Slovakia - Factors To Watch on June 22

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CURRENCY RESERVES

The central bank will release its weekly foreign currency reserves data, 1200 GMT.

PARIAMENT SESSION

Parliament continues its June session.

EU LEADERS BACK NEW EURO BIDS, MEPS WANT RULE CHANGE

European Union leaders backed on Thursday the bids of Cyprus and Malta to adopt the euro next year amid calls to change euro zone entry rules in a new treaty overhauling the bloc's creaking institutions.

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FORD KNOCKS DOWN SLOVAK PLANT REPORT, EYES ROMANIA

U.S. carmaker Ford on Thursday dismissed a media report saying it was considering building a new assembly plant in Slovakia.

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CROWN IN TIGHT RANGE VS EURO, SEEN STEADY

The Slovak crown floated in a narrow range against the euro on Thursday, after a bout of profit taking knocked it off Wednesday's five-week highs, and dealers said the unit was likely to stay flat in the short run.

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PRESS DIGEST

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COMMUNIST SECRET POLICE FILES

The Nation's Memory Institute has opened files and documents of people who were in connection with the communist secret police StB.

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2008 ELECTRICITY PRICES

The energy market regulator (URSO) seeks to preserve next year's electricity prices at current levels, while energy distributors said final prices have yet to be set.

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SPA PROJECT

A Slovak company Magma Zafir plans to invest 107 million euros ($143.4 million) to build an ocean spa in the southern Slovak town of Bardonovo.

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EURO ADOPTION CONCERNS

Two fifthts of Slovaks are worried about the planned euro adption in 2009, an opinion poll conducted by the Statistics Office showed. Some 33 percent of Slovaks sees euro-adoption as a benefit.

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($1=25.70 Slovak Crown) ($1=.7463 Euro)