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Slovakia has become one of Central Europe's strongest economic performers over the past few years. The new government's demonstrated commitment to the continuation of prudent policies aimed at ensuring euro adoption in January 2009 has secured investor confidence and should help sustain this status. www.finance.gov.sk
Company taxation/Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base: The European Commission presents a progress report on the preparatory work made before finalising its proposal due in 2008

Following a first progress report in 2006 (IP/06/448), the European Commission has adopted a second Communication on the progress towards a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB). The Commission, in...
Brusel, 03.05.2007 more...
Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (help·info)), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey borders eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest, Greece to the west, Georgia to the northeast, Armenia, Azerbaijan (the Nakhichevan exclave), and Iran to the east, Iraq and Syria to the southeast. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Black Sea to the north. Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers to mark the border between Europe and Asia, thus making Turkey transcontinental.[1] The region comprising modern Turkey has overseen the birth of major civilizations such as the Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. Because of its strategic location, where two continents meet, Turkey's culture has a unique blend of Eastern and Western tradition, often described as a bridge between the two civilizations. A powerful regional presence from the Adriatic Sea to China in the Eurasian landmass between Russia and India, Turkey has come to acquire increasing strategic significance.[2][3] Turkey is a democratic, secular, unitary, constitutional republic whose political system was established in 1923 under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, following the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I. Since then, Turkey has become increasingly integrated with the West while continuing to foster relations with the Eastern world. It is a founding member of the United Nations,[4] the Organization of the Islamic Conference,[5] the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development[6] and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe,[7] a member state of the Council of Europe since 1949,[8] and of NATO since 1952.[9] Since 2005, Turkey has been in accession negotiations with the European Union, having been an associate member since 1963.[10] Turkey is also a member of the G20, which brings together the 20 largest economies of the world. Wikipedia
Turkish parliament debates early election call

By Hidir Goktas ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament began debating a proposal on Thursday for early national elections in July, a move intended to end a political crisis that has pitted the...
Ankara, 03.05.2007 more...
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Samsung Electronics LCD

On Monday, Samsung Electronics LCD started building its new plant for the production of LCD modules in Voderady near Trnava. The firm is investing €320m (Sk 10.7bn) into the new plant where it will directly...
Voderady, 02.05.2007 more...
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba. On July 31, 2006, Castro, after undergoing intestinal surgery for diverticulitis,[1] transferred his responsibilities to the First Vice-President, his younger brother Raúl Castro. While the transfer was not intended to be permanent, there are no indications when or if he will return to his previous duties. He led the revolution overthrowing Fulgencio Batista in 1959 and shortly after was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Cuba.[2] Castro became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965, and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic. In 1976 he became president of the Council of State as well as of the Council of Ministers. He also holds the supreme military rank of Comandante en Jefe (
Castro fails to appear on May Day

Cuba's leader Fidel Castro has failed to appear at Havana's annual May Day parade, fuelling speculation about the state of his health. The 80-year-old is suffering from an intestinal ailment and has not been...
Havana, 01.05.2007 more...
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born February 26, 1954), became the Prime Minister of Turkey on March 14, 2003. He is the leader of the Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP, or Justice and Development Party) Early life and career Erdoğan was born in Istanbul, but spent his early childhood in Rize on the Black Sea Coast before returning to Istanbul at the age of 13. He was educated at a religious Imam Hatip school and at Marmara University's Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences (İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi) . Erdoğan played semi-professional football for 16 years and worked for Istanbul's municipal transport company, IETT and became active in politics with the now-defunct National Salvation Party (Milli Selâmet Partisi), led by Necmettin Erbakan. After the military coup of 12 September 1980, he gave up football and left to work in the private sector, before going for mandatory military service in 1982 as a commissioned officer. Wikipedia
Turkish reformist Gul named presidential candidate

