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Danube Wings plans new routes to Kiev, Warsaw, Milan and Brussels
Danube Wings, an airline based Bratislava which operates scheduled and charter flights, announced on Tuesday, July 28, that it plans to open several new routes.
Detained SkyEurope plane to remain in France
A plane belonging to Slovakia-based airline SkyEurope will remain detained at Paris Orly Airport, a French court in Creteil ruled on July 28.
Slovak tennis player wins under-16 European championship
Slovak tennis player Filip Horanský won the singles tournament at the European championship for under 16-year-olds in Moscow and he now ranks among players like Swedes Mats Wilander and Stefan Edberg, French players Yannick Noah and Jo-Wilfried Tsong, and Spaniard Tommy Robreda, the website of the Sme daily wrote. “I was happy when I leafed through the bulletin of the championship to find the names of previous winners there,” the young man, coached by Martin Hromec, said after having returned to Slovakia.
Slovakia still may have opportunity to produce nuclear fuel
On July 28, the economic daily Hospodárske Noviny (HN) wrote that the Russian state-run corporation TVEL has not yet made a final decision on the location of its first foreign production plant for nuclear fuel.
SMK admits to past mistakes in Nitra Region governance
Slovakia’s ethnic Hungarian SMK party wants to point out its own mistakes from the past in the lead-up campaign to the local elections in Nitra Region scheduled for November, the chairman of the SMK deputy caucus in the regional parliament, László Forró, told the SITA newswire on July 28.
Industrial producer prices in Slovakia continued fall in June
Prices of industrial products in Slovakia continue declining as data released by the Slovak Statistics Office show that following a 2.4 percent drop of local prices of industrial producers in May, prices were lower by 3.2 percent in June, the SITA newswire wrote. The 7.2-percent year-on-year decrease in prices of industrial manufacturing was the main reason behind the June development.
Slovak police arrest drug dealers, seizing heroin and guns
During the 'Andulka' (budgie) police operation carried out in the Bratislava district of Vrakuňa on July 23, police arrested five people and found about 352 grams of heroin worth €14,200 on the black market, Police Corps president Ján Packa and vice president Michal Kopčík told journalists on July 27, the TASR newswire wrote.
Death rate falling and birth rate rising in Slovakia
The mortality rate in Slovakia fell by 0.2 per thousand to 10/1,000 in 2008 in comparison to the previous year, according to a report released by the Health Ministry on July 27, the TASR newswire reported.
Bank loans in Slovakia pick up in June but remain at low levels
The lending by Slovakia’s banks to corporations increased slightly in June compared to May but were significantly down year-on-year according to an updated report on bank lending released by Slovakia’s central bank (NBS) on July 27, the TASR newswire reported.
Agricultural Minister on weeklong horse-drawn journey across Slovakia
Agriculture Minister Stanislav Becík, from the HZDS political party, is setting out on a week-long journey across Slovakia on July 28 in a horse carriage festooned with banners in support of rural development, ministry spokesperson Adriana Jobbíková told the TASR newswire on July 27. According to the spokesperson, the goal of Becík's journey is to emphasise rural pride in order to maintain rustic traditions and to present the role of agriculture in society today. Becík will meet farmers and attempt to resolve contemporary rural problems. Becík also wants to put an emphasis on healthy nutrition via support of vegetable and animal production and promotion of Slovak products, including direct sales of products from farms. TASR
Slovenská Pospolitosť gets strange recommendation
WHEN the civic association Eurea asked the Officials Protection Office to provide information about the incident between Ján Slota, the leader of the Slovak National Party, and police officer Ľudmila Nováková in the garage of the parliament building in May 2009, the association was quite surprised by the official answer they received.
Slovak film Líštičky to premiere at Venice film festival
A world premiere of Slovak director Mira Fornay's film Líštičky (Little Foxes) will be shown at the 66th international film festival in Venice in September, TASR was told on July 26 by Juraj Buzalka, one of the film's producers.
Slovak Foreign Affairs Ministry behaved unprofessionally says SMK party
The ethnic Hungarian SMK party said on July 24 to the TASR newswire that it believes that the Slovak Foreign Affairs Ministry acted unprofessionally in connection to the stance taken by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on amendments to the Slovak State Language Act. SMK doesn't see it as appropriate that there was a press conference organised at the ministry on July 21 about the language legislation at which time information on confidential negotiations was presented – especially when OSCE High Commissioner for Minorities Kurt Vollebaek was scheduled to meet with a Hungarian delegation the day after.
Moody's revises downward its assessment of Slovakia’s 2009 GDP
Moody's Investors Service said on July 24 that it expects Slovakia's GDP to fall over this year after seeing the country's economic outlook sharply worsen within a short period of time, the TASR newswire reported, with the GDP decline affecting both corporations and households. “Even though Slovak banks were not hit by the first phase of the ongoing global economic crisis due to their limited exposure to crisis-distressed assets and to the bankrupt financial houses, the pressure on banks is building as the crisis spills over into the real economy (goods and services rather than the paper, financial economy),” said Gabriel Kadaši, chief analyst with Moody's, to TASR.
Slovakia has the highest fuel prices in region
Prices of motor fuels are higher in Slovakia compared to neighbouring EU-member countries (Austria, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic), according to data issued by EUROSTAT covering the period up to July 20, the TASR newswire reported on July 24.
Slovaks and Czechs mark brotherhood at Veľká Javorina mountain peak
Over the July 25-26 weekend, Czech and Slovak municipal and regional governments located along the shared border held traditional festivities of brotherhood and togetherness between the nations at Veľká Javorina, the tallest peak of the White Carpathian mountain range, the TASR newswire wrote.
SNS and HZDS planning joint lawsuit against Education Act
Junior governing coalition parties SNS (Slovak National Party) and HZDS (Movement for a Democratic Slovakia) have agreed to file, after the summer recess of parliament, a joint legal challenge against those parts of the Education Act which will allow ethnic minority students to use textbooks with place-names printed in their native language as well as the state language, the TASR newswire wrote.
Economy Ministry reports Slovakia has 7,165 job vacancies
Planned mass layoffs caused – at least in part – by the global economic crisis are endangering 17,827 jobs in Slovakia and in comparison with the previous week, their number grew moderately by 52 positions for the week of July 20-26, the SITA newswire reported.
Slovak citizen with A (H1N1) flu hospitalised in Dublin
On July 27, Slovak dailies Sme, Nový čas and Plus Jeden Deň reported about a Slovak citizen who caught swine flu abroad and is in a serious health condition in Dublin. Sme writes in a story headlined “Our authorities did not know about sick Slovak”" that the health condition of the Slovak man who developed the novel (swine) flu in Ireland is serious.
Slovak towns and villages cry out for help
SLOVAK towns and villages are crying out that if they are not soon given help some municipalities, especially smaller ones, might collapse under the weight of the global economic downturn. The Club of Mayors of Towns of Slovakia says that even if towns and villages manage to hobble through 2009 by making budget cuts and other savings, 2010 will hit them even harder if no change is made to the way that towns and villages are financed.
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