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20th Anniversary of the „Velvet revolution“ in Czechoslovakia
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Beside the birthdays, weddings, funerals and other very important moments in life, today I remember 20th Anniversary of the Velvet revolution in Slovakia (Czechoslovakia). On 17th November 1989 the totalitarian system suffered the last and the stro...
Slovakian-Hungarian Abnormality
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In Slovakia, during the recent months, we have been witnessing some anti-Hungarian mood. The most actual have been public introduction of St. Stephan – The King’s Statue in south-Slovakian city Komarno. Just for information, Komarno is on...
Mozilla as the „third part“ – not good approach!
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I am really wondering about the logic and rationality of European Commission’s decision to invite Mozilla as the „third part“ in the antitrust case against Microsoft. CNET News informs: „Mozilla has been granted a seat at the table in the...
Coffee – fuel for innovation?
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Research and development often consume considerable amounts of venture capital. However, universities do have the potential to attract the necessary capital for their educational and research activities. The coffee break may just be the right time an...
Thinking commercially, acting environmentally
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In recent decades Corporate Social Responsibility has turned out to be a vital strategy for companies to improve their existence in society and the environment. Being a complete business behavior it aims to ensure the long-term viability of business...
Information Society in Slovakia: Deeds, not words
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NOTICE: This article was prepared for and published in Connection Magazine (11/2008) of The American Chamber of Commerce in The Slovak Republic. Information and the context published in article is relevant for time period to November 2008. Since that...
Fellows, do not be over-optimistic about Barack Obama
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After Senator of Illinois, Mr. Barack Obama has become US president-elect, many European leaders expressed their high expectations immediately. Very shortly, there have been much said about multilateral approach and mutual cooperation in areas of int...
Why I expect today’s victory of Barack Obama?
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As I am thinking about presidential election in US today, unfortunately, I must predict that Barack Obama runs for victory. To be more concrete, I would vote for McCain because of his political ideas, right-oriented economic belief, ethical va...
EurActiv.sk celebrates: 10 thousandth article today!
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EurActiv.sk, Slovak member of EurActiv cross-lingual network, celebrates for the second time in September: On 2nd September we congratulated ourselves for being on-line since 5 year. Today (26th Sept), we published 10 thousandth article. Its author i...
Find similarities: Orwell’s 1984 – Medvedev’s Russia
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Today, Financial Times published article, which claims that “Russians back hardline policies.” It reffers to concrete polls taken by various Russian poll agencies. The main idea is that people of Russia have been united and they have supported tw...
Summit begins. Who will be a coward?
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Everyone knows that game on a coward – two cars drive in the same line against each other and they are about to crash. That driver becomes the winner, who will not dodge the other. International politics knows its own new gambler called Mr. Dmitrij...
Russian power play has begun
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Russian President, Mr. Dmitrij Medvedev, has just recognized independence of two breakaway provinces – South Ossetia and Abkhazia. One can say that it could be the beginning of Cold War II or maybe something worse. If we looked on current internati...
We are not blind!
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Government in Bucharest decided to replace Mr. Daniel Morar, head of national anti-corruption directorate. Official reason why he should leave his office is that national government needs him on the post of special “liaison“ in Brussels. He would...
Merkel‘s camp, keep your hands far from Russia!
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Reuters press agency published following information two days ago: “The European Union should press ahead with efforts to bind Russia to the bloc, even offering Moscow a ‘privileged partnership‘ if it shows a willingness to adopt European value...
Mr. Kaczynski, why did you travel to Georgia?
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First, I would like to congratulate French Presidency, Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Kouchner themselves, for mediating preliminary peace-plan between Russia and Georgia. The bloody conflict seems to be over and Europe can enter to the second phase of crisis m...
South Ossetia: New EU’s chance to build defense identity
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Since the most recent weekend the security environment on the periphery of Europe has changed. Russian armed forces not only operate in breakaway region of South Ossetia, but in Georgia as well. The explanations of Moscow’s steps vary from act of a...
Ms. Commissioner, stop regulating, please!
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Ms. Viviane Reding has become one of the most visible members of European Commission, mostly thanks to her resolve to change mobile telecommunication sector. If we summarized her steps, we would find various concrete proposals - from opening discussi...
Merkel‘s camp, keep your hands far from Russia!
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Reuters press agency published following information two days ago: “The European Union should press ahead with efforts to bind Russia to the bloc, even offering Moscow a ‘privileged partnership‘ if it shows a willingness to adopt European value...
