News digest: No ban for KHL players from national team

A large goat breeding cooperative shuts down. Public defender of rights' chair vacant for months.

13. sep 2022
President Zuzana Čaputová.

President appoints new ministers, criticises PM

Being an expert today is not enough, President Čaputová says.

13. sep 2022
SZĽH President Miroslav Šatan.

Moral compass takes some Slovak players to KHL, and thus to Putin

The Slovak hockey federation sees no problem with athletes playing in the KHL league and for the national team.

13. sep 2022
Artillery ammunition, illustrative stock photo
Jana Otriová 13. sep 2022
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13. sep 2022
Public Defender of Rights Mária Patakyová left her office on March 29, 2022.

People's rights under threat as Slovak parliament fails to elect ombudsman

The last public defender of rights, Mária Patakyová, left her post five months ago and no replacement has been chosen – a sign of the lack of esteem in which politicians hold the office.

13. sep 2022

News digest: Opposition's win after president promises referendum

Heger's candidates for ministers and a language dilemma over the British king's name.

12. sep 2022
Britain's King Charles III leaves Aberdeen Airport as he travels to London following Thursday's death of Queen Elizabeth II, in Aberdeen, Scotland, Friday September 9, 2022.

Slovaks face dilemma over the new British king's name

Prince Charles has visited Slovakia twice.

12. sep 2022
President Zuzana Čaputová during a press briefing on September 12, 2022.

Slovakia will hold opposition-initiated referendum

The opposition dissatisfied with President Zuzana Čaputová's decision.

12. sep 2022
Richard Sulik (left) and his fellow SaS ministers have filed resignations as ministers of the cabinet of Eduard Heger (right).

Slovakia’s coalition concocts a novel, and peculiar, governing mix

But who exactly will be responsible for the performance of the new ministers?

12. sep 2022
Slovakia has found itself in a middle-income trap.

Illegal Eurovea terrace restaurants to be demolished

New building plans are already in the works.

12. sep 2022
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Heat Producers: It is as if two million people do not exist

An average increase of 140 percent in heat prices should be expected.

12. sep 2022
PM Eduard Heger and President Zuzana Čaputová.

Heger finds three new ministers, still seeking education minister

The prime minister has asked President Zuzana Čaputová to appoint him as interim education minister.

11. sep 2022

A night in a glass cell. Mansion in central Slovakia came up with unusual experience

Long-time decaying monument in Gemer region receives unconventional use.

Marcela Ballová 10. sep 2022

News digest: Slovak leaders honour Queen Elizabeth II

Slovakia begins commissioning the third unit of the Mochovce nuclear power plant, a unique paving design is launched in Bratislava, while the capital names a thoroughfare after Maria Theresa.

9. sep 2022
The new, original paving design.

Original paving design offered free to public and private developers in Bratislava

The design evokes motifs by important Slovak artists like Miroslav Cipár, Ľudovít Fulla and Milan Dobeš.

9. sep 2022
Gently does it: Nuclear fuel is loaded into reactor of the third unit at the Mochovce nuclear power plant.

Mochovce nuclear power plant begins loading fuel into new reactor

Third unit should start generating power soon, with fourth unit due to be launched less than two years later.

9. sep 2022
Radvanský Jarmok, a traditional fair of crafts and folk music, takes places in Banská Bystrica this weekend.

Weekend: Bathing in sweat, half-naked people indulge in sauna temple shows

Traditional fairs and grape harvest events take place over the weekend.

9. sep 2022
Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II was a role model and an inspiration, top Slovak state officials say

Her 2008 visit to Slovakia was one of the most notable events in the country's history, declares speaker of parliament.

8. sep 2022

News digest: Slovakia secures more LNG supplies

Holding a jazz concert in 1960s Czechoslovakia was no simple matter. Learn more in today's digest.

8. sep 2022
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