SLOVAKIA:  Governance Gets Ever Messier
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PRAGUE, Dec 20 (IPS) - The disputes within Slovakia's governing  coalition have almost caused the government's collapse.  Additional trouble can be expected, but the powerful Prime  Minister's extraordinary popularity and the weakness of the  opposition are holding the coalition together.
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BANK robberies are on the rise in Slovakia. From the beginning of this year 18 banks were robbed, and only three cases were solved.
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A PROJECT that presents Slovakia to the capitals of the European Union, entitled Slovakia - Europe In Small, continues its tour.
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SLOVAKIA's opposition parties have manufactured a fragile agreement to unite in their efforts to sack ministers of the Mikulas Dzurinda cabinet.
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PRAGUE, Oct 24 (IPS) - Corruption remains a key -- and unresolved - issue  in the Czech Republic's moves to reach the standards of  Western Europe.
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the chance to choose a government and president expected to take the country into the European Union in 2007. The unfolding drama in neighbouring Ukraine has added an extra tension to the vote.
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Politics: 4 October 2004, Monday. The annual report on Bulgaria's progress prepared by the European Union (EU) criticizes Bulgaria's slow judicial reforms, according to a BBC report.
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The latest report on world corruption by Transparency International shows that Latvia is the second most corrupt country in the EU, while Estonia was the least corrupt among the 10 new members in the 25-member union.
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ECONOMY Minister Pavol Rusko's desire to change the course of the country's nuclear programme struck its first obstacle, signalling that the EU is taking Slovakia's pre-accession commitments seriously.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on the Hungarian prime minister's admission of lying and the difficulty of selling painful reforms to voters.
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The EU leadership issue is essential. This entity, whose powers are so extensive, needs firm leadership.
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Is European Union membership bad for your health? For prime ministers of the three leading new members of the EU - Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary - it has been nothing less than fatal.
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Investor's Business Daily - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white border barrier in a symbolic extension of the EU's passport-free zone to former Eastern Bloc nations: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Support for the move is mixed, with the head of the EU's border watchdog agency warning that it will fuel illegal immigration.
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BUDAPEST, Jun 20 (IPS) - Whereas most of Eastern Europe embraces the United  States, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is finding common  ground with Russian President Vladimir Putin in both energy  cooperation and geopolitics.
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poor Balkan country, already struggling to stay on track in its drive to join the European Union. just three percent ahead of the centrist alliance of Liberal and Democrat parties.
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In 1999, Texas governor George W.  Bush publicly confused Slovenia with Slovakia at a time when  both belonged to a group of ex-communist east European states  striving to join the European Union.
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As Slovaks gear up to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the end of communism a poll out Monday suggested a majority are unhappy with post-communist reforms.