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Harabin turns to ECHR again
OUTGOING Supreme Court President Štefan Harabin has turned to the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) due to fact that his disciplinary proceeding has not been renewed, the TASR newswire reported on June 16.
SMK wants new gov’t proxy for ethnic minorities
THE GOVERNMENT should appoint a new plenipotentiary for ethnic minorities, the non-parliamentary Hungarian Community Party (SMK) stated on June 14.
830 people lost Slovak citizenship due to State Citizenship Act
IN THE four years of its existence, Slovakia’s amended State Citizenship Act has deprived 830 citizens of their Slovak passports, the TASR newswire reported, citing the most recent data of the Interior Ministry.
Police officer shot dead by drunk driver
A 34-YEAR-OLD police officer was shot and killed while attempting to check the driver of a passenger car in the village of Boleráz, near the western-Slovak town of Trnava, on the night of June 14.
Paška: History will remember Gašparovič as president of all citizens
HISTORY will remember Ivan Gašparovič as a president of all citizens, Speaker of Parliament Pavol Paška said at the ceremonial parliamentary session at the Slovak Philharmonic hall, during which Gašparovič handed over the office to Andrej Kiska on June 15.
Kiska calls for active citizenship in inaugural speech
“I DO fear such discontent that grows into deep disappointment, helplessness, resignation and indifference towards the things happening around us,” recently inaugurated President Andrej Kiska said in his first presidential speech, as he called on Slovak citizens to become engaged in community life.
Kiska vs. Scientology
THE NEW president is also a man who unwittingly brought issues of religion into the presidential campaign, to the surprise of many, eventually becoming one of the leading campaign topics. In fact, observers have noted that religion and a candidate’s personal religious beliefs had not been used in a political campaign to such an extent ever since the first elections after the fall of communism in early 1990s.
An angel for president?
THANKS to his Dobrý Anjel (Good Angel) project, Andrej Kiska became Slovakia’s best-known businessman-turned-philanthropist even before he launched his presidential campaign.
Designing a diverse society
GENDER equality is a win-win situation, with much of the male population feeling better with more time with the family, suggests Nils Daag, who represents Sweden, one of the most gender equal societies in the world. He stresses that “this is the future from every perspective”. The Slovak Spectator discussed with the Swedish ambassador to Slovakia the issue of military cooperation between the two countries, economic links, Swedish design, the challenge presented by far right-wing parties across Europe and the role of the European Union in this context.
Countrywide Events
Western SLOVAKIA
MPs ignore Dubovcová again
LESS than a dozen of 150 parliamentary deputies listened to Ombudswoman Jana Dubovcová present her annual report on June 10. As she discussed the state of human rights in Slovakia for nearly one hour, Dubovcová spoke to a near empty discussion hall that only began to fill, according to reports by the Sme daily, when a scheduled vote on the report approached. It was approved.
Room for growth
WHILEIKEA is probably the first Swedish company to spring to the minds of most Slovaks when iscussing this Nordic country and its presence in Slovakia, the popular furniture producer and retailer is actually a Dutch investment, as its official seat is in the Netherlands. Nevertheless, IKEA, which has made Sweden’s iconic designs and tasty meatballs popular in Slovakia, is just one of nearly 80 companies with links to Sweden operating in Slovakia.
Kiska: Slovakia's self-made man
THE SLOVAK Kennedy is what the Trend weekly called Andrej Kiska, who takes the presidential office on June 15.
Rules for payment of private pensions set
AFTER nine and a half years since the robust pension reform and the launch of the so-called second, private pension pillar, the rules for paying pensions from this pillar have finally been set. While retirees will receive the first pensions from the second pillar in January, it is already apparent that the Slovak old-age pension scheme will need another revamp.
Finland: General facts
Form of government: Parliamentary democracyCapital: HelsinkiTotal area: 338,424 square kilometresPopulation: 5.4 millionOfficial languages: Finnish (spoken by 91 percent of population), Swedish (5.4 percent). Sámi is the mother tongue of about 1,700 people who are descendants of the indigenous Sámi people of northern LaplandCurrency: euro
Swedish institutions and organisations
Embassy of Sweden www.swedenabroad.comAmbassador: Nils Daag-The Swedish Embassy in Vienna represents the Swedish government in Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia and is at the same time the permanent representation of Sweden at the United Nations’ offices in Vienna.
Slovak E-Group invests in Finland
SLOVAK company E-Group has acquired the Finnish Posion Eregia Oy company, allowing it to enter the Finnish energy market. The Slovak company plans to construct a wind power station with an installed capacity 10 MW, which comes with a €15-million price tag, the TASR newswire wrote on May 14.
Police recording features judge
THE POLICE recorded phone calls of Supreme Court judge Štefan Michálik during a time when prosecutor Michal Barila, back in 2010, discussed with him the release of a man accused of fraud, police recordings revealed by the Specialised Criminal Court suggest, according to the Sme daily.The Specialised Criminal Court, which started proceedings in the case of the suspicion of corruption, played the recordings during a public session.
Quote of the week
“I will miss the meetings where if we had problems we called each other, and we came and sought solutions.”
Finding the niche
ALMOST seven times bigger than Slovakia in terms geographical area, but almost equal in size in population, Finland remains rather undiscovered by Slovakia, even though there already are shining examples of successful cooperation between the two countries. But innovative Finland offers even more.
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- A mayor resigns over €2.7 million fraud scandal at town hall
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- Fico praises China and Vietnam as models, says liberal democracy has failed
- News digest: Violent gang in Bratislava is under arrest
- The Kremlin’s security agency has a Russian contractor in Slovakia - no one has noticed
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- News digest: Prosecutor seeks jail for NBS Governor Kažimír as his political support wanes
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