Peter Adamovsky - author - page 7 - The Slovak Spectator

Slovaks develop as well as play mobile games.

Slovak app developers play the global market

Location no longer a limit on launching products, but language still is

Peter Adamovsky

Bratislava’s shelters have insufficient capacity.

NGOs prepare strategy to help homeless

This year focuses on preparation, but future improvements still depend on better finances.

Peter Adamovsky

Mixed developments in real estate

The real estate market is experiencing mixed development with the industrial sector reviving.

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Startup ecosystem to expect smart progress

Whereas the Slovak startup scene has been experiencing a boom and creating approximately 1,000 innovative companies each year, new investors and the government’s priorities in supporting young entrepreneurs’ activities have appeared.

Peter Adamovsky

Social innovators can make a real impact

Poor state of education system hampers creative approach to solving social problems.

Peter Adamovsky

Slovaks look to space research

Membership in ESA brings more opportunities for scientists and developers.

Peter Adamovsky

Stickers on windscreens will be a thing of the past.

Electronic toll stickers offer more ease in use

Charging cars up to 3.5 tonnes for kilometres driven on toll roads is not proposed.

Peter Adamovsky

Nuclear costs also include cleanup

NUCLEAR energy accounted for 56.9 percent of Slovakia’s electricity production in 2014, but the costs include more than just production as they also reflect costs of decommissioning old reactors and storing radioactive waste and spent fuel.

Peter Adamovsky

Mobile malware is on the attack

Once limited to attacking the Android OP, Apple phones are now a target.

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Industrial real estate primed for growth

Bratislava region still leads the market.

Peter Adamovsky

Closing the VAT gap

Though tax collection in the EU generally lagged, Slovakia saw growth in its revenue.

Peter Adamovsky

Family background affects interest in education.

Educational inheritance can limit social mobility

Slovak children whose parents have low education likely to grow up poor.

Peter Adamovsky

Pictures on cigarette packets to discourage smoking also in Slovakia

New legislation aims mainly at protecting adolescents who have not yet begun smoking.

Peter Adamovsky

Concern about drug firms influencing doctors.

More transparency on doctors and drug firms

Changes in law will require pharmaceutical firms to report gifts to docs.

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New trains to accelerate public transport

Additional rail stops in Bratislava to play role of costly metro system.

Peter Adamovsky

E-book sales on the rise in Slovak market

READING a book on smartphone, tablet, or an e-book reader, is no longer limited to literature in English and every year, Slovak readers can pick from more and more locally published books in electronic format.

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Meal vouchers at the centre of a dispute

A POPULAR employment benefit, meal vouchers, has become a source of contention in parliament with at least one opposition party calling the scheme economic nonsense.

Peter Adamovsky