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                <language>en</language><item><title>Slovakia | New wave of "Gorilla" demonstrations</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1483441-new-wave-gorilla-demonstrations</link><description><![CDATA[On February 3, &ldquo;the Gorilla was hunted across the squares&rdquo; of Slovakia, leads SME. A week after a first demonstration against the corruption depicted in [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:14:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | A Gorilla tearing down the system (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1468351-gorilla-tearing-down-system</link><description><![CDATA[Explosive and mysterious, a file named “Gorilla” contains evidence of corruption in Slovakia’s political and economic elite. Two months away from early parliamentary elections, who stands to benefit from the revelations? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Gorila-Slovakia.jpg" length="71105" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:38:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Václav Havel - Europe has lost a father</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/press-review/1306911-vaclav-havel-europe-has-lost-father</link><description><![CDATA[The European press provides a nearly unanimous homage to Václav Havel the playwright, dissident and first president of post-communist Czechoslovakia. Havel died of cancer on December 18. He was 75. &ndash;  (Press review)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/author/Vaclav-Havel19122011_0.jpg" length="58533" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:31:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | State of emergency in hospitals</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1241831-state-emergency-hospitals</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The  fight for survival. What more can be done?&rdquo; writes Pravda two days  after the collective resignation of 1,400 Slovak doctors to protest [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111202pravda.jpg" length="7158" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:36:20 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | The fall of the incorruptible Ľubomír Galko (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1232651-fall-incorruptible-kubomir-galko</link><description><![CDATA[In seeking to tackle corruption by means of illegal wiretaps, the disgraced former defense minister violated the very democratic principles he wanted to defend. And his case has further undermined Slovaks&#039; confidence in politicians as well the press. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Lubomir-Galko.jpg" length="84231" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:43:42 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Defence minister out on his ear</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1203731-defence-minister-out-his-ear</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Galko is finished,&rdquo; headlines Pravda  in the wake of the &nbsp;dismissal of the Minister of Defense by outgoing  Prime Minister Iveta Radičov&aacute;. Ľubom&iacute;r [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/pravda-100.jpg" length="35593" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:38:37 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Doctors mobilise against privatisation</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1147361-doctors-mobilise-against-privatisation</link><description><![CDATA[Although the project to transform 31 public hospitals into private companies has been shelved until after general elections next March, &ldquo;doctors are continuing to resign&rdquo;,&nbsp;headlines [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Pravda-08112011-100.jpg" length="40763" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:21:59 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Law could lead to Communist Party&#039;s dissolution</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1143321-law-could-lead-communist-partys-dissolution</link><description><![CDATA[Twenty-two years after the 1989 revolution, &ldquo;the police will investigate the communists&rdquo; announces SME. Two months after a law made it a punishable offence to [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/SME-07112011-100.jpg" length="13296" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:18:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Not another cent for Greece</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1112291-not-another-cent-greece</link><description><![CDATA[At  the Eurozone summit on 26 October, outgoing Slovak Prime Minister Iveta  Radičov&aacute; negotiated an exemption for her country, which will not be [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:37:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Opinion | How the euro will divide Europe (Gazeta Wyborcza, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1065421-how-euro-will-divide-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Mooted eurozone reforms should enhance the single currency’s ability to weather financial crises, but will probably deepen the European Union’s division into an inner core (the eurozone) and the rest, argues a Polish columnist. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/COST-europe-divided.jpg" length="55475" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:09:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia  | Eurozone vote triggers shift in alliances</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1057331-eurozone-vote-triggers-shift-alliances</link><description><![CDATA[In the wake of parliament&rsquo;s ratification of measures to expand the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and a vote to set the date for early [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/111014sme.jpg" length="6694" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:01:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Green light | Cartoon (The New York Times, New York)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1057301-green-light</link><description><![CDATA[Green light (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/danziger-rain.jpg" length="35370" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:48:04 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Own goal for Slovakia | Editorial</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/editorial/1057031-own-goal-slovakia</link><description><![CDATA[To know where the euro was going this week, you had to understand the subtleties of Slovak politics.
