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In Bratislava, Slovakia's Foreign Minister Mikulas Dzurinda said Friday that his country was also ready to participate in the project.

The rouble area did not long outlive the Soviet Union; the monetary union of the Czech Republic and Slovakia lasted only a matter of weeks.

Slovakia, a more conservative place, tends to adopt a more sceptical approach to liberal innovations like relaxing drug laws.

However, the Slovakia international has now seemingly changed his mind and says he would be happy to stay with Rangers if City allowed it.

He made the call during a meeting near the Russian capital with the visiting prime ministers of Bulgaria, Moldova, and Slovakia.

It is hard to remain an unabashed eurosceptic when you see how much EU membership meant to countries such as Poland or Slovakia .

The company has decided to produce their "New Small Family" set of vehicles, picking Slovakia as their ideal location.

Slovakia's Martin Skrtel, who has enjoyed some success against the forward with Liverpool, conceded that his opponent is "one of the best" .

Likewise, Slovakia can't be happy with its draw Tuesday against New Zealand, widely considered one of the worst teams in the tournament.

The huge "Brotherhood" pipeline connects Russia with Ukraine and Slovakia before supplying up to a quarter of western Europe's gas.

Four years before she died, she was imprisoned in the Csejte Castle, now in Slovakia, where she remained bricked in a set of rooms.

Over the last decade, it has added twelve new members, including Poland, Slovakia, Cyprus, Malta and Romania.

Looking west, over the Carpathians and into Slovakia, we watched the sky turn a deep blue and lightning strike the far-off hillsides.

The resolution, drafted by the United States and France, was also co-sponsored by Denmark, Ghana, Greece, Slovakia, and the United Kingdom.

Bratislava was the last city visited by Mister Bush on his five-day trip to Europe. In addition to Slovakia, he visited Belgium and Germany.

Slovakia should definitively stop applying for the right to organise any international events. Usually we lose money and end up embarrassed.

Slovakia got a consolation with the last kick of the game when Robert Vittek netted from the penalty spot.

Slovakia has condemned the move and retaliated with its own law banning double citizenship.

Marek Hamsik The Slovakia midfield player was tracked by Liverpool a year ago.

Slovakia's hesitation over expanding the bail-out fund almost gave him "a heart attack" .

The reason he said is that Slovakia's gas-fired electricity generating stations have been cut off from Russian natural gas.

Slovakia has mastered much of the difficult transition from a centrally planned economy to a modern market economy.

Slovakia is against the stationing of a U. S. radar base on Czech soil, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Czech Television (CT) on Sunday.

The Slovakia international sustained the injury in a heavy challenge during last Thursday's victory over Unirea Urziceni in Bucharest.

But a number of euro zone countries have yet to ratify it, including Austria, Cyprus, Estonia, Malta, the Netherlands and Slovakia.

If in this complaint France's deportation of foreigners will also be noted, then I don't see a problem with Slovakia also being mentioned.

The adoption of the euro by such new members as Slovenia, Slovakia and now Estonia was a reminder of their dwindling influence.

An announcement next week could coincide with a meeting of NATO defence ministers in Bratislava, Slovakia, due next Thursday and Friday.

Lowlands are found in the southwestern along the Danube river and southeastern parts of Slovakia.

For most drugs, usage is higher in the Czech Republic than in Slovakia (see chart). Among the young the difference is particularly marked.

Slovakia has a 9-year compulsory education, meaning that everybody must finish primary education at least.

Thursday's win in Johannesburg gave Slovakia four points in the opening round and propelled the team to a second-place finish in Group F.

The Group has production facilities in Switzerland, Germany, the Czech Republic, the UK, France, the United States and Slovakia.

This weekend the World Dog Show is taking place in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Fitch's rating for Italy is now at the same level as it rates Malta and Slovakia.

Tomorrow I will be in Slovakia, so have to stop writing now and find time for a crash course in the language.

Under the rule of the authoritarian populist, Vladimir Meciar, Slovakia had become a playground for crooks and spooks.

In eastern Europe, meanwhile, Slovenia has already adopted the euro and Slovakia will do so by the end of the year.

