Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Slovakia" produced 177 items.
| 1. The public-private road to bankruptcy? | December 21, 2011 |
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A failure to book public-private partnerships on balance-sheets allows governments to drive a hole through plans to cap deficits. On 9 December, the EU's member states –... | |
| 2. The lady is a spook | December 1, 2011 |
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Spying in Slovakia. Slovakia's defence minister, L'ubomír Galko, was sacked last week because a military intelligence unit had tapped the phone of three newspaper reporters... | |
| 3. Slovakia ratifies changes to bail-out fund | October 13, 2011 |
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Opposition party approves EFSF after bringing down the government. Slovakia today became the last country in the eurozone to approve an enlarged mandate for the eurozone's... | |
| 4. Slovakia's Superman | October 6, 2011 |
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A profile of Richard Sulík, the Slovak who might yet pull the plug on the eurozone's bail-out fund. Dressed in a green Superman costume, with spermatozoa rushing alongside... |
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| 5. Slovakia's Havel | May 26, 2011 |
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Solavkia's prime minister faces many battles within her own party, but has a high-profile supporter. “To conquer Troy, they had to use a huge, eye-catching wooden horse.... |
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| 6. Founding father | May 19, 2011 |
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Hungary's junior foreign minister has been at the heart of the Fidesz party since day one. For Hungary's junior foreign minister, responsibility for the affairs of... | |
| 7. The false economies of central and eastern Europe | May 12, 2011 |
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Europe can no longer free-ride on the back of US taxpayers, a lesson NATO's eastern member states should learn now. Defence spending in the new member states of NATO is... | |
| 8. Appointment postponed as EU bickers over Kosovo relations | April 28, 2011 |
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Caretaker EU special representative named. Disagreements between European Union member states have prevented the appointment of an EU special representative (EUSR) for... | |
| 9. Narrowing economic disparities | April 20, 2011 |
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EU cohesion funds have brought economic growth to many of the Union's poorer regions, but much needs to be done to tackle east-west differences. The European Commission... |
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| 10. Clash of visions over agricultural reform | March 10, 2011 |
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Divsions over planned agricultural reform are emerging. Attempts to forge agreement among agriculture ministers on the reform of Europe's farm policy are coming unstuck,... |
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| 11. Ten topics that are vexing the EU's eastern half | March 10, 2011 |
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A trip to Bratislava brings to the surface some of the principal undercurrents in central and eastern Europe. The Globsec security conference in Bratislava is carving out... | |
| 12. Money worries in Slovakia | February 17, 2011 |
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How to resurrect a love for the euro. That sage journalist and political scientist Walter Bagehot warned, in an observation about the British monarchy, against letting... | |
| 13. How to make friends and influence people | February 17, 2011 |
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The president of the European Council expands his social networking efforts. Herman Van Rompuy now has an official page on Facebook. You cannot be ‘friends' with him, but... |
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| 14. 'No need to ban German foodstuffs' | January 10, 2011 |
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Commission says any ban in wake of dioxin scare would be an over the top reaction. The European Commission has said that any ban of German meat and poultry products in the... | |
| 15. Greece to be given next tranche of loan | September 2, 2010 |
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€9bn to be made available, of which €6.5bn will come from eurozone governments.
Eurozone finance ministers are expected to approve the release of the second... |
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| 16. Changing times and a sunny disposition in Hungary | September 2, 2010 |
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The new Hungarian government's policy of friendliness in all directions is already having an effect. Amid all the worries and irritation elsewhere, the bright spot in... |
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| 17. Slovak parliament votes against Greek financial aid | August 12, 2010 |
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MPs reject contributing to rescue fund. The Slovak parliament voted against taking part in the €110 billion eurozone assistance scheme for Greece. Sixty-nine members of... |
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| 18. Time for political decisions about Kosovo's statehood | July 29, 2010 |
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The ICJ's opinion leaves Romania, Slovakia and Spain with a responsibility to decide whether to reject or accept a Kosovar state. The International Court of Justice (ICJ)... |
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| 19. An incoherent exit strategy | July 29, 2010 |
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While some eastern European states are doing remarkably well in the current economic climate, others face a very uncertain future. Divergent economic trends in central and... |
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| 20. News in brief | July 15, 2010 |
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