On  11 October, the parliament in Bratislava refused to ratify plans to  expand the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), when the  opposition social-democratic party (Smer) abstained, allowing the  liberals of the Freedom and Solidarity party (SaS) to bring down Iveta  Radičov&aacute;&rsquo;s coalition government, which included their own party. On 13  October, the same parliament approved the reinforced EFSF with support  of Smer MPs, who had, in the meantime, agreed to support the measure in  exchange for early general elections.
In  the debates and negotiations on the issue, Slovakia&rsquo;s political elite  showed its inability to see that their country&rsquo;s real interests were  best served by a European context. In so doing, it demonstrated the  narrow minded mentality of a small country, whose only means to  attracting attention to itself on the European stage is the  instrumentalisation of legitimate questions  &ndash;  the utlity of Eurozone  bailout mechanisms  &ndash;  for short-term political gains.
Although  EU leaders called on Bratislava to hold a second vote on the EFSF, the  response in Brussels cannot be described as an anti-democratic bid to  force the hand of a national parliament, as it was when the Irish were  obliged to organise a second referendum on the Lisbon treaty in 2009.  However, Brussels has had a major impact on national politics, because  the second vote has presented Smer leader Robert Fico, who was  Slovakia&rsquo;s prime minister from 2006 to 2010, with a major opportunity.&nbsp; 
Fico  has already shown he is a force to be reckoned with through his  creation of alliances J&aacute;n Slota&rsquo;s extreme-right SNS and Vladim&iacute;r  Mečiar&rsquo;s populists. In the course of a mandate, in which Slovakia became  more nationalist and inward-looking, that served to raise ethnic tensions in the region,  Fico prioritised the development of closer ties with Russian and Serbia  over better relations with the EU. So if he suceeds in winning the  early general elections that have now been slated for next March, the EU  will have contributed, albeit inadvertently, &nbsp;to the undermining of  democracy in Slovakia in the years to come. 
However,  the man who must assume most of the blame for this situation is Richard  Sul&iacute;k, whose SaS party opposed the measure on the first vote. The  president of parliament and liberal leader is more concerned about the future of his children,  who would be plunged into debt if Slovakia had to pay for Greece. There  is no denying the substance of this argument in the Eurozone&rsquo;s poorest  country, which had to take charge of its economic transition after the  fall of communism. But in putting forward this view, Sul&iacute;k failed to  take into account the extent to which his country is now linked to the  European economy, and the fact that Slovakia will run much greater risks  if it continues to act like a selfish loner far away beyond the Tatras. 
The  EFSF triggered the fall of the government led by Iveta Radičov&aacute;  &ndash;  a  politician who understands the importance of belonging to the Eurozone  and the need for solidarity, but lacks the clout to ensure support for  these policies. At the end of the day, Slovakia approved the measures to  strengthen the EFSF, but the manner in which it did so came at a high  cost. The vote was not only a failure for Radičov&aacute;&rsquo;s government, but for  the entire country of Slovakia.