Through its subsidiaries it has around a quarter of the retail markets in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.

this made: sell appear on consignment invoice in a German national, producer not involved SK (Slovakia) and CH (Switzerland) two countries.

Wen Jiabao's Portuguese visit is part of a European tour covering the Czech Republic, Slovakia and France.

Three older reactors have been decommissioned under the terms of Slovakia's accession agreement with the European Union.

It is now building in lower-cost countries like Hungary and Slovakia, where productivity is higher compared with wages and taxes.

Robert Fico's reign as Slovakia's prime minister looked set to end when his coalition partners performed badly in a parliamentary election.

The border between the Czech Republic and Slovakia is open for citizens of the former Czechoslovakia.

Slovakia has come under particular scrutiny since the hardline Slovak National Party joined the ruling coalition in 2006.

In 2010, Slovakia's first gay pride month ended in violence, she said.

The fund we run is for a large Czech bank and has office, residential and retail units in Prague and Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

The disruption of supplies also spread to Italy, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech republic, Hungary and Slovenia as well as Poland.

Significant improvements in governance over the past decade occurred in countries as diverse as Indonesia, Tajikistan, Serbia, and Slovakia.

GIO How is life in Slovakia since the freedom of Communist rule?

In Slovakia the centre-left prime minister, Robert Fico, is likely to be re-elected.

In February 2008 the head of a car-parts factory was seized after workers realised that he was planning to move the operation to Slovakia.

Slovakia has so far been spared the pain felt by the likes of Hungary and Latvia.

Slovenia and Slovakia have demonstrated that, given the right policies, it was possible to enter the eurozone early on.

Occupying the capital of the day as the National Day of Cuba, Cambodia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Prior to that, he was manager of two Hella production plants in Slovakia.

Four VVER 440 units in Bulgaria and two in Slovakia were closed as a condition of those countries joining the European Union.

Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.

Thousands of ethnic Hungarians have demonstrated in Slovakia, to protest against a new law that limits the use of minority languages there.

This pattern of behavior influences cut-down cash sales and the number of visitors in traditional restaurants in Slovakia.

The acting British ambassador to Slovakia is now actually two people: a husband and wife who share the job on a four-month rotation.

So far, Slovenia has adopted the single currency and Slovakia will do so next year.

At the other stand Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, a base of relative economic stability in the central European heartland.

Shtefano is a rising star in the field of baking as visual art, earning him a following in this city near the border with Slovakia.

A friendly against Slovakia and a World Cup qualifier against Ukraine hardly set the pulses racing after what we've been witnessing .

Spain, Italy, and Portugal would naturally form the nucleus of the second group, with Slovenia and Slovakia being possible candidates.

Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania and the U. S. have ordered the C-27J, which has also been selected by Slovakia.

Hungarians form sizeable minorities in Romania and Serbia; in Slovakia they are a tenth of the population.

Hungary has a conceptual problem in accepting that Slovakia is a real country.

And what do you think would happen when someone from the EU sent humanitarian aid to Slovakia?

Until last month, another married couple served as British ambassadors to Austria and Slovakia, respectively.

In 1996 the company opened a new factory in the Czech Republic, followed by another production site in Slovakia (2004).

Correction: In the original version of this article, we said that the Czech Republic and Slovakia went their separate ways in 1989.

Slovakia's centre-right government, elected with high hopes in June, is in trouble over this.

The Dutch and Finns, under pressure from Eurosceptic parties, are increasingly obstructive, as is Slovakia.

A delay in a key vote by Slovakia on expanding the euro zone rescue fund has also kept investors cautious.

The 16 other euro-zone countries had already ratified the EFSF deal by the time Slovakia voted.

Before leaving for Washington Mr. Bush met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Kyle Lafferty has been ruled out of Northern Ireland's 2010 World Cup qualifier against Slovakia on Wednesday.

The prime minsters of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia meet in Bratislava.

"Samsonite was in Belgium 30 years before they decided the perfect solution was to invest in Slovakia, " notes Mr Osvolda.

