On Thursday the governing council of the European Central Bank will meet in Bratislava.
The swiftness of the waters and their imagined depth reminds me of the Danube where it flows through Bratislava.
Yet on Friday, demonstrations in Bratislava and other major cities looked less civilised.
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"He went to Bratislava and we had a disastrous start, but I think the game came too early, " said Lawwell.
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In some respects Bratislava, the capital, feels like a suburb of Vienna, less than half an hour west by car.
In Group Three, Slovenia stopped Slovakia from clinching an automatic place in the finals by winning 2-0 in Bratislava.
This line opens development of a 1, 500-km European railway line intended to link Paris and Bratislava via Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Munich and Vienna.
After taking power in 2006 his government gave Penta a public rap on the knuckles by cancelling the privatisation of Bratislava airport.
But Mr Schreiber rejected an assertion that he was under pressure from the VW Group board to have the SUV made in Bratislava.
But for now, nobody can do much beyond scolding Vladimir Putin, whom Mr Bush met in Bratislava on February 24th (see article).
Elsewhere in the draw, highly-fancied Barcelona will play either Beitar Jerusalem or Wisla Krakow and Italian giants Juventus face Tampere United or Artmedia Bratislava.
Some smaller investment banks have also found life hard because big investors demand a global service from their investment banks, from Bratislava to Bogota.
Slovakia were ordered to play their home qualifier against Liechtenstein in April behind closed doors after their fans racially abused England players in Bratislava last October.
All had not looked well when Celtic failed to qualify for the Champions League group stages, just failing to recover after a 5-0 defeat away to Artmedia Bratislava.
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As this network develops, and as appeal of air travel falters, riding the rails between Paris and Bratislava, or Birmingham and Brussels may not seem like such a bad idea after all.
"It would be naive to take at face value comments President Bush and Russia's President Vladimir Putin made yesterday after their meeting in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, " an editorial in the Boston Globe said.
Not surprisingly, investors have fled the Bratislava exchange.
In this brave old world, I can employ a few keystrokes and so correlate my personal recollection of what was happening on that day, at that very hour, with public events in Birmingham, Bratislava or Beijing.
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All this also puts pressure on Britain's other Nato allies in Europe, with an informal defence ministers' meeting in Bratislava next week expected to be another important step on the road to securing a wider troop uplift.
"My form in the match in Belfast when Poland lost 3-2 to Northern Ireland and the earlier game in Bratislava, when we lost 2-1 to Slovakia, was related to my personal situation, " he told the Polish media.
Mr Schreiber's suggestion that Volkswagen Group's plant in Bratislava might get the new Bentley is based on its proven ability to produce SUV models for other marques within the group, such as the Audi's Q7 and the Volkswagen Touareg.
However, the main focus on Thursday will likely center on developments in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, where the European Central Bank is expected to cut its main interest rate by a further quarter of a percentage point to 0.5 percent.
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