Slovakia News Archives

On October 29, Construction and Regional Development Minister Igor Stefanov survived a third no-confidence vote, the SITA newswire reported.

One of the more curious aspects of Radio Prague in the early 1990s was that the station's name kept changing.

Slovakia will not insist on the same opt-out from the EU charter of rights as the Czech Republic wants to gain, but it wants the EU countries to state at the EU summit opening today that there is no need to be afraid of the breaking of the Benes decrees, Slovak PM Robert Fico said.

After initially claiming it would seek an exemption from part of the European Union's reform Lisbon Treaty, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico now says such an exemption could restrict Slovaks' rights.

Europe's leaders grapple on Thursday with deadlock on how to fight global warming and the legacy of recession, all the while jockeying for control of arguably the biggest appointment in Brussels' history.

After a sharp drop in the emigration trendA from Bulgaria during the period 2002-2006, a new tendency to leave the country has emerged among professionally unqualified young people betweenA 20-29 years of age, reports Dnevnik,A EurActiv's partnerA in Bulgaria.

The USA national team will met European nation Slovakia in an international exhibition match in November.

The second pension pillar could be worthwhile for only 15 percent of the 1.4 million currently-enrolled participants, said the Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, Viera Tomanova, adding at the October 26 session of the Economic and Social Council of the Slovak Republic, that the second pillar is not about saving but about investing, ...

Hungary-based developer TriGranit is planning a 1.3bn entertainment, commercial and conference centre, Metropolis, on a 30-hectacre site south of the Slovakian capital of Bratislava.

Slovakia has officially demanded for the same legal protection for its citizens to secure the inviolability of the post-war Benes decrees as the neighbouring Czech Republic.

Published: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 1:28 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 1:28 p.m. The United States will play an exhibition game against Slovakia on Nov.

Ancient ruins of the Peruvian town of Machu Picchu, Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia cathedral in Spain, and Lietava Castle in Slovakia are among 93 cultural heritage sites around the world marked as threatened due to neglect or needing preservation, said the World Monuments Fund at the beginning of October.

The duties that come with the job of a city manager are pretty much the same whether you work in central West Virginia or central Europe.

BRUSSELS: NATO defence ministers meet Friday to rally around a new strategy for Afghanistan hoping to steal the initiative from Taliban and Al-Qaeda-led insurgents as casualties mount.

Defence Minister John Faulkner has confirmed Australia's commitment to the war in Afghanistan in meetings with members of the International Security Assistance Force in Europe.

Building on its involvement inA stabilisingA the Western Balkans, Slovakia will continue to support EU enlargement, Slovakia'sA newly-appointedA commissioner, MaroAs AOEefA oviA , told EurActiv Slovakia in an exclusive interview.

Slovakia is poised to host a security conference in Bratislava on October 21 and 22, branded an "informal meeting of Nato defence ministers", Dnevnik daily reported on October 22, 2009.

US defense secretary says multiple NATO allies upping troops, civilian aid to Afghanistan.

Romana Maliti is well-known in Europe as one of the most important figures in the Slovakian theater world, but her affair with Russian drama had precious little to do with her professional interests.

Slovak air carrier Seagle Air suspended flights from October 22 for lack of money, the airline's General Manager Peter Hanak informed the CTK newswire.

In a meeting Monday in Mayor Danny Jones conference room, Charleston Parks & Recreation Director John Charnock describes his duties to visitors from the sister of Charleston, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia.

We're back from our 25 day trip to central Europe. Ken and I were invited to a friend's wedding in SpiA skA NovA Ves, Slovakia.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico attends a press conference with the Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on June 25, 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia a ' The NATO secretary-general says Afghanistan is the most complex challenge the alliance has ever faced but that it must remain engaged there to prevent the country from turning back into an al-Qaida training ground.

As Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates travels this week to Japan and South Korea before heading to a NATO defense ministers conference in Bratislava, Slovakia, he's expected to ensure the issue of support for Afghanistan remains solidly on front burner.

The Slovak Government announced that it will be taking a number of illegal immigrants from Malta under the pilot project for relocation between Member States of persons granted protection.

Oct. 18--The 65th anniversary of the holocaust was recognized with multiple events at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus in early October with the viewing of an Oscar-winning film, a journey to the National Holocaust Museum and testimony from someone who survived what was known as the "Kingdom of Death." "We decided to host these events about ...

NATO's 28 member states must quickly endorse U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal's recommendation to send reinforcements to deal with the escalating insurgency in Afghanistan because time is not on the alliance's side, its chief said Monday.

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia Slovakia and Austria have signed a deal to connect their oil pipeline networks as part of efforts to secure alternative energy supplies, Slovakia's Economy Ministry said Friday.

NATO military chiefs called Saturday for reinforcements and more resources for Afghanistan's national security forces, an alliance spokesman said.

Slovakia may try to negotiate an opt out clause in the European Union's Lisbon treaty to protect itself from potential post-war property claims if the Czechs manage to do so first, its prime minister said on Sunday.

NATO military chiefs on Saturday backed reinforcements and more resources for troops in Afghanistan, an alliance spokesman said.

Education representatives from around the globe visited the Jackson Public School District's Career Development Center on Friday looking for ways to improve their country's educational system.

Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico, who is in Turkey for talks, said Tuesday that his country backs EU enlargement, adding that every European country should have the right to join the 27-nation bloc if necessary obligations are fulfilled.

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates will travel to Japan and South Korea next week before attending a NATO gathering in Slovakia, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

Oct. 14--Harrah's Entertainment has attached its name to another international dream project.

"Fico in Turkey: Slovakia Supports EU Enlargement Ankara, October 13 - Slovakia is clearly in favour of further EU enlargement and rejects notions of the Union suffering from tiredness from this process, said Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in Ankara on Tuesday after meeting Turkish President Abdullah Gul in connection with Turkey's ambitions to ...

A comment made by George Pataki, a leading representative of the U.S. Republican Party, indicating that the United States will be deeply concerned if Slovakia doesn't change its State Language Act, was mocked by Slovak National Party chairman Jan Slota, commenting that he hoped that it was merely a personal opinion of Mr Pataki, otherwise it would ...

The most prestigious world canine event, the World Dog Show 2009, began October 8 in Bratislava's Expo Incheba Fairgrounds, the SITA newswire wrote.

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Kosovo will not be recognised by Slovakia, Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak said.

Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski will pay on Monday a one-day official visit to Slovakia, upon an invitation by his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico.

Chinese President Hu Jintao Tuesday exchanged messages of congratulation with his Hungarian counterpart Laszlo Solyom, Slovakian counterpart Ivan Gasparovic and Polish counterpart Jaroslaw Kaczynski to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between their countries.

The tiger recently found in a warehouse in Mosta was not a golden tabby, as claimed in another newspaper but a "normal, captive-bred Bengal tiger" originating from Slovakia, a spokesperson for the Malta Environment and Planning Authority has confirmed.

A column of Russian armoured vehicles moves along a road in South Ossetia, near the border with North Ossetia August 23 2008.

Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkoviae has praised Serbia's relations with Slovakia, stating that cooperation with Bratislava is vital to Serbia on its EU path .

Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico. Time has not brought a thaw to the government's chilly view of the press and its controversial press legislation enacted last year.