Many ex-communist countries have big national minorities: think of Hungarians in Slovakia.

This contribution sought to discover consumer behavior pattern of fast food nutrition in Slovakia.

Finnish ice hockey fans attend a quarter-final match against Norway at the World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia.

When our citizens have no job, what will Slovakia look like?

Condemnation of Mr Solyom's planned visit came from Slovakia's president, prime minister and foreign minister.

Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

To ensure food safety, Slovakia has temporarily stopped imports of eggs and animal products from Germany.

Slovakia remains in the hawkish camp, along with Finland, Germany and the Netherlands. It wants more austerity and reform from Greece.

Slovakia, 15 years after Czechoslovakia split in two, appears a case study for euro benefits.

So if I want to stay in the Eurozone, I would have to move to Greece because Slovakia has destroyed it.

Public figures there stir up Slovakia's Hungarians with reheated historical wrongs.

Together with Slovakia, Slovenia has joined the euro, which Sweden, Denmark and Britain have not.

The Netherlands, Slovakia and Austria have also expressed reluctance on the issue.

Slovakia is the last country in the 17-member currency zone left to approve the revamped EFSF.

Employment rates in Slovakia, Hungary and Poland hover at or below 60% of the working-age population, compared with Denmark's 77%.

Slovakia is still cheaper than the Czech Republic.

He proposed that Slovakia stops "blindly trusting" the euro zone's leaders and seeks a "plan B" instead.

Could someone explain to me WHAT Slovakia owes to the Gypsies?

After capturing Poland's Bank Pekao in 1999, he united banks in Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania, the Czech Republic and Turkey.

Now Slovakia's economic policy has again been riling policymakers in Brussels and Berlin.

The prime minister, Iveta Radicova, hurriedly reassured her European partners about Slovakia's continued commitment to the single currency.

Russia has warned that a price dispute with Ukraine could cause it to cut oil deliveries to three EU countries, Slovakia has said.

Slovakia came under pressure from the European Central Bank (ECB) because of its refusal "to participate in the Greek bailout. "

Indices in Peru, Russia, Romania, China, Bangladesh, Slovakia, Kuwait, Estonia and the Czech Republic complete the decade's top 10.

Slovenia and Slovakia were shielded from currency speculators by being in the euro area.

In Slovakia's case, the shift is now backwards.

If Hungarian-speakers really do not feel at home in Slovakia then they can leave.

In Slovakia, a new coalition government unites the sleaziest and nastiest parties in the country.

So why did we rank so poorly, bested by countries including Poland, Latvia and Slovakia?

Making cars in Slovakia also cuts delivery times and sidesteps import taxes.

But Slovakia is bidding for independence from the Czechs, and now needs a dam to prove itself.

Her fiction and nonfiction appears in magazines in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.

Parliaments from Slovakia (in the euro) and the Czech Republic (outside) could balk.

Slovakia takes the same stand with Czech on this issue.

First independent newspaper in Slovakia.

The bilateral ties have entered a new stage of development after Slovakia became an independent nation in 1993, he added.

In Romania and Slovakia attempts to reform the judiciary have stalled.

Tax breaks and other stimuli for strong foreign investors coming to Slovakia made no problems for him?

This investment is certainly a leap of faith in favor of Volkswagen Slovakia.

In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, no wedding feast is complete without them.

Greece is number one, closely followed by Slovakia, Cyprus and Spain.

The reason this time is not the sleaze and cronyism of the 1990s, but Slovakia's prickly principles.

However, the Slovakia international believes he is some way off his peak.

The number of ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia is exaggerated: many of them are in fact Gypsies (Roma).

Bratislava, Slovakia's capital, got the attention.

The mastermind of Slovakia's flat tax, Richard Sulik, has launched a new free-market party, Freedom and Solidarity.

Is it true you used to play a bit back in Slovakia?

All citizens of Slovakia are equal before the law and talk of discrimination is absurd.

Slovakia is a landlocked republic in Central Europe.

Slovakia and Slovenia are safely inside the eurozone.

Slovakia is bidding for independence from Czech.

