THE MOVEMENT for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) has decided to take a different approach to the upcoming national elections in 2006. Hoping to avoid the big losses it suffered in 2002, the opposition ...

IN THE FIRST voter opinion poll released by a widely trusted polling agency since the formation of the HZD party in July, the splinter group recorded five percent support, while its parent HZDS fell ...

Despite Vladimir Meciar's reputation for corruption and human rights abuses, the ex-boxer and former prime minister of Slovakia may yet return to power, writes Kate Connolly. It is a sad but true fact ...

No two figures have dominated postcommunist Czech and Slovak politics quite like Vaclav Klaus and Vladimir Meciar. Both rose quickly to prominence following the collapse of communism, first as ...

A FOUR-LANE superhighway runs from the heart of Slovakia westward, through the capital of Bratislava and straight up to the Austrian frontier – to what was once the Iron Curtain but is now the ...