Euractive (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
EU finance ministers gave Slovakia the green light on 8 July to adopt the euro on 1 January 2009, setting the conversion rate for the Slovak koruna to the euro at 30.126 SKK amid a scandal regarding suspected trading of privileged information on central parity movements, EurActiv.sk reports.
EPP ED (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
D uring his first visit to Slovakia as Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Joseph Daul MEP expressed his satisfaction at the decision of the European Council to accept Slovakia as new member of the Eurozone as from 1 January 2009.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Bratislava - Slovakia on Thursday became the ninth European Union nation to ratify the EU's reform treaty, as lawmakers of the ethnic Hungarian minority broke ranks with the rest of the opposition and backed the pact. Prime Minister Robert Fico's con...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Slovakia's opposition threatens to block ratification of the EU treaty as a controversial media law is passed.
EPP ED (Free subscription) | 03/29/2008
T oday, Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, German MEP Michael Gahler (EPP-ED), strongly rejected the draft press legislation tabled by the Slovakian government under Prime Minister Fico as an "attack on the freedom of press, citizens' rights and the fundamental democratic principles of the European Union as a whole."
Dr Sean's Diary (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
The woes of Slovakia’s centre-right Christian Democratic parties continue apace. Three deputies of the Christian Democrat Movement (KDH) have quit to found a Conservative Democratic Party (KDS) , which, they say, will be more resolutely committed supporting traditional values and targeting financial support to (traditional) families. Meanwhile dissident members of the more liberal Slovak Christian...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Prague - The Slovak parliament has postponed the ratification of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty indefinitely as the centre-left ruling coalition has so far failed to muster enough votes for its approval, media reports said Thursday. I will not a...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
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Graham Doel (Free subscription) | 02/04/2008
The Enlightenment Author: Dorinda Outram Publication: Cambridge University Press (1995) Contents What is Enlightenment', p.1 Coffee houses and consumers: the social context of the Enlightenment, p.14 The rise of modern paganism: Religion and the Enlightenment, p.31 Science and the Enlightenment: God's order and man's understanding, p.47 Europe’s mirror? The Enlightenment and the exotic, p.63 Enlightenment...
Listen Up (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
Steve Jones bats third in our four-week series of Grammy-themed playlists -- each entry is either nominated for a Grammy or is on an album that's nominated. > Pick of the week: If I Have My Way, Chrisette Michele: The...
Concierge.com (Free subscription) | 12/25/2007
The star of Blood Diamond and Amistad talks about the work he's doing with Oxfam in Africa.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/09/2007
Barbara Cartland could not have designed it better. David Collins' impertinently pretty makeover of The Fountain restaurant is so chic, so darling, and so pink that it's my new favourite dining-room in London.
The Star (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
Double celebration by old boys The Methodist Afternoon School Old Boys Association (Masoba) celebrated its 47th Annual Reunion and the Merdeka Golden Anniversary dinner in style last Saturday when more than 450 members and guests headed by the late Tunku Abdul Rahman's (Bapa Malaysia) son Datuk Tunku Ahmad Nerang turned up for the event. The event was held at the Yoke Nam Primary School in Overseas...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson, author of Remember World War II: Kids Who Survived Tell Their Stories, will moderate a panel today of those who lived through World War II as children. Nicholson, a Raytown resident, lived in Pearl Harbor at the time of the December 1941 attack.
Concierge.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2007
From Alaska's Bristol Bay to China's Lake Tai, we present this year's outstanding environmentalists. All four finalists are heroes within their communities but are little known beyond them. It is an honor to bring their efforts to the world's attention.