The idea is to be available on the 24th against Slovakia in our last group game.

In 1918, Slovakia joined with the regions of Bohemia and neighbouring Moravia to form Czechoslovakia.

SLOVAKIA is in shock; France in uproar.

The centre said Slovakia's Roma faced persistent discrimination and lived in conditions that constituted a grave human rights violation.

Slovakia, like Romania, has a large ethnic Hungarian minority.

In February 2009, Slovakia issued a stamp with the scent of the narcissus.

Southern Slovakia is home to roughly 500, 000 ethnic Hungarians, about a tenth of the country's population.

World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.

European expats rated Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, as their 20th choice and Romania's capital of Bucharest in 14th place.

It could also cite a precedent for leaving a currency union without undue dislocation: Ireland (1979) and Slovakia (1993).

Slovakia - Shake the green field: Go Slovakia!

Annual sales are expected to top $120 billion in 2010 -- more than the gross domestic product of Belarus and Slovakia.

Sinclair and Cummings are pictured. 16 year old Stoch was signed in the summer from Slovakia.

Slovakia will take on the Czech Republic later today.

The 16 other euro-zone countries hadalready ratified the EFSF deal by the time Slovakia voted.

A woman throws back her hair swimming pool in the village Velka Mana southern Slovakia, on July 11, 2010.

Slovakia's left-leaning populist government has been needling Hungary since it took power in 2006.

Slovakia will play the winner of Group E in the first round of the elimination stage on Monday.

1992 - The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia starting on January 1, 1993.

The Czech Republic is a land-locked country in central Europe that is bordered by Germany, Austria, Poland and Slovakia.

Martin Skrtel was the only Liverpool player to take part in Slovakia's 2-1 defeat to Denmark.

Explicitly racist parties come and go in some parliaments; in Slovakia, one is in the government.

"Cash for clunkers" car-scrappage schemes boosted countries, such as Slovakia, with big car industries.

Fans celebrate a goal scored by Paraguay against Slovakia during a South Africa 2010 WCup soccer game in Asuncion, Sunday, June 20, 2010.

New Zealand defender Winston Reid headed an equalizer in the dying seconds to earn a 1-1 draw with Slovakia.

Slovakia made the cut when the criteria were last assessed, in May 2008, and joined in January.

Forests cover over 40% of Slovakia's territory.

We didn't want to overly reward Slovakia for a 7-0 win over tiny San Marino, or the U. S. for an 8-0 pasting of Cuba.

Group D leaders Germany face San Marino on 2 June in Nuremberg and Slovakia on 6 June in Hamburg.

Why did Warsaw not negotiate with Berlin, which was hinting at an offer of compensatory territory in Slovakia?

And they want Slovakia hardman Skrtel, 26, to toughen up their defence.

Slovakia's GDP per head (at purchasing-power parity) is $23, 000, compared with Greece's $27, 000.

Italy hope he can return for the final Group F fixture against Slovakia.

I have friends who have lived in central Europe who say that Slovakia is reminiscent of Scotland.

Group prediction: 1. Italy, 2. Paraguay, 3. Slovakia, 4. New Zealand.

Intesa San Paolo of Italy, for example, owns the biggest bank in Serbia and the second-biggest in Croatia and Slovakia.

Slovakia has recommended not to travel to affected regions in Japan and delay planned trips to other regions, including Tokyo.

One is to fix the public finances. Slovakia's deficit has risen to 6. 8% of GDP, following an economic contraction of 4. 7% last year.

And Volkswagen, which builds SUVs in Slovakia for export, produced 238, 000 cars last year.

On the other hand, the biggest fast food chains such as McDonald's and KFC are glorying in Slovakia.

Martinovic evaluates the legitimacy of the concern that Hungarians might break away from Slovakia

Ireland (Dublin), Czech republic (Prague), Slovakia (Portugal), bratislava (Lisbon)

Slovak ambassador to China: "Towards Guitar" enhancing friendship between China and Slovakia

Updated national teams from Europe (Denmark, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey)

Zone D: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungaria, Croatia

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