Serbian Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin (l) and his Slovak counterpart Ján Richter (r)

Fight against illegal foreign workers revs up

The measures follow the reports of a Serbian reporter who anonymously employed himself in Galanta-based Samsung.

14. mar 2017
Jozef Tiso meeting Adolf Hitler on March 13, 1939

Systematic murders were not “the lesser evil”

People who adore Hitler and his ally now sit in the parliament.

14. mar 2017

Turn off the light every time you can, experts advise

Light pollution is one of the easiest forms of pollution to remove.

14. mar 2017

How to learn science in a fun and easy way

Interactive science park Aurelium opened in Bratislava.

14. mar 2017
Life on a boat in Il Tabarro / Triptych. L-R: Martin Gyimesi-Tinca, Miroslav Dvorský-Luigi, Adriana Kohútková-Giorgetta.

Puccini’s Three-in-One, Slovak premiere

In its efforts to introduce musical pieces never performed before, the Slovak National Theatre (SND) has recently offered the Triptych by Giaccomo Puccini.

14. mar 2017

Prima Banka may complete takeover of Sberbank Slovensko in late July

Prima Banka will then become the number three on the Slovak market in terms of the number of its branches.

14. mar 2017
Illustrative stock photo

Wizz Air adds new Bratislava-Sofia route as of late June

The low-cost airline celebrates one year of operations at Bratislava airport.

14. mar 2017
Lucia Žitňanská

Electronic bracelets do not seem to be effective

Only few people used electronic bracelet as an alternative sentence last year.

14. mar 2017

National anti-corruption unit examined 547 crimes last year

Out of these 357 were connected to corruption.

14. mar 2017
Andrej Danko (SNS), Robert Fico (Smer) and Béla Bugár (Most-Híd), from left, announced agreement on a way to scrap Mečiar's amnesties

Coalition agrees on a solution for scrapping Mečiar’s amnesties

It will unveil details on Wednesday, March 15.

14. mar 2017
Special Prosecutor Dušan Kováčik

Police, not prosecutor stopped investigation of Bašternák case

Controversial businessman Ladislav Bašternák is officially not suspected of trying to corrupt Interior Minister Robert Kaliňák, as police, and not the prosecutor as originally reported by some media, halted the prosecution of the case.

13. mar 2017
Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajčák

Foreign Ministry employee: EU-presidency competitions faked

A third employee of the Slovak Foreign Ministry claims that the orders connected to the Slovak presidency of the Council of Europe in 2016 were not clean.

13. mar 2017
Illustrative stock photo

Foreign trade in surplus again

Both imports and exports rose in January, statistics show.

13. mar 2017
Andrej Kiska

Venice Commission refuse Kiska's "No"

The Venice Commission refused to step in as arbiter and will let Slovakia resolve its own issue of Consitutional Court judge vacancies.

13. mar 2017
Anti-fascist meeting on March 11 moved to the Holocaust memorial close to SNP Bridge.

Bratislava protesters were ahead of extremists

Anti-fascist activists were quicker this year than nationalists and extremists with their street march in Bratislava.

13. mar 2017

Pulitzer prize winning journalist: Public lecture in Bratislava and Košice

Martha Mendoza will talk in Slovakia about stories which are showing the new face of a modern day slavery. Register now for the lecture for free.

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13. mar 2017
Moldava and Bodvou, 1929

Moldava free-run wine

The town of Moldava nad Bodvou in eastern Slovakia was originally not called Moldava.

Branislav Chovan 13. mar 2017

Lack of qualified labour drives up wages

As the pool of people to fill vacancies shrinks, salaries rise.

13. mar 2017
Ján Kriška in finish

Slovak wins world’s coldest ultramarathon

A Slovak doctor won the Yukon Arctic Ultra and created a new record.

13. mar 2017
A depiction of punishments in the mediaeval justice system.

How were criminals punished in mediaeval Bratislava?

People perceived justice differently in the Middle Ages.

10. mar 2017
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