Archive for: September, 2011

Vendetta? Man Blown Up in Car in Martin

photo (c) Russianname

  The sport of car-burning in Slovakia as a way of settling vendettas has taken on a new dimension, as a car was blown up in the town of Martin this afternoon. According to Pluska.sk, a loud explosion shook the streets of Martin when the BMW X3 of 30-year old local businessman Martin K became [...]

Two Accused of Machination with FNM Funds

Illustrative photo (c) Arasmus photo

Two former top managers of the National Property Fund (FNM), which administers the state’s assets, have been charged with machination involving EUR 1.2 million in taxpayers’ money. The two men, Juraj K and Jozef V, transferred funds of the FNM to a private company as part of an out-of-court settlement even though the FNM had [...]

Hundreds of Doctors Resign in Protest at Health Ministry

LP Hospital, Kosice - photo (c) Veronika Januskova

  The protest of doctors by way of a collective mass redundancy has started to take shape as hundreds of doctors all over the country started handing in their resignations yesterday. Although almost 2,500 doctors enrolled to the campaign, only some of them have actually taken the step of resigning and so will start to [...]

Slovakia To Apologise to Hedviga Malinova

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Slovakia has agreed before the European Court of Human Rights to extend an official apology to Hedviga Malinova-Žákova in return for her recalling her lawsuit in Strasbourg and the waiver of any right to financial compensation. Malinova is suing the Slovak Republic over errors in the investigation into an alleged ethnically-motivated attack on her back [...]

Ericsson Strikes Deal with Slovak Telekom

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Slovak Telekom, Slovakia’s largest multimedia operator, a member of the multinational Deutsche Telekom Group, has assigned Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) to provide managed services delivering fixed network operations center support as well as field operations and maintenance. As a result of this fixed-line managed-services contract – the first for Ericsson in the Slovak Republic – 100 [...]

PM Radicova Has Acceptable EFSF Proposal For SaS

PM Iveta Radicova (c) The Daily

Prime Minister Iveta Radicova may have weathered the EFSF storm and talk of a broken cabinet after presenting an acceptable proposal to the SaS party, which has been blocking the latest draft to hike up Slovakia’s contribution to the fund. Neither PM Radicova nor the SaS party will reveal the details of the latest option [...]

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