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Danube Wings ready help SkyEurope customers

Slovakia-based airline Danube Wings announced on September 2 that it is ready to dispatch planes to Italy, France and Great Britain to provide alternative transport for people who are currently stranded in those countries in the wake of SkyEurope's bankruptcy late on September 1. SkyEurope's demise also means the end of its Bratislava-Košice flights. Danube Wings has been operating on this route with regular domestic flights since March 2009. TASR

3. sep 2009

Slovak parliamentary committee launches proceedings against Slota

Parliament's committee on incompatibility of functions launched proceedings on Wednesday, September 2, against Slovak National Party leader Ján Slota regarding two complaints made by Transparency International Slovakia (TIS) even though two MPs could not attend the meeting due to a mistake made by the committee's chair, the TASR newswire wrote.

3. sep 2009

Agriculture Minister Becík to meet with HZDS leader today

Agriculture Minister Stanislav Becík from the HZDS party announced after the government session on September 2 that he will meet his party boss Vladimír Mečiar on September 3 to discuss his departure from the ministerial post.

3. sep 2009

EP President suggests bilateral talks on Slovak-Hungarian issues

The European Parliament lacks powers in the area of languages and issues such as the Slovak Language Act may best be solved bilaterally, the President of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, told the Hungarian Parliamentary Chair, Katalin Szili, who had complained that the law violates European laws and that the issue should be debated by the EU parliament on Wednesday, September 2, the TASR newswire wrote. "We believe that this is not a bilateral but rather a European issue. This law is in violation of the Copenhagen Criteria and the (proposed) Lisbon Treaty as well as many other European legal instruments," said Szili as quoted by TASR.

3. sep 2009

Nine Slovaks hospitalised after bus crash in Turkey

Nine Slovak nationals were admitted to hospital following a crash of a Czech coach in Turkey on Tuesday, September 1, with none of them in a life-threatening condition, Slovakia's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Peter Stano told the TASR newswire on Wednesday.

3. sep 2009

Slovak foreign minister visits Sarajevo

Slovakia's foreign minister, Miroslav Lajčák, began a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday, September 1.

2. sep 2009

Coronation festivities to take place on September 4-6

September 4-6 will be when the Slovak capital this year witnesses its customary re-enactment of the coronation of Hungarian kings and queens. The 2009 event will commemorate the coronation of Maria Anna of Spain in 1638, the wife of Ferdinand III.

2. sep 2009

Slovakia celebrates Constitution Day

The Slovak Republic celebrated Constitution Day, a national holiday, on Tuesday, September 1.

2. sep 2009

Slovakia's GDP declines 5.3 percent in second quarter

The speed of contraction in Slovakia's gross domestic product (GDP) has slowed. While in the first quarter of this year, the economy shrank by 5.6 percent, GDP showed a real drop of 5.3 percent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2009, the Slovak Statistics Office has announced, confirming its flash estimate from August.

2. sep 2009

Jobbik blocks roads to border crossings over language law

Around 20 activists from the extreme right-wing Hungarian party the Movement for a Better Hungary–Jobbik blocked roads leading to Slovakia from Komarom and Esztergom in northern Hungary during the afternoon of Tuesday, September 1.

2. sep 2009

SkyEurope declared bankrupt

Slovakia-based low-cost airline SkyEurope cancelled all its flights and declared bankruptcy shortly before midnight on Monday, August 31. Brokers on the Vienna stock exchange, where shares of the airline are traded, were the first to know late Monday evening.

2. sep 2009

Amended State Language Act ‘criminalises’ Hungarian, Csáky tells Dunajská Streda protest

Scores of people gathered at a public demonstration against the State Language Act, which took place in Dunajská Streda (Trnava Region) on Tuesday, September 1.

2. sep 2009

SkyEurope halts all its flights; declares bankruptcy

Slovakia-based, low-cost airline SkyEurope declared bankruptcy shortly before midnight on August 31. Earlier that day, SkyEurope canceled 12 flights bound for a variety of destinations from the airport in Bratislava. The Ruzyne Prague airport said on August 31 that it would halt all the flights of the airline as of September 1 due to unpaid debts of the airline, Sme online and newswire TASR reported.

1. sep 2009

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