By Hidir Goktas and Paul de Bendern ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling AK Party picked reformist Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as its presidential candidate on Tuesday, a decision that may ease tension with...
Ankara, 24.04.2007 more...
Boris Tadić is the son of Ljubomir Tadić, a philosopher and a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Nevenka Tadić, a psychologist. He was born in Sarajevo, People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (then People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). His grandparents were killed during World War II, by Ustashas in the Independent State of Croatia because of their Serbian origin, and are considered victims of the Holocaust. He attended elementary and high school in Belgrade and graduated in Clinical Psychology of Social Psychology at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. He worked as a journalist, clinical psychologist, taught psychology at the First Belgrade Gymnasium and was a researcher of science projects on the Institute for Psychology. He worked actively in the democrat opposition, for which he was imprisoned more than on one occasion. He founded and was the first Director of the Center for the Development of Democracy and Political Skills and for the past few years he is working on political enlightenment for the peoples of Serbia, Republika Srpska, Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria. [edit] Political career Tadić has been a member of the Democratic Party since its founding in 1990, performing several roles within the party including Secretary of the General Committee and Vice-President of the Executive Board of the Party. He was also an MP in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia during Milosevic's rule, as a member its Committee for Science and technology. On the 27 February 2000 gathering of the Democratic Party, he was elected Vice-President of the Party. In 2002 he became Minister of Telecommunications in the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; later he was Minister of Defence in the Council of Ministers of Serbia and Montenegro. In 2003 he was elected as a Representative to the Assembly of Serbia and Montenegro and became Acting Head of the Group of Democratic Party Representatives. In 2004 he was elected as a Head-Representative of his party to the National Assembly of Serbia. Later in this year, he was elected President of Democratic Party, one year after the assassination of the former party president, Zoran Đinđić. In the first round of the Serbian presidential election, 2004 he won 27.3% of the vote. In the second round, on 27 June 2004, he defeated Tomislav Nikolić with 53.24% of the vote. [edit] Presidency This article is part of the series: Republic of Serbia History of Vojvodina | of Kosovo Politics of Vojvodina | of Kosovo Government National Assembly President: Boris Tadić Prime Minister: Vojislav Koštunica Constitution of Serbia Political parties Elections: 2006 constitutional referendum 2003-2007 parliamentary 2004 presidential Foreign relations Military Subdivisions Districts Municipalities Economy Communications Transportation National Bank Culture Religion Music Geography Demographics Mountains Rivers Cities Places A-M | N-Z See also: Portal:Politics view • talk • edit He was officially sworn in as the president at a ceremony in Belgrade on 11 July 2004. Tadić is the first Serbian head of state that has met officially with the Pope. This meeting occurred during the official trip of the President to Vatican on 28 September 2005, where he met Pope Benedict XVI. Boris Tadić was the first president to visit Montenegro after the independence referendum in 2006. He had met with the Montenegrin President and Prime Minister and expressed will for mutual cooperation and friendship between the two independent countries. He raised the flag of Serbia in front of the UN General Assembly building in New York City, after the Union of Serbia and Montenegro ceased to exist. One of the main promises Tadić made prior to the elections, was the opening of the National Office of the President (Narodna Kancelarija Predsednika) which would help out people in trouble. He fulfilled his promise, and the office proved to be a successful project as a very active institution which helped many people with their varied problems. During the ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in October 2006, Boris Tadić together with Ferenc Gyurcsány, the prime minister of Hungary, revealed a memorial plaque placed at the entrance of Serbian embassy, dedicated to Imre Nagy. [edit] Security issues On 1 December 2004, Tadić’s presidential motorcade was involved in a traffic accident. Miroslav Cimpl, a Serbian employee of the US Embassy, refused to make way for the motorcade and crashed repeatedly into the vehicles in it, though the president’s car was not affected. The employee managed to flee, but after reporting the incident to his employer, the US Embassy, he was subsequently arrested. This incident petrified the general public because it evoked memories of a failed attempt at assassinating Zoran Đinđić in February 2003, when a truck driven by Zemun clan member Dejan Bagzi Milenković crashed into Đinđić's motorcade on an open highway. Many at first believed this second incident to be an attempt to assassinate Tadić, but a subsequent police investigation found no evidence to support this claim. Minister of Police Dragan Jočić said during a press conference that Cimpl got confused when he saw the flashing lights of the motorcade and did not know what to do. The police concluded that it was only a traffic accident and that there was no intention to harm the President. Cimpl stayed in jail for two weeks, before being released (see (Halifax), (B92)). [edit] Personal life Besides his native language, Tadić also speaks English and French. He is married and the father of two children.
Austrian chancellor seeks face-saving Kosovo deal

By Boris Groendahl and Alexandra Zawadil VIENNA, April 13 (Reuters) - Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer is working with Serbia on an acceptable way of implementing a United Nations envoy's plan for...
Wiena, 24.04.2007 more...
Foto : Boris Jelcin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Е́льцин (help·info)) (February 1, 1931 – April 23, 2007[1]) was the first President of the Russian Federation from 1991 to 1999. The Yeltsin era was a dramatic period in Russian history — a period marked by revolutionary political change, restoration of democracy - together with enormous political and social problems, one of them being open widespread corruption. In June 1991 Yeltsin came to power on a wave of high expectations for change and disillusionment with the Communist rule. On June 12 Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic with 57% of the vote, becoming the first popularly elected president in Russian history. But Yeltsin never recovered his popularity after endorsing radical economic reforms in early 1992 (see Russian economic reform in the 1990s), which were widely blamed by his opponents for deteriorating the living standards of most of the Russian population. By the time he left office, Yeltsin was a deeply unpopular figure in Russia, with an approval rating as low as two percent by some estimates.[2] Following the dissolution of Soviet Union in December 1991, Yeltsin—vowing to transform Russia's socialist planned economy into a capitalist market economy—endorsed a program of
Boris Yeltsin dies

