Slovakia
EASTERN EUROPE: SME financing
Practically all the major financial groups present in Central and Eastern Europe have refocused...
SLOVAKIA: Coalition wobbles over bugging scandal
On February 7 Interior Ministry officials again denied police involvement in phone-tapping...
SlovakiaSLOVAKIA: Deepening discontent
The discovery of unauthorised wiretaps in police records has sparked a bitter quarrel in the...
SlovakiaSLOVAKIA: Train troubles
The nationwide railway strike entered its third day today, after the state-owned rail operator,...
SlovakiaSLOVAKIA: Rail row
Railway workers held a six-hour railway strike -- the country's first -- today, in protest at...
SlovakiaSLOVAKIA: Export economics
The foreign trade deficit for 2002 fell to 96.6 billion crowns (2.5 billion dollars), from...
SlovakiaEASTERN EUROPE/EU: Euroscepticism to grow
By the time of their accession in May 2004, the new member states will have completed the...
EuEASTERN EUROPE/EU: Accession poses risks and rewards
European integration is a process rather than an event, and in many ways the East European...
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