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A homeroom teacher hands out mid-year report summaries to first-year pupils at Ľudovít Fulla Primary School in Košice on 31 January 2025, marking the end of the first term of the 2024/2025 school year.
Volkswagen Slovakia production line in Bratislava on 24 March 2023.

News digest: Slovakia’s car industry faces a Trump shock

Europe moves to summer time this weekend, with clocks jumping forward by one hour. That means one thing: an hour less in bed.

SNS chair Andrej Danko.

News digest: SNS chair causes stir in coalition, refuses to back up proposals

New speaker in parliament, national football team’s World Cup hopes, and an interview with a German Studies scholar.

A sign at the dairy farm in the village of Baka, Dunajská Streda district, on 21 March 2025.

News digest: Emergency, crying cows, secret burials and Brussels plots

MPs return to parliament, surprise guest at the Government Office, and controversy over Slovakia’s top film awards.

One of the farms affected by the foot-and-mouth disease.

News digest: Gvt scrambles to contain foot-and-mouth disease

Legendary Bratislava inn for sale, how to get medical help, and Slovak biathlete's fabulous performance.

News digest: Slovakia confirms foot-and-mouth disease, begins culling livestock

Rural areas of Slovakia experience 'transport poverty', taboo literature uncovered in 20th century Bratislava, and Slovakia Is Europe protests sweep Slovakia again.

European Union leaders attend a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, March 20, 2025.

News digest: Fico brought his veto to Brussels—then found nothing to block

While a fire claims young lives, poverty tightens its grip in Slovakia.

Samuel Migaľ (back) and Radomír Šalitroš (front).

News digest: Robert Fico's gvt has new minister and with him new first

Small Slovak satellite doing big things in space, interesting Gothic history of Zvolen, and no money for iconic monument.

MP and pandemic investigator Peter Kotlár

News digest: Fico’s pandemic investigator claims to be in talks with Obama

Fico’s holiday spot, a minister’s spending spree, and a porcupine on the loose.

Juraj Cintula.

News digest: Man who shot PM Fico charged with terrorist attack

Slovak goalkeeper crucial to UK's football club success, a chance of more taxes, and the story of an unlikely music festival.

Lenka White, the corresponder of Czech news channel CNN Prima News.

News digest: Pro-Russian Czech CNN correspondent asks Musk to 'help' Slovakia

The Slovak basketball talent weaving towards the NBA, a Ukrainian working in the Slovak corporate world, and a Chinese delegation headed to Brezno.

Coronavirus pandemic investigator and lawmaker Peter Kotlár (SNS) at a press conference on "the results of an analysis of Covid-19 vaccine batches used in Slovakia", held on March 13, 2025 in Bratislava.
Spoločnosť ZVS holding v Snine otvorila v piatok 4. októbra 2024 novú linku na výrobu 155 milimetrovej delostreleckej munície. Na snímke výroba tiel pre veľko-kalibrovú muníciu v zrekonštruovanej hale na výrobu 155 milimetrovej delostreleckej munície v spoločnosti ZVS holding v Snine v piatok 4. októbra 2024. FOTO TASR - Roman Hanc

News digest: Fico talks peace, but Slovakia’s arms exports tell a different story

A rising Slovak football star in the Netherlands, an extra day off for students, and a rainy forecast.

Na snímke zľava poslanci NR SR Andrej Danko a Rudolf Huliak (obidvaja SNS) počas ustanovujúcej schôdze Národnej rady Slovenskej republiky (NR SR) IX. volebného obdobia 25. októbra 2023 v Bratislave. FOTO TASR - Jakub Kotian
Romana Tabaková

News digest: Former MP scolds actors – audience drowns her out. Unscripted “drama” goes viral.

Brash “journalist” takes aim at EU chief, a reminder to buckle up, and a stressful week ahead for some students.

Miroslav Radačovský

News digest: Fico’s coalition is in a mess. The opposition might (accidentally) help it out

A Frenchman’s quest in Slovakia, a hockey sensation from the east, and what to do in the days ahead.

Prime Minister Robert Fico boards a plane at M. R. Štefánik Airport in Bratislava before departing for an emergency meeting of European Union member state leaders in Brussels on Thursday, March 6, 2025.

News digest: Fico’s gain at EU summit, firm no to Macron

One Smer politician in Brussels, another in Moscow, a third in Bratislava claiming that Russia would be a reliable neighbour for Slovakia.

From left: MP Rudolf Huliak (independent, Smer nominee for Sports and Tourism Minister) and President Peter Pellegrini.

News digest: President Pellegrini names EU, NATO sceptic as minister

Increase in prices evident in many areas, meet the first Slovak feminist, and a tip on a musical.

PM Robert Fico

News digest: Brussels ‘in for a fun time’, Fico says ahead of EU talks

New Dutch ambassador to Slovakia, Matovič’s “movie nights”, and reconstruction work underway beneath the UFO restaurant.

Finance Minister Ladislav Kamenický (Smer).

News digest: Slovakia’s big bond experiment starts today

The difficulties of translating a Slovak video game, police officer suspected of beating children.

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