and coins they have used for the past 16 years. From now on it’s euros only instead.
Candidate for ECJ selected
ON JANUARY 9, the Juridical Council of the Slovak Republic elected Daniel Šváby to be their candidate for the position of judge at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxemburg.
Slovakia wins Hopman Cup
TWO SLOVAK tennis professionals have won the 21st annual Hopman Cup in Perth.
Ice wine harvest promises fine vintage
A SLOVAK winemaker is predicting that the Rhine Riesling grapes harvested from the Mužľa hills in Nové Zámky district in the first week of January this year will make very good ice wine.
Goodbye to the great poet
MILAN Rúfus, one of the most significant icons of Slovak poetry, died in Bratislava on January 11, only a month after his 80th birthday.
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