Prime Minister Fico’s Russian card. OSW COMMENTARY NUMBER NUMBER 175/01.07.2015

Since the beginning of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict, the position of Slovakia’s left-wing government towards Russia has been ambiguous. Bratislava has accepted the EU sanctions targeting Russia and the plan for strengthening NATO’s eastern flank. At the same time, however, Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government has maintained close political relations with the Kremlin. It has called for the intensification of Slovak-Russian economic relations and has repeatedly criticised the sanctions, speaking in tandem with Russian propaganda in so doing. Slovakia’s Prime Minister is hoping that by playing the role of one of the leaders in the EU and NATO who are most willing to cooperate with Russia, he will gain economic benefits and win votes in next spring’s upcoming parliamentary elections. Despite numerous pro-Russian gestures, Slovakia has been limiting the number of areas in which Moscow could exert pressure on Bratislava. As it strives to become independent of Russia, Slovakia has ensured possible alternative fuel supplies for itself. Moreover, it has been gradually replacing Russian-made military equipment with equipment made in the West. The Slovak government does intend to develop the country’s cooperation with Russia, including in strategic areas involving supplies and transit of oil and gas, as well as supplies of nuclear fuel. Nevertheless, it has been making efforts to gain easy access to an alternative source of supplies in each of these areas. Beset by crises, Russia has ever fewer economic cooperation opportunities to offer Slovakia, and Slovak businesses operating on the Russian market have to take into account the growing risk of insolvency of local contractors. To a great extent, therefore, Slovak-Russian relations have been reduced to rhetorical statements confirming the desire for closer cooperation, and to visions of joint projects accompanied by an ever shorter list of feasible cooperation initiatives.

The EU Blue Card - is there a need for a more comprehensive approach? IES Policy Brief Issue 2015/3 June 2015

This Policy Brief reviews the implementation of the EU Blue Card (BC) Directive in Member States and offers some suggestions on how to improve its potential. Firstly, it traces back the origin of the current partitioned approach in labour migration and the objectives that an EU labour migration policy should achieve according to the Commission. Secondly, it reports on the content of the directive and its implementation in Member States. Thirdly, there is an analysis of the weaknesses of the directive in terms of numbers of BCs issued and harmonization achieved. Finally, recommendations are put forward on how to improve EU labour migration policy.

Manual for organization of an AEC card catalog.

"June 1955."

Cumulated list of unclassified index card errata.

"January 1954."

Cumulated list of unclassified library catalog card information changes..

"May 1955."

Executive summary of the NAEP 1992 reading report card for the nation and the states : data from the national and trial state assessments /

"September 1993."

NAEP 1996 science report card for the nation and the states : findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress /

Mode of access: Internet.

Specifications for 16mm microfilming of library card catalogs /

Mode of access: Internet.

Applavsi festivi fatti in Roma per l'elezzione di Ferdinando III. al regno de' romani dal ser.mo princ. Mavrizio card. di Savoia /

Illustrations: allegorical title page and eleven plates, some of them numbered. Four plates depict decorations designed by the architect Orazio Turriani: the colonnade on the Piazza della Spada in Rome, two plates of a triumphal arch, and a fountain structured as a nymphaea. Seven plates depict temporary structures used for fireworks display, including 2 states of plate numbered "70" or "02". The plates are etched by Luca Ciamberlano after Niccolò Tornioli.

Annales ecclesiastici : ab anno quo desinit Card. Caes. Baronius MCXCVIII usque ad annum MDXXXIV....

Retrato calcográfico del autor.

Annales ecclesiastici : ab anno quo desinit Caes. Card. Baronius MCXCVIII usque ad annum MDXXXIV....

Frontispicio calcográfico arquitectónico.

Annales ecclesiastici : ab anno quo desinit Caes. Card. Baronius MCXCVIII usque ad annum MDXXXIV....

Frontispicio calcográfico arquitectónico.