Slovakia

  • Dec 5, 2007
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SLOVAKIA: Vote backs both canny budget and coalition

Parliament yesterday approved the 2008 budget in a vote that Prime Minister Robert Fico made also...

Slovakia
  • Nov 30, 2007
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EASTERN EUROPE: Slovaks nab uranium smugglers

The Slovak police yesterday announced that they had arrested three men on the border with Hungary...

  • Nov 27, 2007
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SLOVAKIA: Coalition rallies to support speaker

The ruling coalition held together today in rejecting an opposition motion to sack the speaker of...

Slovakia
  • Nov 23, 2007
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SLOVAKIA: Fico fires junior partner's minister

President Ivan Gasparovic today accepted Prime Minister Robert Fico's request for the dismissal...

Slovakia
  • Nov 20, 2007
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SLOVAKIA/AUSTRIA: M-way links Vienna and Bratislava

Senior Slovak and Austrian ministers attended yesterday's ceremony at Kittsee just inside the...

Slovakia
  • Nov 16, 2007
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SLOVAKIA: Education system fails Roma -- Amnesty

In 2006, only 3% of Roma children attended secondary school, Amnesty International reported...

Slovakia
  • Nov 9, 2007
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EUROPEAN UNION: Schengen expansion has symbolic value

EU interior ministers yesterday unanimously agreed to expand the border-free Schengen area to...

  • Oct 17, 2007
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HUNGARY/SLOVAKIA: Radicals have yet to find traction

The formation of the Magyar Garda has drawn attention to chronic divisions within the political...

Hungary