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Single toll tickets for transiting truckers to continue until end of January 2011
Truck drivers will be allowed to pay for Slovakia’s road tolls with one-off tickets until January 2011, road-toll provider SkyToll spokesperson Lenka Lendacká informed the TASR newswire on June 26.
New amusement park will be built in Bojnice in 2011
A new amusement park is set to be constructed in Bojnice in Trenčín Region in 2011, with Kastor company as the project developer, the TASR newswire reported.
SaS party to file criminal complaint over alleged bribe to destabilise coalition
Representatives of the Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party made a decision to file a criminal complaint on Monday, June 28, linked to a multi-million bribe allegedly offered to future SaS MP Igor Matovič in an attempt to destabilise the emerging coalition, SaS spokesperson Tatiana Tóthová told the TASR newswire on June 25. Matovič himself said earlier on the same day that a friend who spoke to him about the offer came over to him on Thursday (June 24) evening, apologised and said that it “was only a joke”.
Radičová to lead the next government
IT TOOK ten days for Robert Fico to admit that his party had not won the parliamentary election, despite the 35 percent of the vote which Smer received on June 12. The centre-right parties categorically refused to hold any official coalition talks with Fico and remained faithful to their pre-election promises to not enter a government with Smer.
Building from a strong and broad base
THE NETHERLANDS remains an important economic partner for Slovakia despite the negative impacts of the global economic downturn. The trade volumes on both sides of the balance have been continuously growing and so has the volume of investment into Slovakia from the Netherlands, even though the crisis has temporarily curbed that inflow.
Institutions of Belgium in Slovakia
The Embassy of Belgium in Slovakia
New book examines national populism
THIS AUTUMN, local municipal elections will round out the national cycle of presidential, regional, European and national parliamentary races. They are likely to offer proof positive that twanging the nationalist string still carries the power to win votes, as it did back in the 19th and the 20th centuries.
Mammoth tax shortfall
A LONG-DELAYED forecast about Slovakia’s overall tax revenues for 2010 is now out and it has a frontal blow that will generate a huge headache for the future centre-right government: this year the state will collect €1 billion less in income and payroll taxes than the outgoing government of Robert Fico had originally projected.
Belgium's EU presidency is ready with its priorities
PIERRE Lazareff, the editor of a French daily newspaper, once said: One cannot get the front page with a headline like “Today, all trains arrived on schedule!” He was right, of course. Particularly in the popular press, business as usual is no news. Only what is spectacular is worth printing: accidents, calamities, catastrophes. Also, readers often seem to prefer lamenting to rejoicing, doom-laden scenarios to rosy predictions.
Slovak gets Olympiad eco-gold
JAROSLAV Ferenc, 17, a student of the Secondary Grammar School of Vojtech Mihálik in Sereď, western Slovakia, has won first place in the International Environment Scientific Project Olympiad – INESPO and received a gold medal as well as a cash award of €500.
A time of promises
MADAME Transparency is what Iveta Radičová, Slovakia’s next prime minister, might be called if the centre-right quartet of parties which will govern Slovakia for the next four years really keeps its anti-corruption promises.
Nest camera reveals the lives of Slovakia's golden eagles
SINCE THE beginning of June, online viewers have been able to study at first hand the habits of a family of golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) through a unique camera installed in the birds’ nest in the Western Tatras.
Some companies with Belgian capital in Slovakia
Bekaert, www.bekaert.com
Roma vote-buying suspicions aired
THE UNION of Roma in Slovakia is convinced that political parties bought thousands of Roma votes in the June 12 general election, mainly in central and eastern Slovakia, the Sme daily reported.
Bar association gets new president
THE NEW presidium of the Slovak Bar Association has unanimously elected Tomáš Borec president, bringing an end to the term of long-serving President Štefan Detvai, the SITA newswire reported.
The Netherlands: General facts
Political system: Constitutional monarchy
Obranný val
THE CRISIS shield, the rescue package, the euro-region bailout, the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism, the €750-billion bazooka. While Europe seems to be struggling with how best to coin the financial tool devised to keep the common European currency safe, Slovakia has it settled – “obranný val”, the defensive bulwark. Unfortunately, the linguistic consensus is not matched by a political one.
Audacious ambitions
THE NEXT four years will not be an easy ride for the quartet of centre-right parties. The Slovak Democratic and Christian Union (SDKÚ), the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) and Most-Híd are punching their ticket on the parliamentary train with some audacious ambitions.
Some companies with Dutch capital in Slovakia
AAA Auto, www.aaaauto.sk
Prudence defeated populism in Slovak elections
GOOD news from Europe is hard to come by these days. Slovakia has produced some. It’s about sound economic policies that can win an election against spineless populism.
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