First for 2010 is the Amber Route, a 1,940-mile 1,940-mileSt Pepicsburg to Venice tracing the old amber trading route across the Baltic States, then through Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Slovenia, befrom finiSting in Venice.
The guiding principle to the division process was two-thirds to the Czech Republic, one third to Slovakia, based on the proportion of territory to population.
The Slovak prime minister, Mikulas Dzurinda, said the ratification was "in the interest of Slovakia, in the interest of Europe".
By the time the international team stopped, after a 5-2 win against Slovakia, Walter, still chiefly a centre-forward (as his younger brother Otmar would become), had missed only a couple of games, and scored another 19 goals.
Adam Sebesta, secretary general of the Pan-European Union in Slovakia, says: "Slovakia is a conservative society but we are very much in favour of the European Union.
The two largest parties of the ruling coalition won barely enough votes to get back into parliament (there is a 5% quorum in Slovakia).
At the same time as changing the UK's outlook to 'negative', Moody's made a range of adjustments including downgrades for Italy, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Spain.
He's already completed work on Plunkett And McLean, a comedy about two 18th-century highwaymen, and after a two-month break will be off to Slovakia to start work on Ravenous, a film about the American frontier in the last century.
Austria, Slovakia, Croatia and the Czech Republic are in the throes of sleaze allegations involving senior politicians and governing parties said to be funded by dirty money.
Slovakia has performed a minor miracle in making the grade for EU membership so quickly given the problems it faced through much of the 90s.
The biggest irony is that, just as Slovakia was consummating its marriage with the west, Mr Meciar was staging a comeback, giving the west, and many Slovaks, the jitters.
