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CEOs in Slovakia more optimistic on global economic prospects
TOP managers active in Slovakia are considerably more optimistic now in terms of their expectations for the global economy than was the case last year, according to a survey by PwC and Forbes magazine on April 4.
Prievidza to host World Art Games
THE SLOVAK town of Prievidza is the third location to host the new World Art Games. The project features the works of more than 70 artists from 30 countries in a travelling exhibition, shown from March 21.
SE refurbishes Nováky
SLOVENSKÉ Elektrárne (SE), the country’s dominant electricity producer, plans to begin refurbishing its coal-fired power station in Nováky this year, the SITA newswire wrote on April 1.
Students discussing the human rights issues
A CHILDREN’S euthanasia bill passing in Belgium, Gay Pride and pro-life marches, Russia’s annexation of Crimea: this is just a brief list of issues that secondary school students had to grapple with at the Human Rights Olympics (OĽP) vol. 16, which took place in Modra – Harmónia on March 26-28.
Fjúžn connects diverse V4 cultures
THE FJÚŽN (Fusion) multicultural festival, exploring the cultures of “new minorities”, as well as their contributions to Slovak society, has already become a traditional spring event in the capital. The festival’s 9th edition, starting in mid-April, will focus on immigrants - their search for a new life and their forms of cultural expression, and will take place at the KC Dunaj and other venues.
Electricity for firms is costly
BASED on the European Commission’s energy prices and costs report released in mid-March, industrial electricity prices (excluding VAT and recoverable taxes) went up by about 3.5 percent per year in the period between 2008 and 2012. In some countries retail industrial prices have actually decreased over the period in question (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia), while industrial users in countries such as Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia have experienced annual growth of more than 8 percent.
Institutions and organisations in the energy sector in Slovakia
-Ministry of Economy, www.economy.gov.sk-Regulatory Office for Network Industries (ÚRSO) www.urso.gov.sk-Slovak Electricity Transmission System (SEPS) www.sepsas.sk-Nuclear Regulatory Authority (ÚJD), www.ujd.gov.sk-Slovak Innovation and Energy Agency (SIEA), www.siea.sk
Parallel Lives explores communist-era secret police
ALTHOUGH born as part of the Divadelná Nitra 2013 international theatre festival, the project Parallel Lives – 20th Century through the Eyes of the Secret Police, has taken on a life of its own.
Glossary: Telling the truth on immigration
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 Telling the truth on immigration, you can find more expressions in our Glossary for politics & business or in the List of names of institutions in English and Slovak.
Countrywide Events
Western SLOVAKIA
Survey: Practical job skills still lacking
SLOVAKIA still lacks enough qualified graduates to fully satisfy the need of foreign investors, who fault the still weak links between schools and businesses, as well as a dearth of young people studying technical fields, according to a survey of foreign chambers of commerce.
VW produces record number of cars
BRATISLAVA-BASED carmaker Volkswagen Slovakia (VW SK) produced 426,313 vehicles last year, up by 1.5 percent compared to 2012.
Better, diverse gas grid connections a priority
THE CRISIS in Ukraine has underscored Slovakia’s need to reduce its reliance on Russian gas. To boost its energy security and minimise its dependence on Russia, Slovakia is working to become interconnected to the complex and diversified grid of bi-directional gas supplies that has evolved in Europe in the years since communism.
Fire near Betliar extinguished, five hectares of land charred
Firefighters put out a forest fire close to the village of Betliar in Košice Region after containing the blaze and spending all of March 22 extinguishing it.
Energy use gets smarter
HOUSEHOLDS and small businesses will join big commercial electricity consumers in using intelligent metering systems after a set of regulations was passed in late 2013.
Court upholds Sadiki’s sentence
THE PREŠOV Regional Court upheld the original 22-year prison sentence for alleged Kosovar drug lord Baki Sadiki, after turning down the appeal against the ruling of the first-instance court from December 16.
Nuclear fleet has top year
THE YEAR 2013 brought the best results in the operational history of the nuclear units of Slovenské Elektrárne (SE). The average availability (generation time minus outages) of all four units in Bohunice and Mochovce was 93.95 percent, Jaroslav Holubec, the nuclear power plant operation division director, wrote in the company magazine in January.
Telling the truth on immigration
A glossary of words as well as an exercise related to this article are also published online.
Sliač locals oppose pet crematorium
SOME inhabitants of the municipality of Sliač in central Slovakia have rejected the idea to build a crematorium for pets from the former administrative building in the town’s cooperative farming complex.
Wolfgang von Kempelen: builder, inventor, pioneer
POLY-HISTORIAN, inventor, hydro-electronics pioneer, translator, publicist and researcher in phonetics: that is how Bratislava native Wolfgang Kempelen is typically remembered. He was born in Bratislava, then called Prešporok, Pressburg or Pozsony, depending on one’s language, in Janauary 1734, and died 210 years ago, on March 26.
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