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...September at a meeting of E.U. ministers in the Netherlands. Is Schröder's fear justified? It's true that many of the new E.U. states look like tax paradises compared to Germany or France. In January, Poland dropped its corporate-tax rate from 27% to 19%. Slovakia this year implemented a flat income tax of 19%. The average corporate-tax rate in the 10 new members is 21.3%, while it is nearly 30% in the rest of the E.U. It is 38% in Germany and 34% in France. That's why many believe that firms may flee France...
American fans respond to a basket by yawning. We just score so often—nobody cares. We won by 40 over Papua New Guinea? Great. We beat Slovakia by 13? Why so few? And where’s Slovakia...
Cold feet can be contagious: Central European governments leading their countries into the European Union next month are suffering at the polls. In Slovakia, the governing coalition's main presidential candidate lost out to hard-line nationalist and former Prime Minister Vladimír Meciar, who's the favorite going into the final round of voting this weekend. Although the post is largely ceremonial, the return of the controversial strongman would complicate relations with its new E.U. partners, says Grigorij Meseznikov, head of the Institute for Public Affairs in Bratislava. "It's not good for the country," he says...
...started with Vincent Van Gogh. When Vincent Polakovic was a 10-year-old boy in Poprad, north Slovakia, he saw a reproduction of Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows at a friend's house, and fell in love. "I had no idea such art existed," he says. "We didn't have any pictures at home." That glimpse began a journey that has culminated in the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, a modern art gallery in the unlikely setting of an artificial peninsula jutting into the Danube's Gabc?kovo reservoir, some 15 km south of Bratislava. After teaching himself art history...
Roma Riot For Rights To protest the halving of their social benefits, thousands of unemployed Roma in eastern Slovakia went on a spree of looting and rioting. Police and military units struggled to restore order, with the worst clashes coming in Trebisov, where groups of Roma threw rocks and bottles. Roma leaders called off protests to prevent further violence and the government agreed to pay the reduced benefits weekly instead of monthly. Prime Minister Mikulás Dzurinda defended the cuts: "For 30 years, there was not enough courage to consider whether it was normal and sustainable for those...