http://www.institute.sk/author.php?spectator Metafox/0.9.2 (production stable) en http://www.institute.sk/article.php?5691 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 06:50:00 GMT article-item-5691 Cronyism practices connected with the ruling party revealed in the recent Conservative Institute study on EU funds drawing at municipal level. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?4763 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:30:00 GMT article-item-4763 Human rights made it onto the agenda of issues discussed between Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák and a Chinese delegation visiting Slovakia on February 15. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?4652 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:30:00 GMT article-item-4652 The origin of the bodies on display has provoked controversy at similar shows elsewhere, and some Slovak human rights activists have expressed concerns about this too. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?4654 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:30:00 GMT article-item-4654 Slovak law contains some provisions that restrict competition in relation to packaging and packaging waste. Radovan Kazda, an analyst with the Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik, wrote in an article for the Trend weekly that this objection pertains to the fact that Slovakia prefers domestic companies for evaluation of dangerous waste. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?3682 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:30:00 GMT article-item-3682 Peter Gonda of the Conservative Institute of M.R Štefánik, a think tank, said that from the point of view of solving the serious public finance problems and their causes, the cabinet’s draft budget is “too cautious, not ambitious enough, politically scared, and does not thoroughly address the root causes of the budget problems”. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?3489 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:30:00 GMT article-item-3489 Eyebrows are being raised in Europe over a tug of war taking place in Slovakia over whether to agree to participate in the European Union’s financial safety-net programme to support the eurozone. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?3457 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:30:00 GMT article-item-3457 The Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik, a think-tank, has outlined core pillars of a programme statement for any new government of Slovakia to follow so that the country does embark on the same path as Greece, the SITA newswire reported. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?3333 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:30:00 GMT article-item-3333 Prime Minister Robert Fico called on Minister Štefanov to resign on March 9 in response to the findings of a Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) audit of the bulletin-board tender... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?3329 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:30:00 GMT article-item-3329 Ondrej Dostál, the director of the Conservative Institute of Milan Rastislav Štefánik, known also as a human rights activist, has been following the Cervanová case for many years and believes there are numerous controversial, unanswered aspects. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?3197 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:30:00 GMT article-item-3197 Analysts of the Conservative Institute of M. R. Štefánik, an NGO, made a survey concerning procurement costs of websites of Slovak ministries. As much as €73,058 is the difference between the most expensive and the cheapest websites, which departments of the Slovak government produced for EU co-financed operational programmes. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?3098 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:30:00 GMT article-item-3098 According to Peter Gonda of the Conservative Institute, a conservative think tank, the systemic and original causes of the crisis are governmental regulation and extensive monetary expansion by central banks. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?3033 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:30:00 GMT article-item-3033 Ruling coalition dismisses complaints by 105 judges... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2821 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:30:00 GMT article-item-2821 Radovan Kazda of the Conservative Institute think-tank said that an effective restructuring of the company has actually never happened... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2783 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:30:00 GMT article-item-2783 Radovan Kazda of the Conservative Institute think-tank said that problems with the state-run forestry company have been dragging on for several years. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2785 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT article-item-2785 Four groups, Amnesty International, Falun Gong, People in Peril and the Conservative Institute, have officially asked the police to apologise to the detained citizens whose peaceful demonstration was disrupted by people believed to have been acting on behalf of the Chinese president. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2787 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT article-item-2787 “It seems like the ministry had nothing to lose by publishing the contract anymore, since the media with their investigative work managed to deduce the undisclosed parts of the contract quite exactly,” Radovan Kazda, an analyst from the non-governmental think-tank, the Conservative Institute, told The Slovak Spectator. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2789 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT article-item-2789 “Countries have different approaches to publishing their purchase-sale contracts, depending on how much they care about the transparency of the sale, which will bring the state the highest possible income,” Radovan Kazda, an analyst from the non-governmental Conservative Institute think tank told The Slovak Spectator. