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Land-owners are in the way

[10.09.2007, The Slovak Spectator, NEWS]

New law would ease expropriation for motorway.

The Caninet's latest attempt to remove the road blocks in the way of a cross-country motorway has been submitted to an interdepartmental review.

The Transportation Ministry has submitted a draft on one-time special measures for expropriating the land needed to complete the unfinished road sections for the motorway linking the eastern and western parts of the country.

This is the third legislative attempt to simplify and speed up the expropriation of the land that the motorway is slated to cross.

The Conservative Institute, the Initiative for Just Expropriation, the Civil Conservative Party and the Institute of Economic and Social Analysis also object to the law.

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Read the whole article published in the Slovakia`s English-language weekly The Slovak Spectator here.