 (Editorial)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:35:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Elections to bail out the bail-out</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1053271-elections-bail-out-bail-out</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Elections will be held March 10. We will pass the bailout plan.&rdquo; Thus Pravda sums up the political manoeuvring going on in Bratislava. After the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Pravda-10132011-100.jpg" length="38958" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:08:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | All resistance is futile | Cartoon (Cicero, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/cartoon/1049561-all-resistance-futile</link><description><![CDATA[All resistance is futile (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/mohr_slowakei-hands-up-490.jpg" length="49892" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:51:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Back to the black hole of Europe? (SME, Bratislava)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1048271-back-black-hole-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Having rejected an expanded rescue fund for the eurozone, the Slovak parliament has jeopardised the EU response to the crisis. Seen from Bratislava, this vote is also a threat to the relatively new status enjoyed by the country in recent years. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/slovakia-falling.jpg" length="77136" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:36:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>EFSF | After Malta, all eyes on Slovakia</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1044411-after-malta-all-eyes-slovakia</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Parliament approves the EU relief fund and the loans to Greece,&quot; headlines the Times of Malta following the vote that saw Malta&rsquo;s MEPs vote unanimously [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Times-Malta-11102011-100.jpg" length="37329" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:50:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Bratislava agrees to bolster euro</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/1004631-bratislava-agrees-bolster-euro</link><description><![CDATA[Slovakia&#039;s intentions regarding the reinforcement of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) have long been unclear but Bratislava now seems on the path to accepting [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/SME-29092011-100.jpg" length="38832" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:46:43 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Economic crisis | Youthful members of the full-time precariat (Polityka, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/953511-youthful-members-full-time-precariat</link><description><![CDATA[The crisis has accelerated the emergence of a new social class in Europe. Dubbed &quot;the precariat&quot; by sociologists, it is made up of young people with no prospect of a decent job or a reasonable standard of living. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/precarita.jpg" length="207636" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:40:35 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greek crisis | Brussels squeezes Slovakia on rescue plan</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/922211-brussels-squeezes-slovakia-rescue-plan</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Brussels putting pressure on Slovakia: make a decision on the &lsquo;stability fund for the euro&rsquo;, leads Pravda, recalling that Slovakia has decided to put off [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/pravda-07092011-100.jpg" length="40676" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:35:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic-Slovakia | A Soviet take on the Prague Spring</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/875821-soviet-take-prague-spring</link><description><![CDATA[On August 21, on the 43rd anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops under the command of Moscow, the Czech press considers [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:11:24 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | Finland destabilizes bailout plan</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/869981-finland-destabilizes-bailout-plan</link><description><![CDATA[&lsquo;Finland puts bomb under EU bailout plans&rsquo;, headlines De Volkskrant, reporting on Finland&#039;s demand that Greece put up collateral against Helsinki&#039;s participation in the Greek [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/19082011-DeVolkskrant-100.jpg" length="12476" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:53:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Poland | Abortion debate flares up again</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/764161-abortion-debate-flares-again</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Abortion a phone call away&rdquo;, headlines Newsweek Polska, noting that while Poland has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe (only Malta and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/newsweek-polska-08072011-100.jpg" length="41330" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:54:21 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Jobs | Youth unemployment endemic in Europe</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/742451-youth-unemployment-endemic-europe</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;No jobs for the young in Europe&quot; leads the daily Politiken, which quotes Eurostat figures showing that one in five Europeans under 25 is unemployed&nbsp; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110627politiken.jpg" length="6847" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:18:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Belgium | We need a velvet divorce (De Volkskrant, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/728711-we-need-velvet-divorce</link><description><![CDATA[In 1992, Czechoslovakia separated peacefully into two countries. Today neither Czechs nor Slovaks regret the decision. Maybe it&#039;s time Belgium did the same thing, says De Volkskrant’s Central and Eastern Europe correspondent. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/cost-belgium_0.jpg" length="187719" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 16:48:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia – Czech Republic  | After the Russians, ecological disaster</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/724061-after-russians-ecological-disaster</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Twenty years without the Russians&quot; On June 21, 1991, as Soviet troops  left the territory of Czechoslovakia, 100,000 soldiers and their  families and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/SME-20062011_100.jpg" length="2227" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:49:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Has the euro been worth it? (Týždeň, Bratislava)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/656711-has-euro-been-worth-it</link><description><![CDATA[Adopted just before the financial crisis hit, the single currency is still seen as the recipe for prosperity by most Slovaks. But many economists are beginning to wonder if Bratislava made the right choice. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Bromley_euro.jpg" length="151947" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 18:43:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Labour market | Work in Germany? Yes, maybe (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/626561-work-germany-yes-maybe</link><description><![CDATA[On 1 May, the doors will open wide for Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans now free to work in Germany. But no one expects a stampede. Quite the opposite: German companies will have to woo the new guest workers ardently and assiduously. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/work-solar.jpg" length="30066" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:38:44 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Ice hockey paves the way to Moscow thaw</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/622201-ice-hockey-paves-way-moscow-thaw</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Only a day left before the hockey,&quot; announces SME in the run-up to the International Ice Hockey Federation Championship which opens in Bratislava on 29 [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/SME-28042011-100.jpg" length="10196" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:03:02 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Eurozone crisis | The dangerous game of bailing out (Týždeň, Bratislava)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/598751-dangerous-game-bailing-out</link><description><![CDATA[After Greece and Ireland, now it&#039;s Portugal&#039;s turn. But isn&#039;t helping out indebted countries with the money of other indebted countries going to kill the euro? A Slovak columnist doesn&#039;t understand just what the EU is playing at. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Sampaio-portugal-crisis_0.jpg" length="62554" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:19:50 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary | Orbán's plan to re-revolutionise Hungary (Týždeň, Bratislava)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/580541-orban-s-plan-re-revolutionise-hungary</link><description><![CDATA[On March 15, Hungarians commemorated their Revolution of 1848. This year, however, the image of the historical revolutionary Kossuth has faded into the background behind that of the current Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Hungary-protest.jpg" length="152724" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 18:06:55 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Education | Slovakia, land of doctorate tourism</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/569451-slovakia-land-doctorate-tourism</link><description><![CDATA[Increasing numbers of foreign students are &ldquo;coming to Slovakia to pick up a title&rdquo; of doctor, reports SME. The Bratislava daily explains that around ten [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110325sme.jpg" length="6551" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:11:13 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia-Hungary | Proposal for dual nationality</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/508351-proposal-dual-nationality</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;Dual nationality, but only following a stay of more than one year, five years of study, or marriage,&rdquo; SME reports on the Slovak proposals for [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/110218sme.jpg" length="7520" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:48:48 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Diplomacy | Visegrad Four celebrate 20 years</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/504371-visegrad-four-celebrate-20-years</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;You remind us of freedom&rdquo;, headlines SME, quoting a tribute by Angela Merkel to Slovakia, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Guest of honour at [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/SME-16022011-100.jpg" length="31236" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:15:07 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Stephff | Temperatures rising | Cartoon (The Nation, Bangkok)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/picture/488461-temperatures-rising</link><description><![CDATA[Temperatures rising (Cartoon)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/picture/Stephff-europe-490.jpg" length="74120" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:39:32 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Immigration | Fertility, GDP, and the Vietnamese... (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Warsaw)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/468631-fertility-gdp-and-vietnamese</link><description><![CDATA[Is there a way to satisfy a need to grow the labour force and set right the wrongs of history? In differing contexts, Hungary, Romania and Spain have found a solution, reintegrating “compatriots” living abroad. Here, a conservative Polish columnist offers his own peculiar remedy for the immigration “threat”... (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/crowd.jpg" length="112441" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:49:45 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | All the news for the price of two beers</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/467561-all-news-price-two-beers</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Three euros please!&quot;&nbsp;leads Respekt. This is the modest sum Slovaks will pay in the coming weeks to access full content of news articles on the [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:07:15 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Corruption, caught in the Web (Respekt, Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/450261-corruption-caught-web</link><description><![CDATA[Like other countries in Central Europe, Slovakia is battling to overcome the scourge of endemic corruption. The government in Bratislava has decided to attack the problem by publishing documents relating to public calls for tender on the internet. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/screen-keyhole.jpg" length="17975" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:20:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Pharmaceutical industry | European guinea pigs</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/441931-european-guinea-pigs</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the next big step in globalisation, and there&rsquo;s good reason to wish that it wasn&#039;t,&rdquo; remarks Vanity Fair. American pharmaceuticals companies are increasingly testing [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:26:10 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary-Slovakia | Feuding Bratislava and Budapest are talking</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/429791-feuding-bratislava-and-budapest-are-talking</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;At least Viktor Orb&aacute;n and Iveta Radičov&aacute; met,&rdquo; reports SME. On 14 December the Hungarian and Slovakian prime ministers met up in Bratislava for the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/101215sme.jpg" length="6927" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:20:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Geopolitics | Central Europe - we need to make friends (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/421921-central-europe-we-need-make-friends</link><description><![CDATA[The two main forces structuring Central Europe — the EU and NATO — might not go on forever. For this reason, Lidové noviny argues that the countries of the region should take action to heal the wounds left by the wars of the 20th century before they are once again caught in a geopolitical squeeze between Germany and Russia. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/hand-vice.jpg" length="26626" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:33:27 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | Half a million working poor</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/413631-half-million-working-poor</link><description><![CDATA[Portugal &ldquo;already has 500,000 working poor&rdquo;, reports Jornal de Not&iacute;cias, noting that within the working population, the 20% highest-paid earn 6.1 times more than the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/02122010-Jornal-Noticia-100.jpg" length="18580" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 14:40:46 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debt crisis | Slovaks fear a eurozone house of cards</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/404961-slovaks-fear-eurozone-house-cards</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The eurozone is at risk of collapse.&rdquo; With a front-page headline that quotes Slovak Finance Minister Ivan Miklo&scaron;, SME reports that Slovakia is preparing to [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/25112010-SME-100.jpg" length="12358" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:10:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | A bullet in the heart of the nation</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/383051-bullet-heart-nation</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;They assassinated Ernest Valko,&rdquo; reports SME in the wake of the 8 November murder of the well-known and &ldquo;enormously influential&rdquo; Slovak lawyer. Valko, an associate [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/101110sme.jpg" length="6181" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:13:34 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Greece  | Greek life support a mistake</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/334181-greek-life-support-mistake</link><description><![CDATA[The decision by a meeting of Europe&rsquo;s finance ministers to grant further financial aid to Greece has been greeted with scepticism in Prague. According to [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:32:40 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Backroom antics at Ministry of Defence</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/330741-backroom-antics-ministry-defence</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The vice-minister: how we cheated&quot; headlines Mlad&aacute; Fronta DNES, which secretly recorded a business meeting between a high-ranking official of the Czech Defence ministry and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/03092010-Dnes-100.jpg" length="13895" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:35:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Random killing spree or race crime?</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/327181-random-killing-spree-or-race-crime</link><description><![CDATA[The entire front page of SME is devoted to a single story: on 30 August in Bratislava, &ldquo;a gunman shot seven of his neighbours before [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/31082010-SME.jpg" length="13726" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:22:23 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Slovakia | Bratislava beats back Berlin</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/324251-bratislava-beats-back-berlin</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Merkel won&rsquo;t give in on Greece,&rdquo; headlines Pravda: the German chancellor in fact expressed her &ldquo;regrets&rdquo; at Slovakia&rsquo;s refusal to contribute to the Greek bailout [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/26082010-Pravda-Slovakia.jpg" length="12777" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:25:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Hungary-Slovakia | Two towns divided by a consonant (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/321501-two-towns-divided-consonant</link><description><![CDATA[Komarno and Komarom are twin towns divided by the Danube and centuries of rancour between Slovaks and Hungarians. But this flashpoint of nationalist tension that spilled over into an international incident last year is not all what it seems... (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/komarno-2.jpg" length="58569" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:51:18 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Stability pact | That figures</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/318101-figures</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The European Commission has agreed to study an alternative model for calculating its public debt,&quot; reveals P&uacute;blico, speaking of the letter signed by nine member [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:20:39 +0100</pubDate></item>
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