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...Slovak ambassador to the U.S. Martin Bútora said that economic development within the E.U. will assuage his country’s rampant unemployment problem. Unemployment in some eastern regions of Slovakia has reached almost 40 percent, according to Cooney...
...there is a Penzion Andy across the street from the museum, itself on A. Warhola Street. A mineral water company has put Warhol's Red Lenin, Marilyn and Elvis on its labels. And a gallery called Endi (Andy written phonetically in Slovak) was opened by an occasional Warhol impersonator last year in a nearby village. All this probably wouldn't have pleased Warhol, who used to say he came from "nowhere." But the locals feel he is definitely from Medzilaborce...
...CHARGED. IVAN LEXA, 41, former Slovak secret police chief, with armed robbery, fraud, kidnapping and corruption; in Bratislava. Lexa, who fled Slovakia in 2000, was detained at a South African beach resort near the port city of Durban as an illegal alien. He was deported to Bratislava where he was arrested...
...women only increases when comparing the U.S. to many other parts of the world. According to the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the U.S. ranks 55th globally in terms of women’s membership in the lower house of the legislature—a ranking it shares with the Slovak Republic, a struggling new Eastern European country...
...does USSK do it? With the same model that its parent company says is killing its American business. The average yearly wage at the Slovak plant is just $5,500, a tenth of what a typical American steelworker earns. The Slovak government helps pay USSK's retiree health and pension costs. Unions are virtually non-existent. And the firm may have gained market share illegally. USSK is being investigated by the European Commission for allegedly dumping hot-rolled coil at prices 30% below the domestic Slovak price in the first seven months of last year. "What we see in Europe...