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SkyEurope planes seized in Bucharest and Paris
After Orly Airport in Paris seized an airliner belonging to Slovak low-cost air carrier SkyEurope Airlines on Monday, June 22, the airport in Bucharest, Romania, did the same with an additional two SkyEurope aeroplanes on June 23. The two planes in Bucharest were later allowed to depart.
Nigerian smuggling drugs in stomach arrested at Bratislava Airport
A 31-year-old Nigerian national was arrested at M.R. Štefanik Airport in Bratislava on Tuesday, June 23, on suspicion – later proved to be well-founded – that he was smuggling drugs in his stomach.
OECD expects 5 percent contraction in Slovakia’s GDP this year
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which groups the world’s main industrialised economies, expects Slovakia's gross domestic product (GDP) to contract by 5 percent this year.
Request for report on emissions quotas sale fails by one vote in Slovak parliament
An opposition call for a report from the environment minister on how his department conducted its apparently low-priced sale of greenhouse-gas emissions quotas was debated in Parliament on Wednesday, June 24.
Regional Office of UN Population Fund will not be based in Slovakia
The Slovak government has reversed an earlier decision to offer to host the Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Number of jobless graduates rises in Slovakia as job vacancies fall
The number of graduates without work is rising in Slovakia as the crisis reduces the number of job vacancies, it was announced on Tuesday, June 23.
Lajčák and Wessely meet in Bratislava to discuss mutual relations
Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák on June 23 met Austrian Ambassador to Slovakia Helmut Wessely.
Bratislava Region named as worst in Slovakia for illegal drugs
Alcohol is the most widely used drug in Slovakia, followed by amphetamines and marijuana, which are widespread among secondary-school students, while heroine is somewhat in retreat, a conference entitled ‘Drug Dependency in Bratislava Region’ was told on June 23.
Slovak President accepts Harabin’s resignation, new justice minister due in a week
President Ivan Gašparovič on Tuesday, June 23, accepted the resignation of Justice Minister Štefan Harabin after his election as chairman of the Supreme Court on Monday (June 22).
Customs officers seize 400,000 cigarettes
Slovak customs officers have seized around 400,000 cigarettes with Ukrainian duty stamps and detained three persons with Ukrainian passports near the village of Klčov in Levoča district in eastern Slovakia.
SDKÚ says €100 million savings in health sector are realistic
The opposition Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ) party said on June 24 that it has drawn up plans to save €66 million to €100 million in the health sector.
Diplomats visit special schools in Banská Bystrica and Banská Štiavnica
British Ambassador to Slovakia Michael Roberts, Irish Ambassador Kathryn Coll, Romanian Ambassador Florin Vodita, Hungarian Ambassador Antal Heizer, and US Embassy Chargé d'Affaires Keith Eddins will, on Wednesday, June 24, visit special elementary schools in Banská Štiavnica (Banská Bystrica Region), and Banská Bystrica, the US Embassy in Slovakia announced on June 23.
Stefan Harabin is officially appointed Slovakia’s Supreme Court president
Former Justice Minister Štefan Harabin has become the new President of the Slovak Supreme Court. President Ivan Gašparovič accepted Harabin's resignation from the post of Justice Minister and based on the proposal of the Judicial Council, which elected Harabin to the post on June 22, he appointed him to the post of president of the Supreme Court for a five-year term in office, the SITA newswire wrote.
Chinese Embassy disputes accusations about attacks on demonstrators
Employees of the Chinese Embassy were not among the people who attacked the human rights activists on Hodzovo Square during the visit of the Chinese president Hu Jintao to Bratislava on June 18, the first secretary of the Chinese Embassy in Bratislava, Gao Hong, told the TASR newswire.
SkyEurope aeroplane confiscated at Orly airport
The management of the low-cost airline SkyEurope, which was granted bankruptcy protection by a district court in Bratislava on June 22, had been assuring its customers that the situation will not affect them in any way.
Russia-Ukraine gas dispute could deliver new gas crisis to Slovakia
The Slovak Economy Ministry confirmed on June 22 that Slovakia may well face another natural gas crisis if Russia cuts all Europe-bound gas supplies via what it sees as its undisciplined customer Ukraine, the SITA newswire reported. The ministry said that Ukraine might fail to meet its payment deal from January 2009 which has a deadline of early July.
Flight attendant is fourth person with A/H1N1 flu in Slovakia
A fourth case of A/H1N1 novel flu infection has been confirmed in Slovakia, TASR was told by Health Ministry spokesperson Zuzana Čižmáriková on June 22. The 24-year-old flight attendant who lives in London was admitted into the Infectious Disease Clinic of the Trnava Faculty Hospital last Friday, one day after coming to Slovakia, with a high temperature and respiration problems. As part of her job, she had visited several countries in the past week.
Large solar power plant could be built near Poltár
A large solar power plant could emerge within the area of the town of Poltár as the Emel Energy company has announced it intends to build it in the Jelšoviny locality on the area of 21 hectares. This would be the biggest solar power plant in Slovakia, the TASR newswire reported.
Slovak Human Rights Centre notes no improvement in court delays
Although no significant human rights violations took place in Slovakia last year, delays in court proceedings could be labelled as chronic infringements of human rights, the executive director of the Slovak National Centre for Human Rights (SNSLP), Anna Zachová, told the TASR newswire on Monday, June 22. "A court dispute lasting six or seven years is not a rare thing. The Centre points to this fact in each of its reports, but unfortunately they (delays) continue to be the case. No improvement (over the past three years) at all has been achieved in this issue," she said while presenting the Centre's report on human rights in Slovakia.
Concerns about free and independent press voiced by US Chargé d’Affaires
IN CENTRAL Europe today members of the press no longer face the prospect of arrest or official censorship and media representatives do not fear government-sanctioned disappearance or murder, as journalists do in many countries, but reporters and their editors sometimes feel they must practice self-censorship when covering certain issues or individuals, Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Bratislava Keith Eddins told a panel discussion on June 19 which focused on the necessity of a free and independent press in a democratic society.
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