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Author: Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator

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US Steel to stay in Slovakia’s Košice

March 27, 2013May 27, 2013 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator Slovakia

US Steel Corporation will not sell its U.S. Steel Košice (USSK) subsidiary in eastern Slovakia. Representatives of the Slovak government

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Slovak prime minister Robert Fico
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Slovakia’s Fico marks one year since landslide victory

March 19, 2013May 27, 2013 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator Slovakia

One year after Smer took the country in a landslide history, the Prime Minister Robert Fico described the current situation of

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Europe News 

Slovakia still in talks over steel mill

January 14, 2013 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator

Reports last year about the potential sale of the country’s largest steelworks and one of the flagship United States investments

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Europe News 

Slovakia: Filmmaker faces prosecution

November 7, 2012November 7, 2012 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator

The sound engineer working on ‘The Disease of the Third Power’, a critical documentary about what its creators call the “black

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Europe News 

Slovak MPs abolish their immunity from prosecution

August 3, 2012August 2, 2012 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator

In a rare expression of unanimity – albeit one that had previously eluded them for almost 20 years – Slovak

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Europe News 

Slovak Archbishop’s unexplained sacking prompts dismay, protests

July 10, 2012July 10, 2012 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator

For the first time time since Slovakia became independent in 1993, members of the Catholic congregation have launched public protests against

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