NBÚ plans stricter controls

THE SLOVAK National Security Council (NBÚ) is planning tighter checks on all people in contact with secret information. If the new security proposals are approved by parliament, only the president, prime minister, parliamentary speaker, and Constitutional Court judges would be exempt.

"Passing this law would bring us up to the standards of other countries in NATO," said Juraj Puchý from NBÚ.

Anyone who worked for the communist-era secret service (ŠtB) would not be given security clearance, said Puchý, adding that there were known to be former ŠtB agents still in the current secret service.

Top stories

Janka, a blogger, during the inauguration of the first flight to Athens with Aegean Airlines at the airport in Bratislava on September 14, 2023.

A Czech rail operator connects Prague and Ukraine, Dominika Cibulková endorses Pellegrini, and Bratislava events.


Píšem or pišám?

"Do ľava," (to the left) I yelled, "Nie, do prava" (no, to the right), I gasped. "Dolšie," I screamed. "Nie, nie, horšie..." My Slovak girlfriend collapsed in laughter. Was it something I said?


Matthew J. Reynolds
Czech biochemist Jan Konvalinka.

Jan Konvalinka was expecting a pandemic before Covid-19 came along.


SkryťClose ad