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Austria to pay for Roma education in Košice
Over €6 million will be paid by Austria for two projects of Roma education in the Košice region. The Austrian ambassador, Helmut Wessely, the project manager of the Austrian Agency for European Integration and Development (AEI), Alois Machalek, and the president of the Košice Region (KSK), Zdenko Trebuľa, signed a cooperation memorandum on May 5, the SITA newswire reported.
New Holocaust findings about Sereď concentration camp presented
The Holocaust Documentation Centre (DSH) and the Slovak National Archive (SNA) have presented research results on May 5 that further document the Holocaust in Slovakia. Historians presented lists with the names of about 2,700 people who were imprisoned in the Sereď concentration camp from November 19, 1944 until March 30, 1945, the TASR newswire wrote.
State forestry company to get €67 million in financial assistance
State-run forestry company Lesy SR should receive repayable financial assistance of €67 million from the state to help it overcome the economic and financial crisis, according to document submitted by the Economy Ministry for interdepartmental review. The money would be released from state assets and Lesy SR would repay it over a period of ten years, with the first installment being deferred until 2012, the SITA newswire reported.
Analysts say it was time for Environment Minister Chrbet to resign
It was high time for PM Robert Fico to call on the Environment Minister Ján Chrbet from the Slovak National Party (SNS) to resign, political scientist Miroslav Kusý told the SITA newswire. In his opinion, the dismissal of Chrbet will not threaten the coalition because the coalition is based on other grounds: power distribution. According to Kusý, there may be a bit of a scandal but the coalition will survive that.
Robert Fico calls on environment minister to resign
ANOTHER minister nominated by the Slovak National Party (SNS) is to lose his job. Environment Minister Ján Chrbet is the second SNS minister to be forced out over a dubious public contract in less than a month. Prime Minister Robert Fico announced on May 5 that Chrbet would go after failing to observe his ultimatum to disclose details of a controversial contract to sell emissions quotas.
Environment Minister proposes cancelling emissions quota sale
Slovak Environment Minister Ján Chrbet has proposed that Slovakia withdraw from the contract in which it sold excess greenhouse gas emissions quotas to the US-based Interblue Group last year, the SITA newswire wrote.
Žilina factory connected to SNS’s Slota gets building permit
Construction of a plant for production of styrofoam insulation in Žilina may now proceed as the company, Slovben, which is connected to the children of the Slovak National Party (SNS) leader Ján Slota and which began construction without a building permit, has now been granted one, the SITA newswire wrote.
Slovak tourist coming home from Mexico does not have A/H1N1 flu
A Slovak citizen who was hospitalised with a fever at a clinic in Prague after his return from Mexico on May 3 is not infected with the A/H1N1 influenza virus. Laboratory tests ruled out its presence, the Slovak Health Ministry's spokesperson Zuzana Čižmáriková informed the SITA newswire.
Conference celebrates achievements of Slovak General M.R. Štefánik
General Milan Rastislav Štefánik was the chief driving force of the idea of forming a Slovak democratic nation for the first time in contemporary history, said Foreign Minister Milan Lajčák at the opening of a two-day international conference on Štefánik’s contributions to Slovakia and Europe, reported the SITA newswire.
Companies report reduced spending on new hardware/software
The most widely seen impact of the global economic crisis on IT investments in enterprises is restriction on purchase of new hardware and software and more efficient use of technological solutions, according to a survey conducted by the TNS agency, reported the TASR newswire.
Public Procurement Office proposes tighter controls
Tightening of checks carried out by Slovak authorities in the process of allocating EU funds and removal of unnecessary formalities are some of the measures designed to eliminate possible future shortcomings in public procurement, according to a report by Slovakia's Public Procurement Office (ÚVO), the TASR newswire wrote. “The audits by the European Commission (EC) and the European Court of Auditors (ECA) performed within the 2004-06 programme period found errors on the part of public procurers during the process,” wrote ÚVO in the report which will be discussed by the government cabinet at its upcoming session on Wednesday, May 6.
Up to 240,000 Slovaks working in other EU countries
The number of Slovaks working in other EU member states has stabilised at between 230,000 and 240,000 persons since Slovakia joined the European Union five years ago, according to an estimate provided for the TASR newswire by Peter Zeman from the Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Office (ÚPSVAR) on May 3.
Slovak tourist returning from Mexico hospitalised as precaution
One of 33 Slovaks returning from Mexico and arriving at Prague's Ruzyně international airport on Sunday, May 3 was hospitalised in that city with a suspicion of having the A/H1N1 influenza, Public Health Office (ÚVZ) spokesperson Lenka Šramková told the TASR newswire on May 3.
Scandals can change business practices
THE REPUTATION of some global companies is again seriously damaged. The current crisis is a result of the activities of greedy investors who created non-transparent products which were not regulated by anyone. Media compete in revealing unethical practices by top managers which, along with public pressure created by such revelation, forces healthy discussion and self-examination. Business conduct has been in urgent need of such discussion because it needs to change now, just as it has changed several times in the past.
Bratislava sights host thousands of visitors
GOOD spring weather, but also the promise of special events at almost one hundred venues in the Slovak capital – all for free – attracted thousands of local and foreign visitors over the April 25-26 weekend. The motto of the event, entitled Days of Open Doors of the Local Administration, was Bratislava for All.
Job fairs in Slovakia
Job & Internship Fair in Košice, organised by the AmericanChamber of Commercewww.amcham.sk
Food retailers' margins to be regulated
A GROUP of governing coalition MPs has decided that food retailers in Slovakia are making too much money, that shops charging the highest price which customers are willing to pay is “perverse”, and that profits from selling food need to be curbed.
Quote of the Week
“If he fails to answer that, his head will fall,”
Smallest zoo opens for 2009
THE SMALLEST zoo in Slovakia, in Spišská Nová Ves, opened its summer season on April 21. Right from the first day, visitors were able to see the latest acquisitions and newborns.
INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS IN SLOVAKIA
Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family (MPSVR)www.employment.gov.skMinister: Viera Tomanová
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