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Malinová won’t be sent to hospital
DOCTORS will not be able to forcibly hospitalise Hedviga Malinová Žáková in order to investigate what her mental condition might have been during an attack which allegedly took place in 2006, according to a ruling by the Nitra Regional Court, the Sme daily reported.
Danish food: Meatballs (frikadeller)
Ingredients and preparation.
Innovations in banking
BANKING has always been a fairly conservative business, however it does not shy away from implementing high-end technology, and the fast-paced development in electronic and mobile technologies has been making its mark on banking. Michal Grajciar, head of electronic channels and payments at Slovenská Sporiteľňa (SLSP) bank and Marína Smolková, spokesperson of Tatra Banka talked about innovations, implementation of technological novelties and security.
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Judges fired from council
JUDGES Ľudmila Babjaková, Jozef Vozár and Alexander Brostl were only allowed to serve just over a year and a half of their five-year terms in Slovakia’s top judicial body, the Judicial Council. The government of Robert Fico has recalled the trio, whom the local media described as critics of the president of Slovakia’s Supreme Court, Štefan Harabin, long before their term was completed, based on a proposal by Justice Minister Tomáš Borec, a non-partisan nominee to the Smer-dominated cabinet.
Kažimír to represent Slovakia at ESM
FINANCE Minister Peter Kažimír will become Slovakia’s top representative on the board of governors of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the Finance Ministry announced on September 25, as reported by the TASR newswire.
Slovak man accused of poison deaths
A 42-YEAR old Slovak man has been accused of knowingly mixing the deadly methanol cocktail that has killed 26 Czechs and resulted in a ban on the sale of Czech spirits with alcohol content of over 20 percent in Slovakia. The Czech police reported on September 24 that investigators had tracked down the source of the methanol.
Adoptions furore continues
MULTIPLE cases of Slovak children taken into foster care by social services in the UK initially provoked negative reactions among Slovaks towards the British authorities. But as more details have emerged via the Slovak media, criticism has come to be directed at the Slovak child protection authorities too.
Quote of the week
“What should I explain to you? I did not grant myself the title.”
Danish food: Marinated cucumber salad (agurkesalat)
Ingredients and preparation.
Slovak anti-virus firm focuses on smartphones
IN THE 1980s few could have foreseen the threats that computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other malicious software would pose to computers and similar devices, and the data stored on them. Since then, writing malware has developed into cybercrime, a sophisticated business whose primary goal is to make money illegally. Alongside cybercrime, demand for a new industry to help computer users detect and eliminate these threats has emerged.
Lighting up the mines
THIS POSTCARD from the beginning of the 20th century proves how strong the mining tradition and the self-confidence of the town of Banská Štiavnica was. It was published by the Štiavnica postcard publisher Joerges. It is probably a replica of an original artwork dating back to the 19th century.Let us look more closely at the motif and remind ourselves of the town’s mining history.
Countrywide Events
Western SLOVAKIA
Learning to stand
A BUNCH of adolescent boys were sitting on Bratislava trolleybus number 202, chuckling as they checked out a female celebrity the age of their mothers on their smartphone, while several elderly people were forced to stand for want of seats. After a younger woman offered her seat to one of the old ladies she turned to the physically fit boys, asking them to do the same. At that point their schoolteacher stepped in and told her confused co-travellers that she had ordered the boys to remain seated because the kids, whom she was escorting, were easily distracted and she could hardly fit 11 boys into an ambulance if something were to happen to one of them. Her response instantly generated an impromptu debate over what some participants called the decay of education and elementary schools’ loss of power to guide and educate.
Banks' aggregate profits shrink
THE SLOVAK banking sector reported after-tax profits of €321.7 million for the first seven months of 2012, a drop of 34.9 percent compared with the same period of 2011. Net interest income dwindled by 1.7 percent to €1.028 billion. Formation of reserves and provisions rose slightly too, but banks attribute the drop in profitability mainly to the introduction of a special bank levy, the SITA newswire wrote.
MPs pass Čaplovič's schools changes
EDUCATION Minister Dušan Čaplovič has begun administering his remedy for the ills of the country’s schools system. He diagnosed these, shortly after being appointed in early April, as: a lack of qualified labour to work in some industrial sectors; an overly complicated system of school financing; and too many young people studying humanities subjects. The minister’s cure, in the form of a new law approved by MPs on September 20, includes, among other things, stricter conditions for the admission of students to secondary grammar schools – known to Slovaks as gymnasiums; these tend to be the most academic schools and are viewed as natural feeders into the university system – as well as new powers for Slovakia’s eight regional governments (VÚCs) to decide on the number of first-grade classes that can be opened at such schools.
Smer still on top, opinion poll finds
Had a general election been held in early September, the governing Smer party would have come first with public support amounting to 42 percent, according to a poll by the Focus agency that was released on Thursday, September 27. The double-digit threshold would also have been cleared by the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH), on 11.7 percent, a rise of 2.3 percentage points compared to the previous month.
State revenue forecast for 2013 cut by another €233 million
The state will collect €233 million less in tax and levy revenues next year in comparison to projections included in the state budget draft for 2013, according to an updated forecast by the Finance Ministry on Thursday, September 27.
OĽaNO declares war on nudity in Slovak daily press
Opposition party Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OĽaNO) is set to launch a campaign against erotic images appearing in the daily press by submitting a law to ban them from newspaper pages, OĽaNO MP Branislav Škripek said on Thursday, September 27.
Police ready to maintain order during ‘cleaning’ of Roma settlement
Police will use all legal means to maintain order and prevent any crimes from taking place during a so-called ‘cleaning’ operation planned for Saturday by right-wing activists at a Roma settlement in Krásnohorské Podhradie in south-east Slovakia, Police Corps President Tibor Gašpar said on Thursday, September 27
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