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Hundreds Czech families to receive welfare benefits from Slovakia [Jul 29, 2010] Prague, July 28 (CTK) - Hundreds of families living in the Czech Republic will finally receive welfare payments from Slovakia if they have the right to them, Labour and Social Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Viktorie Plivova has told CTK. [via YahooNews] More >>

Neas says he understands Slovakia's stance on Hungarian citizenship [Jul 20, 2010] Bratislava, July 19 (CTK) - Prague has "a great extent of understanding" for Slovakia's stand in the dispute with Hungary over the law on dual citizenship, Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas said after a meeting with his Slovak counterpart Iveta Radicova Monday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Slovak, Czech presidents to mark Czechoslovakia's anniversary (Prague Daily Monitor) [Oct 27, 2008] Bratislava, Oct 24 (CTK) - Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic and his wife will visit the Czech Republic on Monday to mark Czechoslovakia's 90th birth anniversary along with Czech President Vaclav Klaus, Margita Ivanickova from the Slovak Presidential Office's press department told CTK Friday. [via YahooNews] More >>

AP: Slovakia critical of US missile-defence plans (Prague Daily Monitor) [Jan 22, 2008] Strasbourg, France, Jan 21 (CTK) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico today criticised the U.S. plan to station elements of the U.S. missile defence shield in the Czech Republic and Poland that both border on Slovakia, the AP news agency reports. [via YahooNews] More >>

Klaus: Slovak euro entry plan too bold (Prague Daily Monitor) [Jan 11, 2008] Bratislava, Jan 10 (CTK) - Czech President Vaclav Klaus, on a visit to Slovakia, said after a meeting with his Slovak counterpart Ivan Gasparovic Thursday that the Slovaks' plan to adopt the euro as of 2009 need not bring only benefit to them. [via YahooNews] More >>

MfD: Czech kids know little about Slovakia (Prague Daily Monitor) [Jan 03, 2008] Prague, Jan 2 (CTK) - Czech teenagers have problems to understand the Slovak language and they know only a little about the neighbouring Slovakia 15 years since Czechoslovakia's split, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) wrote Wednesday, referring to a survey conducted on 15-year-old Czechs and Slovaks. [via YahooNews] More >>

(AFX UK Focus) 2007-12-05 15:19 GMT: Czech Telefonica O2 grabs 10 pct market share in Slovak expansion (Interactive Investor) [Dec 05, 2007] PRAGUE (Thomson Financial) - Czech telecom group Telefonica O2 Czech Republic has signed up 500,000 mobile customers in Slovakia, or around 10 pct of the market, since entering the market in February this year, Czech news wire CTK reported, citing the general director of the group's Slovak division. [via YahooNews] More >>

Czech Telefonica O2 grabs 10 pct market share in Slovak expansion (FinanzNachrichten) [Dec 05, 2007] PRAGUE (Thomson Financial) - Czech telecom group Telefonica O2 Czech Republic ( Nachrichten ) has signed up 500,000 mobile customers in Slovakia, or around 10 pct of the market, since entering the market in February this year, Czech news wire CTK reported, citing the general director of the group's Slovak division. [via YahooNews] More >>

Police Arrest 3; Seize Radioactive Material In Slovakia (KWWL Iowa) [Nov 28, 2007] BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - Three people have been arrested in Eastern Europe for trying to sell more than two pounds of radioactive material. Slovak police did not specify what the material was. But the Czech news agency CTK -- citing unconfirmed reports -- says the material was enriched uranium. [via YahooNews] More >>

Topolanek to face Fico on Czech TV on 1989 anniversary (Prague Daily Monitor) [Nov 15, 2007] Bratislava, Nov 14 (CTK) - Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek will appear along with Prime Minister Robert Fico in a duel on the regular programme Vaclav Moravec's Questions of the public broadcaster Czech Television (CT) on Sunday, government spokeswoman Silvia Glendova told CTK today. [via YahooNews] More >>

C.S. Cargo buys Slovak firm mGal spedition (Prague Daily Monitor) [Nov 07, 2007] Prague, Nov 6 (CTK) - Czech logistic group C.S. Cargo has bought 100 percent in Slovak company mGal spedition, becoming the largest cargo carrier in Slovakia, C.S. Cargo reps announced at a press conference Tuesday without disclosing the price. [via YahooNews] More >>

(AFX UK Focus) 2007-11-02 18:02 GMT: Slovakia gets 8 tenders to build new truck toll system, including 3 from Austria (Interactive Investor) [Nov 03, 2007] VIENNA (Thomson Financial) - Austrian companies Kapsch TrafficCom, Siemens Austria and Efkon AG are among the eight bidders vying to win a contract for an electronic truck tolling system in Slovakia, the Austrian news agency APA reported citing the Czech news agency CTK. [via YahooNews] More >>

UN: ?R, Slovakia violate Roma right to housing (Prague Daily Monitor) [Oct 26, 2007] Strasbourg, France, Oct 25 (CTK) - The Czech Republic and Slovakia are among the European countries that violate the right to housing in the case of Romanies, EC Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammarberg and U.N. rapporteur for housing rights Milun Kothari said in a joint statement Thursday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Slovakia revises 2006 GDP growth upward to 8.8 pct UPDATE (The Forex Market) [Oct 24, 2007] PRAGUE (Thomson Financial) - Slovakia's statistical office revised upward its 2006 gross domestic product growth to 8.8 pct from the 8.3 pct estimated earlier, Czech news wire CTK reported. [via YahooNews] More >>

(AFX UK Focus) 2007-10-24 10:07 GMT: Slovakia revises 2006 gross domestic product growth upward to 8.8 pct (Interactive Investor) [Oct 24, 2007] PRAGUE (Thomson Financial) - Slovakia's statistical office revised upward its 2006 gross domestic product growth to 8.8 pct from the 8.3 pct estimated earlier, Czech news wire CTK reported. [via YahooNews] More >>

?R drops, Slovakia rises in RSF press-freedom index (Prague Daily Monitor) [Oct 17, 2007] Paris/Vienna, Oct 16 (CTK) - Slovakia shares the third place with Estonia in an index measuring the level of press freedom in 169 countries throughout the world , while the Czech Republic places 14th, according to an annual report by the international journalists' organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published in Paris Tuesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Number of foreigners working in CzechRep up 38,000 this year (Prague Daily Monitor) [Oct 10, 2007] Prague, Oct 9 (CTK) - The number of foreigners legally working in the Czech Republic grew by 38,000 by the end of September to 223,000, most of them coming from Slovakia, Ukraine and Poland, according to Labour and Social Affairs Ministry statistics. [via YahooNews] More >>

EC praises progress in Czech, Slovak education systems (Prague Daily Monitor) [Oct 04, 2007] Brussels, Oct 3 (CTK) - The Czech Republic and Slovakia have made great progress in education, according to the EC report assessing school system reforms in all EU member states, released Wednesday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Number of foreigners in ?R rising (Prague Daily Monitor) [Sep 21, 2007] Prague/Bratislava, Sept 20 (CTK) - Over 34,000 foreigners came to live in the Czech Republic in the first six months of this year, compared to 25,000 in the second half of last year, which proves that the number of immigrants living in the country is rising, the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) and foreigner police said Thursday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Slovakia, Ukraine to agree on local border regime (People's Daily) [Aug 29, 2007] Slovakia and Ukraine plan to reach an agreement on visa-free movement across the two countries' borders for people living in the border regions even after Slovakia's entry into the Schengen area, the Czech news agency CTK reported on Tuesda ... [via YahooNews] More >>