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2583 Thu, 21 May 2009 08:30:00 GMT article-item-2583 Radovan Kazda of the Conservative Institute, a think tank which is frequently critical of the government, said that there are some serious questions emerging over lack of transparency. http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2533 Mon, 04 May 2009 15:30:00 GMT article-item-2533 Slovakia’s environment minister has agreed to disclose details of a contract which appears to have come as a stroke of genius – or something else – for a newly-formed company that was able to buy excess emission quotas from Slovakia for only two-thirds of the price the firm would have been charged by the Czech Republic or Ukraine... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2517 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:39:26 GMT article-item-2517 Štefanov’s nomination to his ministerial post by the SNS has attracted wide criticism from Slovakia’s political ethics watchdogs, think-tank observers and also the opposition... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2463 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:39:26 GMT article-item-2463 Without a change in the process of redistributing European Union (EU) funds, the replacement of Construction and Regional Development Minister Marian Janušek will be merely a belated gesture... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2431 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:11:53 GMT article-item-2431 The 2008 Dominik Tatarka Awards were presented to poet Ján Buzássy and environmentalist Mikuláš Maňo Huba in Bratislava on March 13, 2009... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2465 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:39:26 GMT article-item-2465 Teachers - who should, according to new legislation, become public officials as of September 2009 - could end up being prosecuted for giving students grades that are considered inappropriate... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2419 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:39:26 GMT article-item-2419 The Conservative Institute has been monitoring the use of EU funds by Slovak ministries and institutions. It found that ministries are not publishing enough information on how they handle EU funds... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?2156 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:39:26 GMT article-item-2156 José Piñera, creator of the Chilean pension reform that served as a model for the Slovak pension reform, thinks that the first pay-as-you go pillar is a pyramid system based on political promises... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1949 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:11:53 GMT article-item-1949 The Dominik Tatarka Literature Award for 2007 has been awarded to Milan Lasica and Jozef Jablonický... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1680 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:00:00 GMT article-item-1680 The M. R. Štefánik Conservative Institute of is going to establish a Non-governmental Council for Natural Diversity (MRPR). The move is in reaction to the October 11 cabinet session, which was expected to approve a Cabinet Council for Gender Equality... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1634 Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:00:00 GMT article-item-1634 The Conservative Institute has been highly critical of the ministry's reform plans. According to Zuzana Humajová, an analyst from the CI, the ministerial bill is not reform-minded in spirit... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1635 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:00:00 GMT article-item-1635 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... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1636 Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:00:00 GMT article-item-1636 Justice Ministry proposes changes to Freedom of Information Act... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1399 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:11:53 GMT article-item-1399 The Dominik Tatarka Literature Award for 2006 went to Kornel Földvári for his book O karikatúre (About Caricature) and his positive spirit. This prestigious award for literature is given to authors who write exceptional literary works exemplifying the humanistic traditions of Slovak culture... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1363 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:00:00 GMT article-item-1363 The M. R. Štefánik Conservative Institute says that Slovakia's adoption of the euro under current conditions could bring more disadvantages than advantages to the country... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1366 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:00:00 GMT article-item-1366 A study by the Conservative Institute think-tank based in Bratislava has exposed Slovakia as "a land of politicians". Four years ago, Slovak citizens elected a total of 2,926 mayors and 21,644 local councilors to local governments, giving the country 5 local council members per 1,000 inhabitants... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1048 Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:07:23 GMT article-item-1048 This year's Dominik Tatarka Literature Award went to Tomáš Janovic on March 21 for his book of aphorisms and epigrams entitled Maj ma rád (Love Me or Ask My Arse)... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1047 Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:51:22 GMT article-item-1047 Stanislav Rakús has been awarded the prestigious Dominik Tatarka literary prize for his book, Nenapísaný román (Unwritten Novel). The novel is a gentle, ironic view of intellectual society during Communism... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1046 Sun, 25 Apr 2004 08:42:34 GMT article-item-1046 The prestigious Slovak literature award the Dominik Tatarka Prize for 2003 went to the artist, professor, and writer Rudolf Fila on May 14 for his essay-book cestou (on the road)... http://www.institute.sk/article.php?1372 Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:04:00 GMT article-item-1372 Radovan Kazda from the Conservative Institute think tank criticizes the law's provisions for lacking safeguards that would ensure the fines are issued fairly...