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Some freight forwarders providing outsourcing services in Slovakia
-Gefco Slovakia, www.gefco.sk-Gebrüder Weiss, www.gw-world.sk-Kuehne + Nagel, www.kuehne-nagel.sk-TNT Express, www.tnt.com/express/sk
Legal tussles continue in Čentéš case
THE OPPOSITION has collected 40 signatures to launch an appeal to the Constitutional Court against a change to the law governing the court’s own operation which the ruling Smer party passed via a fast-tracked proceeding on April 30. Smer justified its sudden move by saying that it was necessitated by the need to resolve the ongoing deadlock at the court in the case of Slovakia’s next general prosecutor. A series of objections against the court’s 13 judges has left only one of them not subject to claims of bias by either general-prosecutor-elect Jozef Čentéš or President Ivan Gašparovič, who has been refusing to appoint Čentéš for nearly two years since he was chosen as general prosecutor by parliament.
Slovaks pay homage to relic
MORE than 100,000 people turned out in Slovakia to view a relic from the body of John Bosco, a priest popularly known as Don Bosco.
Rift over NKÚ candidate deepens
SEVERAL state offices in Slovakia have been functioning without a legitimate director for a long time now. The authority in charge of auditing public spending is perhaps the second most visible among them, after the General Prosecutor’s Office. The reason is the same in both cases: politics.
Court rules Fico must apologise to Radičová
PRIME Minister Robert Fico will have to apologise to his predecessor, Iveta Radičová, for calling her a liar and accusing her of being involved in alleged corruption linked to the construction of a biathlon stadium in Osrblie. The district court in Pezinok issued a ruling on May 9 in which it ordered the prime minister to publish an apology in the TASR and SITA newswires at his own expense.Radičová sued Fico in September 2011 for libel.
Prosecutor’s office denies leaks
THE OFFICE of the General Prosecutor has denied that transcripts of recordings published on the blog of journalist and former editor-in-chief of The Slovak Spectator Tom Nicholson were leaked from the investigation file in the investigation of alleged Bratislava crime boss Libor Jakšík, which is being handled by the office.
Outsourcing and personal data protection: is it always a smooth ride?
Outsourcing is an ever-popular cost-saving strategy. For a variety of reasons companies prefer contracting out to an external provider of goods/services over producing the same thing internally. Outsourcing has wide legal implications depending on the outsourcing model used. In the information world of today these models develop quickly and the provision of outsourcing services does not take into account the world geographical set up. Technological developments also bring challenges for legal regulation to respond adequately to such a continuously changing environment. This article briefly outlines how personal data protection regulation responds to technological progress in the field of outsourcing.
Glossary: A rough start for graduates
Spectator College provides readers of The Slovak Spectator who are trying to improve their English with glossaries of useful and frequently used words and expressions from stories published as part of the Spectator College as well as in the rest of the newspaper. As well as this special glossary, which relates to the article A rough start for graduates, you can find more expressions in our Glossary for politics & business or in the List of names of institutions in English and Slovak.
A rough start for graduates
A glossary of words as well as an exercise related to this article are also published online.
Exercise: A rough start for graduates
This exercise is linked to the article: FA rough start for graduates.
Penta: Dôvera is not for sale
The investment group Penta has denied media reports that it intends to sell private health-insurer Dôvera to the government, Penta spokesman Martin Danko said on May 9.
Fico ordered by court to apologise to Radičová
Prime Minister Robert Fico must apologise to his predecessor Iveta Radičová for claiming publicly that she was in some way connected to corruption surrounding the completion of a biathlon sports facility in Osrblie, a judge at Pezinok District Court decided on May 9. The apology is to be published at Fico's expense via the TASR and SITA newswires. The ruling is not yet effective, as an appeal can be submitted within 15 days.
Slota detained by police
Former Slovak National Party (SNS) leader Ján Slota was arrested and detained by police in Čadca on May 9. The TASR newswire quoted the Pluska.sk news website, which broke the story, as stating that Slota, who was driving a car, refused an order by traffic police to pull over, and that officers subsequently blocked his vehicle.
Foreign-trade surplus topped half a billion euros in March
Total exports of goods from Slovakia amounted to €5.238 billion in March 2013, which represents a drop of 4.3 percent on the year, the Statistics Office announced on Thursday, May 9. Meanwhile, imports shrank by 9.3 percent on an annual basis to €4.711 billion. The surplus thus reached €527.2 million and was €252.2 million higher than the one recorded in March 2012, the TASR newswire wrote.
Macejková reportedly intervened in allocation of Čentéš case before law change
The chair of the Constitutional Court, Ivetta Macejková pre-empted a recent law change and allocated the disputed complaint filed by Jozef Čentéš to Peter Brňák, a judge who has previously been excluded from the case due to a complaint of bias by Čentéš, the Sme daily has reported. The law change, pushed through by the ruling Smer party, changes the rules governing the operation of the Constitutional Court to allow previously excluded judges to rule on stalled cases.
Floats to make first appearance at 2013 Rainbow Pride Bratislava
The Rainbow Pride parade in Bratislava will be held in autumn this year, which will for the first time feature decorated floats and music to accompany the march in support of LGBT rights.
Over 1,000 people pray for Slovak politicians
The Adopt a Politician prayer campaign organised by Christian institutions and youth organisations has attracted more than 1,000 regular visitors in the five months of its existence.
MP Fedor disapproves of proposed changes to SIS
The working draft of a law on the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) proposes to change the agency's name to the Office of the Civil Intelligence Service, and expands the powers of the prime minister, the head of the parliamentary defence and security committee, MP Martin Fedor (Slovak Democratic and Christian Union), informed the TASR newswire on Thursday, May 9, adding that he disliked all of the proposed changes.
Citizen rights party launches registration petition
A new political party is being formed in Slovakia, with the preparation committee of the Citizen Rights Party (Strana občianskych práv [SPO]) launching a petition on Wednesday, May 8, to collect the 10,000 signatures needed for registration with the Interior Ministry.
UNDP to quit Bratislava
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) regional centre established in Bratislava in 1997 is to close and move to Istanbul in Turkey, the Sme daily reported on May 9.
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