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 strongest punch. Since 20 years, almost everything has changed. I write „almost“ because the change of mentality is always [...]

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 one among a few Slovakian-Hungarian settlements, divided by the state border. Slovakian “Komarno” and Hungarian “Komarom” are situated on [...]

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 European Commission’s antitrust case against Microsoft, an EC source said Tuesday.“ My question is: Why, [...]

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 and place where it all can start. One way to cover all R&D expenditures is to allocate financial resources [...]

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 by assuming an active role in the development of the community, the economy and the environment [...]

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 time, a few fundamental things have happened: for instance, The Implementation Authority for OPIS has published [...]

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 international politics, security threats or climate change. On the other hand, some facts suggest that even with Obama, EU could [...]

  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 values and responsible defense and security issues. But on the other hand, there is my personal [...]

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 is our editor-in-chief, Mr. Radovan Geist, co-founder and co-owner. Congratulation! Except this fact, EurActiv.sk has published 1,403 analyses, 199 [...]

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 two main leaders (Mr. Medvedev and Mr. Putin) and their policies. The conclusion seems to be normal [...]