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Countrywide Events
Western SLOVAKIA
Slovak firm spans the world – except Slovakia
GROWING up behind the Iron Curtain, Ľuboš Fellner, now 43, chose to go to medical school because it was the area least influenced by communist ideology. But shortly after he graduated, the revolution of 1989 tore down the Iron Curtain and his adventurous spirit led him to discover what was beyond Czechoslovakia’s previously sealed borders – and to enable others to do the same.
The future we want
TWENTY years ago, there was the Earth Summit. Gathering in Rio de Janiero, world leaders agreed on an ambitious blueprint for a more secure future. They sought to balance the imperatives of robust economic growth and the needs of a growing population against the ecological necessity to conserve our planet’s most precious resources — land, air and water. And they agreed that the only way to do this was to break with the old economic model and invent a new one. They called it sustainable development.
Some companies with Italian capital in Slovakia
- Centro Servizi Samorin, www.centrumsluzieb.sk- Generali Slovensko, www.generali.sk- Genertel,www.genertel.sk - Kosit,www.kosit.sk - Magneti Marelli Slovakia,www.magnetimarelli.com - Slovenské Elektrárne,www.seas.sk - UniCredit Bank Slovakia,www.unicreditbank.sk - VÚB,www.vub.sk- ZVL Auto,www.zvlauto.sk
The logger from Terchová
FOR LOGGING to be a traditional job handed down from one generation to the next requires a vast forested area and good rivers on which to transport timber. Many parts of Slovakia fulfil these conditions but it has been the region around the Váh River from Trenčín north, the Hron region, the area of the Slovenské rudohorie mountains, and the region of northern Šariš and Zemplín that have been considered the best for logging.
Ex-postal chief gets huge severance
A SEVERANCE package worth €178,000 that is to be paid to Marcela Hrdá, the former director of Slovak Post is an “outrageous golden parachute” said Transport Minister Ján Počiatek on June 4, reporting that during the tenure of KDH chairman Ján Figeľ as transport minister (2010-12), the ministry had signed a contract with Hrdá leading to this payout, the TASR newswire reported.
Dance festival set for June
THE WELL-KNOWN international dance festival Bratislava v pohybe (Bratislava in Movement) will return to its original time period in June after last year’s 16th season was held in late September and early October.
Danube Wings flies to Venice
+SLOVAK air carrier Danube Wings has been flying from Bratislava and Košice to Venice three times a week since April this year. The new route is operated in cooperation with Italian carrier Megaride Air, making use of the support the latter receives from Venice Airport and from the local government and local businesses in the Venice area, the SITA newswire wrote.
Details on the school-leaving exams
THE EXTERNAL part of Slovakia’s 2012 school-leaving exam was taken by 59,465 students from 754 secondary schools, including 1,081 disabled students.
Ortona exhibits Slovak bookplates
AN EXHIBITION of bookplates called Slovenský EX LIBRIS opened on May 24 in the Italian town of Ortona. The exhibition was prepared by the Slovak Institute in Rome for Ortona’s Mediterranean Museum and Gallery, Museo Ex Libris Mediterraneo that specialises in bookplates in addition to the other artistic forms.
Italy to offer air show, and much more
A CELEBRATION of Italian culture in Slovakia occurs every year during the Dolce Vitaj festival that runs for the entire month of June, but the influence of Italian culture in Slovakia is much wider and can be felt in many more ways – from a good Italian-style coffee through the use of Italian terminology and language in classical music and many operas, to cult movies and Italian architecture and fashion.
Poprad inspired by Italian initiative
POPRAD, a city in the foothills of the High Tatras, is combating the outflow of people from its centre into shopping malls recently built on the outskirts. Seventy shops, restaurants and other facilities, inspired by the Italian Pro Loco scheme, have joined together to create the Pre Mesto (For the City) association to draw people back into the city centre, the Hospodárske Noviny daily wrote in May. The emptying of the city centre has hit almost all facilities there.
Italian firm to supply Honeywell
ITALIAN family firm Travaglini plans to build an industrial unit in the IPZ Záborské industrial park in eastern Slovakia, where it will pack products for Honeywell, a US-based firm. The Italian company plans to buy a hectare of land and construct a unit of about 6,000 square metres. To begin with the firm should employ at least 100 people, the SITA newswire wrote.
Malacky vaccine facility probed
PRIME Minister Robert Fico might halt the construction of a new facility in Malacky that is supposed to produce vaccines in the future because the site did not undergo an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and the permit for the construction was illegal, the TASR newswire reported.
Tolerance or equal rights?
INTOLERANCE can reveal itself in multiple forms, from controlled antipathy through hate speech to physical aggression. But sometimes expressions of intolerance appear in the guise of “personal opinion” which all individuals believe they are entitled to. Racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, homophobia, sexism, and ageism are not just entries in reports about abuse of human rights, with some alarming numbers attached, but also cause widespread personal suffering even in 21st-century societies that claim to respect universal human rights, which no longer assassinate political opponents, and which do not send their citizens to gas chambers.
Elsa Morante prizes awarded
FOR the third time the Italian Cultural Institute in Bratislava awarded prizes bearing the name of Elsa Morante, an Italian writer, in late November 2011. The institute grants three prizes, one of which goes to an Italian film director, another to a Slovak film director, and the last to a translator of Italian literature into Slovak, the TASR newswire wrote.
Self-employed face payroll tax hike
SELF-EMPLOYED people in Slovakia will not get off lightly during the government’s crusade to push the public finance deficit below 3 percent of gross domestic product, as required by the European Union. Labour Minister Ján Richter has proposed that payroll taxes – social and health insurance contributions – by the self-employed will rise, and that the lump-sum allowances that self-employed taxpayers are currently able to deduct from their gross income before calculating tax will be cut as part of the plan.
Slovak driver suffers setback at Salzburgring
After his excellent performance at the 3rd and 4th round of the European Touring Car Cup (ETCC) at the Slovakia Ring in Orechová Potôň in late April, young Slovak racing driver Maťo Homola experienced disappointment at a subsequent round of the ETCC at Austria's Salzburgring on May 20.
Catholic news agency opens branch
THE ITALIAN Roman Catholic news agency SIR Europa opened a branch in the Slovak capital in September last year. It covers events related to the Roman Catholic Church and spiritual life in central and eastern Europe, the SITA newswire reported, citing the Bishops’ Conference of Slovakia.
Unequal education for Roma pupils
A SPECIAL class for children coming from a Roma community or even a separate school building that only has classrooms for Roma students: these are two very specific examples of what international human rights organisations call segregated education in Slovakia, a problem that they charge faces Roma children seeking a public education in many parts of the country.
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