By Christian Lowe MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who buried the Soviet Union then led Russia through its chaotic first years of independence, died on Monday aged 76, the Kremlin...
Moscow, 23.04.2007 more...
Cuba's President Fidel Castro - the world's longest-serving political leader - has not been seen in public since July and speculation is continuing about his health, with unconfirmed reports saying that he is in a serious condition. Here, world affairs correspondent Paul Reynolds looks at the story of his life. The ailing Castro remains a symbol of revolution in his 80th year He is instantly recognisable both from his appearance - the beard and the military fatigues - and from his first name alone: Fidel. The name is expressed with affection by some, with hostility by others but it calls up history for everyone. The story of his life is very much the story of our times: revolutionary movements, the Cold War, East v West, North v South, communism v capitalism - except that most of the world has passed him by. Fidel Castro has remained the same, a symbol of revolution, a communist who has survived the fall of communism. He continues to inspire his followers with slogans and five-hour speeches. He rails against the United States, its economic and trade embargo and against the evils of free markets - and he maintains his rule with an iron grip that sends opponents to prison for years. Intolerance He is praised for standing up for the oppressed of Latin America, for opposing the Yankee imperialist, for making Cuba into a more equal society than many, for developing Cuba's health service and sending doctors abroad to help others. Cuba's assistance to the island of Grenada led to a full-scale US invasion And it wasn't only doctors he has sent abroad. He despatched troops to Angola and Ethiopia in support of fellow revolutionaries. His hand was seen in many a revolutionary movement in his own continent. But he is also condemned for intolerance, for keeping his people poor and for refusing to see the benefits of economic liberalisation that even the communists of China have embraced. He has stopped his people from leaving the island, leading them to risk their lives in rickety boats to try to get out. At one stage in the early years of the Reagan administration he was accused of trying to take over Central America for the Soviet Union by revolution. Washington at that time saw a path that led from the guerrillas of El Salvador through Nicaragua to Cuba and right up to the door of the Kremlin. Brink of nuclear war Cuban assistance to the small and then revolutionary island of Grenada in the Caribbean prompted a full-scale US invasion. President Castro has remained in almost permanent confrontation with the United States - and it with him. Such thaws as there have been, like under President Jimmy Carter, have always frozen up again. The US came to the brink of nuclear war with the Soviet Union The American embargo on Cuba has been used by both sides - as a policy by the US to isolate Cuba and as an excuse by Fidel Castro for the island's poverty. He has cut a giant figure on the world stage during the 47 years he has controlled Cuba - at one point bringing the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war. It was the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 that propelled him into worldwide prominence. Before that he had been just a glamorous revolutionary leader. He had overthrown the dictator Batista in a classic guerrilla war and had fought off an American-led invasion by Cuban exiles on the Bay of Pigs in 1961. But when Nikita Khrushchev decided, with Fidel Castro's agreement, to station nuclear missiles in Cuba itself, the island leader turned from being a thorn in the side of the Americans into being a mortal threat. It was only the skilled diplomacy of Jack Kennedy (and of Khrushchev in the end) that saved the day, and Fidel's own island from destruction. Strengthened The then US defence Secretary Robert McNamara met President Castro in 1992. He said the Cuban leader told him there were 162 nuclear missiles in Cuba at the time of the crisis. He asked Castro if he had recommended they be used. The answer was:
Castro resumes official business

Cuba's Fidel Castro has held talks with a top delegate from China in what is thought to be his first official act since his illness last year. Mr Castro - who has handed over power temporarily to his...
Havana, 21.04.2007 more...
Traian Băsescu (born November 4, 1951) is a Romanian politician. He is the current President of Romania, inaugurated on December 20, 2004. He won the office in the 2004 presidential election. Prior to becoming President, he was the Mayor of Bucharest from June 2000 until December 2004. On April 19, 2007, the Romanian Parliament voted in favour of Băsescu's impeachment,[1] with 322 votes for and 108 against (the minimum number of votes needed was 233).[2] As the Constitutional Court of Romania acknowledged the Parliament's vote on 20 April 2007,[3] Băsescu will remain suspended as president until a referendum scheduled to take place on May 20, 2007 confirms whether the impeachment should stand. Băsescu is the first president in the history of Romania who has been officially suspended. Wikipedia
Suspended President Traian Basescu says he's not resigning as president, calls people to referendum

Romanian President Traian Basescu said in a televised speech on Friday evening that he would not resign from office following his suspension by the Parliament yesterday. He had previously said that if...
Bucharest, 20.04.2007 more...
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Бори́с Абра́мович Березо́вский) a.k.a. Platon Elenin (born January 23, 1946) is a Russian-born billionaire. He emigrated to the UK in 2001 where he was granted political asylum. Berezovsky was born in Moscow into a Jewish family. He studied forestry and then applied mathematics, receiving his doctorate in 1983. He later became a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1991 and the chair of a laboratory in its Institute of Control Sciences. Berezovsky started in business in 1989 under perestroika by buying and reselling automobiles from state manufacturer AutoVAZ. Officially, Berezovsky was called upon as an expert in development of optimized system of management of the enterprise. In 1992 a new middleman company
Diplomatic rift as Russia says: give us Berezovsky

Terry Macalister, Ian Cobain and Simon Tisdall Thursday April 19, 2007 The Guardian Relations between London and Moscow threatened to plummet to a post-cold war low yesterday amid renewed Russian demands...
London, 19.04.2007 more...
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