Quote of the week

“I don’t understand how you come up with such bollocks.”

VšZP head Miroslav Kočan (Source: SME)

PM Robert Fico to state-run health insurer VšZP head Miroslav Kočan, asking him to scrap the revitalisation plan for the insurer.

News digest: Slovakia marks anniversary of one of its biggest accidents in water transport

People are obliged to show Covid passes, the Bratislava's Old Town promotes its most beautiful trees and construction of the traditional ice house in the High Tatras has started.

Jana Liptáková 6 h

The production of iron and steel, cement, aluminium, industrial fertilisers and electricity is most fit for ecologisation.

Slovakia’s industry strives to be greener, needs more money and time

Companies in Slovakia innovate to reduce emissions.

Jana Liptáková 15 h

Opening of the time capsule of Michael's Tower.

Time capsule stored in Bratislava's St Michael statue 176 years ago reveals its secrets

The public can see the items found in the box in the Bratislava City Museum at the Old Town Hall this weekend.

Jana Liptáková 9 h

About 100 to 110 Tatra chamois live in the NAPANT national park, central Slovakia, but only two are white.

New Low Tatras attraction fascinates and worries hikers

Two white chamois have been observed in the national park, but their colour exposes them to danger.

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