Slovakia

  • Feb 17, 2003
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EASTERN EUROPE: SME financing

Practically all the major financial groups present in Central and Eastern Europe have refocused...

  • Feb 13, 2003
  • 7 min read

SLOVAKIA: Coalition wobbles over bugging scandal

On February 7 Interior Ministry officials again denied police involvement in phone-tapping...

Slovakia
  • Feb 13, 2003
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SLOVAKIA: Deepening discontent

The discovery of unauthorised wiretaps in police records has sparked a bitter quarrel in the...

Slovakia
  • Feb 3, 2003
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SLOVAKIA: Train troubles

The nationwide railway strike entered its third day today, after the state-owned rail operator,...

Slovakia
  • Jan 29, 2003
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SLOVAKIA: Rail row

Railway workers held a six-hour railway strike -- the country's first -- today, in protest at...

Slovakia
  • Jan 27, 2003
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SLOVAKIA: Export economics

The foreign trade deficit for 2002 fell to 96.6 billion crowns (2.5 billion dollars), from...

Slovakia
  • Jan 21, 2003
  • 6 min read

EASTERN EUROPE/EU: Euroscepticism to grow

By the time of their accession in May 2004, the new member states will have completed the...

Eu
  • Jan 20, 2003
  • 6 min read

EASTERN 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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