Foreigners: Events around Slovakia
Tips for events around Slovkaia between April 1 and 10, including wine and exotic food tasting, travel evening, concerts, theatre performance, beauty contest casting, fashion show, parties, and more.
Tips for events around Slovkaia between April 1 and 10, including wine and exotic food tasting, travel evening, concerts, theatre performance, beauty contest casting, fashion show, parties, and more.
Non-partisan MP Miroslav Beblavý published on March 30 a list of 93 persons who have failed in managing public funds.
In his first day in office, new Health Minister Tomáš Drucker (a Smer nominee) cancelled a contract worth almost €18 million.
Gangman Jozef Roháč received a life sentence not just from a Slovak court but also from a Budapest court – for a bomb attack and two murders.
Polish LOT airlines introduced a new line between Košice and Warsaw on March 30, with flights departing six times a week to and from Košice.
A former top reformist in Slovakia, now advisor to the Ukrainian government, could become Ukraine’s next finance minister even without losing his Slovak passport, depending on the outcome of coalition talks.
The NBS predicts that the Slovakia’s GDP will increase by 3.2 percent in 2016 and by 3.3 percent in 2017.
Two weeks after parliamentary elections I went to Revúca to test some of the hypotheses explaining the election results. I wonder how many of the 17 percent of locals who voted for the party of the regional governor Marian Kotleba have noticed that the roads administered by the regional government have not improved at all.
Blueprint, the technique of textile printing various patterns with indigo, is waiting to be inscribed on the UNESCO heritage list.
THE new government has met for the first time since the general election; it appointed a new group of state secretaries.
The kingpin of the Bratislava gang Sýkorovci, Robert Lališ, nicknamed Kýbel (Bucket), received a life sentence.
Four out of five Slovaks consider helping people from developing countries important, according to a recent Eurobarometer poll on development cooperation and aid.
In the past year the number of Slovak companies domiciled in tax havens has grown; and this increase is expected to continue.
Health-care Surveillance Authority (ÚDZS) director Monika Pažinková resigned from her post on March 30.