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Teachers consider strike
A 5-PERCENT pay hike will not eliminate the threat of another nationwide teachers’ strike as trade unions of employees of the education sector say they will not settle for less than a 10-percent increase to teachers’ salaries. Finance Minister Peter Kažimír offered a 5-percent increase on October 9, arguing that the state cannot squeeze more than €65 million from its coffers due to the government’s commitment to tame the public finance deficit. Educational institutions at all levels, from kindergartens to universities, have already been forced to close once this year, on September 13, by teachers’ striking for a 10-percent pay increase.
The First Slovak Gymnasium in Revúca celebrated 150th anniversary
The First Slovak Literary Gymnasium in Revúca, which continues the tradition of the first Slovak gymnasium (secondary grammar school) in the municipality then called Veľká Revúca, celebrated its 150th anniversary in mid-September, the SITA newswire wrote.
Danko replaces Slota as SNS chair
JÁN SLOTA no longer chairs the nationalist Slovak National Party (SNS), after 153 of 156 delegates present at a meeting of the party in Žilina elected Andrej Danko to the chairman post. Slota announced his departure after the March general elections in which the party failed to gain the 4.55 percent of the vote necessary to gain seats in parliament.
International airports in Slovakia
Large international airports-Letisko M. R. Štefánika – Airport Bratislava,www.airportbratislava.sk-Letisko Košice – Airport Košice, www.airportkosice.sk
Japanese recipes: Chirashi sushi (scattered sushi)
Ingredients and preparation.
Industrial park in the east
THE KOŠICE-based company Nová Polhora Invest plans to build a logistics-industrial park called Nová Polhora, which will be almost 40 hectares in size and located between Košice and Prešov, the SITA newswire wrote in late July.
Czech alcohol returns to Slovakia
SLOVAKIA officially lifted its ban on the import and sale of Czech spirits containing more than 20 percent alcohol at 17:00 on October 9. Slovak stores and pubs will, however, only be able to sell Czech-made liquor under strict regulations defined by an expert commission, whose members will be appointed by various ministries. The conditions will ensure that consumers are properly informed of the origin of the spirits they buy, the TASR newswire reported.
Reducing traffic intelligently
MORNING traffic jams can spoil any driver’s day. Snail-paced commutes and bumper-to-bumper gridlock often result in people arriving late to school, work or important meetings. Although several radio stations broadcast up-to-the-minute traffic information, drivers sometimes tune in after it is too late to turn back and choose a less congested route. Solving the problem of daily traffic jams is only one of the issues addressed by the European Union with the implementation of so-called intelligent transport systems (ITS).
Nurses protest
SOME two hundred nurses, midwives, and lab workers held a protest on Main Street in Košice, in the vicinity of the seat of the Constitutional Court on October 10. They called on the court to rule as soon as possible on the constitutionality of the law by which the previous government increased their salaries, the SITA newswire reported.
Ride & Drive Show giddied up this year’s Kôň 2012 (Horse 2012) fair
The international horse fair and exhibition Kôň 2012 marked the end of summer for the 9th time. On the weekend of September 1 and 2, the fairground in Trenčín hosted it, along with the Intertoys and Detský svet (Children’ World) exhibitions, the Sme daily wrote.
Slovakia ejected from food scheme
SOCIALLY disadvantaged citizens of Slovakia will not receive free food under the food aid scheme of the European Commission, after the EC excluded Slovakia from the scheme for 2013, the SITA newswire reported on October 9.
Firms to get €121m in state aid
THE GOVERNMENT will provide ten companies backed by foreign investors with state aid worth more than €121 million in the form of tax relief. Cabinet approval came after Economy Minister Tomáš Malatinský accepted a proposal from Finance Minister Peter Kažimír to postpone most of the aid to 2014 and beyond. The main argument for the move was the state’s need to focus on consolidation of the public finances and push the public finance deficit below 3 percent of GDP next year.
Industrial production slows
THE GROWTH of industrial production in Slovakia reached 17 percent year-on-year in August, compared to 18.4 percent in July, the Slovak Statistics Office announced on October 9.
EU leaders meet in Bratislava
REPRESENTATIVES of all 16 countries participating in the EU Friends of Cohesion summit, which took place in Bratislava on October 5, signed a joint declaration, in which they agreed with the proposed European Commission budget for 2014-20. Yet, they also declared that there is no scope for further cuts in the means allocated for cohesion purposes, the TASR newswire reported.
The exquisite cuisine of Japan
UPON hearing the word sushi, most Slovaks normally picture sashimi (actually small cuts of raw fish) or nigiri (raw fish or other ingredients served on or surrounded by small, individual portions of rice). However, sushi has many forms and varieties in terms of ingredients, colour, taste, texture and arrangement, Akira Takamatsu, Japan’s ambassador to Slovakia, explains as his chef Naoki Eguchi begins preparing chirashi sushi, which he says can be easily made by Slovaks in their own homes.
Košice through the lens
A PHOTOGRAPHY exhibition launched in Bratislava in late September looks at eastern Slovakia through the camera lenses of foreign diplomats and sees a region of untapped beauty and culture.
Exploring the limits of dance
THE BRATISLAVA v pohybe / Bratislava in Movement festival of contemporary dance was split into two parts this year; the second half, in September, focused more on dance students and the dance community, while also featuring – unlike the bigger, more renowned ensembles with sophisticated techniques that performed in the earlier, June half – purer, more intimate forms of modern dance.
White powder delivered to Bratislava City Hall declared safe
White powder that was found in an envelope by staff members at Bratislava City Hall's mail room early on Thursday, October 11, prompting the building to be closed, was not anthrax or any other dangerous substance, spokesman Ľubomír Andrassy later announced, the TASR newswire reported. Andrassy reported that a scientific examination of the white powder was concluded at 13:00, and found no dangerous substances to be present.
Dozens of ambassadors to visit Košice this weekend
Forty-six ambassadors to Slovakia are meeting in Košice on Friday and Saturday (October 12 and 13) to discover more about the region, the TASR newswire reported, citing Košice city spokesperson Martina Viktorinová. The visit is the latest in a series of annual diplomatic sessions organised by the Slovak Foreign Ministry, each time in a different region of Slovakia.
Richter offers students deal to cut their payroll taxes
Labour Minister Ján Richter has offered a compromise to college and university students who have threatened to take to the streets in protest at the introduction of a significant rise in the levies they are supposed to pay on so-called work-performance contracts (by which many students are employed in short-term or vacation jobs) as of next year, the TASR newswire reported on Thursday, October 11.
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