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Slovak egg-shaped house charmed people in Times Square

It also won an award at the prestigious NYCxDESIGN 2019 event.

6. jun 2019
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Armed forces will purchase new tactical vehicles

The maximum price was set to €321 million, excluding VAT.

6. jun 2019
Kyseľ gorge in Slovenský Raj
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Spectacular Slovakia #38: A slightly terrifying kind of paradise

Don’t go to Slovenský raj without a good pair of hiking boots and some nerve.

6. jun 2019
The exploded nuclear reactor Chernobyl
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Power, politics and catastrophe: HBO’s Chernobyl is explosively real

It feels particularly relevant now to see how those in a position of power make decisions that contradict science because of political convictions.

Angel O. Madrid 6. jun 2019
Tourists in Bratislava
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Foreigners: Top 10 events in Bratislava

Tips for the top 10 events in the capital between June 7 and June 16, plus regular services in different languages, training, temporary exhibitions and highlights of the year.

6. jun 2019
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Roma parties have no chance of entering parliament in Slovakia yet

Roma politicians do not have to always promote Roma topics.

5. jun 2019

VAT frauds can be creatively conducted, a well-known retailer proves

The Financial Administration also managed to confiscate 24 million cigarettes and 16.5 tonnes of tobacco in the past two months.

5. jun 2019
President-elect Zuzana Čaputová announced further names of her advisors on Facebook on June 5,2019.

Čaputová has posted the names of six new advisors on Facebook

New MEP Michal Šimečka and Radovan Pala, both members of Progressive Slovakia, will help the president-elect in the office.

5. jun 2019
Slovak PM Peter Pellegrini (left) with Russian PM Dmitrij Medvedev (right) in Moscow on June 6, 2019.

Pellegrini met with Medvedev in Moscow. What did they talk about?

Slovakia's Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajčák labelled Russia a key economic partner.

5. jun 2019
The city park of Sky Park project

Zaha Hadid project brings a new public park to Bratislava

New park will offer amphitheatre, event lawns, walking and running routes.

5. jun 2019
Following Smer's landslide victory in 2012, Robert Fico became the prime minister of a one-party government, unprecedented in Slovakia.

Is Slovakia a mafia state?

We did come close in the past. What protects us from becoming a mafia state?

5. jun 2019

Slovak archaeologists found gemstones of Old Christian community in Kuwait

Amethysts probably come from Sri Lanka and are a testament to the long-distance trade of the Old Christian Nestorian community, which inhabited today's Failaka Island in the Persian Gulf in the Middle Ages.

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Globsec 2018 discussion. L-r: Czech PM Andrej Babiš, Slovak PM Peter Pellegrini, EC Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič.

EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier will speak in Bratislava

The security conference in Bratislava is expected to break several records.

5. jun 2019
The German company BHS-Sonthofen will build a manufacturing hall in the Prešov industrial park.

BHS-Sonthofen to build a manufacturing plant in Prešov

Roughly 100 people should find a job at the brand-new plant in Prešov's industrial park.

5. jun 2019
PM Peter Pellegrini

Pellegrini favours Kremlin over the D-Day anniversary

Pellegrini will not travel to Normandy although British PM Theresa May addressed him earlier than when he received an invitation from Moscow.

5. jun 2019
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Special levy on retail chains is the most controversial law of 2018

Representatives of law firms in Slovakia share their opinion on the most controversial legislative changes adopted in 2018.

5. jun 2019
Ex-police corps president Tibor Gašpar and current Interior Minister Denisa Saková

Police knew about Vadala's link to the mafia, inspection confirmed

The police control, ordered by current Police Corps President Milan Lučanský, also suggests a crime could have been committed.

4. jun 2019
Miriam Lexmann (centre) and her KDH colleagues

Christian Democrats question the results of the EP election

The party refuses to be the one that should wait for the “Brexit mandate”.

4. jun 2019
Slovaks are willing to spend more money than any other European nation in 2019.

Slovaks want to spend the most in the EU

They want to spend money mostly on relaxation.

4. jun 2019
Red tape remains one of the biggest obstacles for doing business in Slovakia, according to various rankings.

Are Slovakia’s anti-bureaucratic packages simply a consolation?

The third package focuses on the digitalisation of starting a business, while the fourth is in the preparation stage.

4. jun 2019
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