European affairs
Slovakia's EU presidency begins in July and Bratislava has suddenly started resurfacing its roads with gusto. You can now drive your police-escorted limousine down Štefánikova Street without spilling your cocktail.
Slovakia's EU presidency begins in July and Bratislava has suddenly started resurfacing its roads with gusto. You can now drive your police-escorted limousine down Štefánikova Street without spilling your cocktail.
A month before the Brexit referendum, UK citizens expect few changes in their personal lives.
The ring road should be completed in 2020.
Tips for performances, exhibitions and other events in the Slovak regions between May 13 and 22, including sports, parties, live music, food festival, swing, outdoor events, market, exhibitions, exchange, restaurant day and more.
Every day we must fight against evil again and again.
But the mechanism is only part of the reforms to the EU asylum system, analysts say.
The new light Aligator armoured vehicle of Slovak production has its world premiere at the IDEB international defence equipment fair in Bratislava on May 10-12.
The disputed and much discussed construction of the national football stadium has seen a new twist of events: on May 10, Education Minister Peter Plavčan signed an agreement which seals the future purchase from businessman Ivan Kmotrík.
Tax frauds are threatening state finances; and the National Criminal Agency (NAKA) carried out a raid on May 11 in central and eastern Slovakia which saved about four million euros.
Head of the non-governmental Health Policy Institute (HPI) Tomáš Szalay should become a new member of Health Minister Tomáš Drucker’s team.
A full investigation is called for.
Police have registered an increased number of extremist criminal acts thus far in 2016.
Jo Nesbo, a world-famous crime author, fulfilled his promise given to deceased Slovak rescuer Dušan Leskovjanský by hiking fifty climbing routes around the Polish Krakow in one day.
In 2016, a total of 21 people have applied for asylum; in the same period of time, 150 people's applications were granted while 15 were rejected. Slovakia also offered complementary protection to two people, while three were denied it.
Former teacher Dana Kováčová, charged with sexual abuse of a minor, was sentenced by the appellate Prešov Regional Court on May 11 to a suspended three-year sentence with five years’ probation, and has been banned from teaching for seven years.
A two-day business forum aiming to help establish new economic relations between Germany and eastern Slovakia has been opened with panel discussions in Košice on May 11.
The government’s Legislative Council will have some new members, with the cabinet approving personnel changes proposed by Justice Minister Lucia Žitňanská (Most-Híd) at its May 11 session.