THE SLOVAK national football team lost all three points for the first time in EURO 2016 qualifications losing to Spain on September 5.
SLOVAK President Andrej Kiska talked to his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko on the phone on September 3 and congratulated him on Ukraine's recent Independence Day which is celebrated annually on August 24, the TASR newswire learnt from the president’s office.
SLOVAK President Andrej Kiska talked to his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko on the phone on September 3 and congratulated him on Ukraine's recent Independence Day which is celebrated annually on August 24, the TASR newswire learnt from the president’s office.
THE POLISH van that collided with a Slovak car on September 3, killing a 32-year-old backseat passenger, was carrying 23 Syrians (20 men and three minors), who attempted to escape from the scene, Martin Wäldl from the Police Corps communication department told the TASR newswire on the same day.
FINANCES were the most frequent reason for Slovaks skipping their holiday this summer, the TASR newswire learnt from Profesia job agency, which conducted a survey on platy.sk, the salaries statistics webpage, before releasing the results on September 3.
AROUND 60 people in the refugee camp in Medveďov village, Trnava Region, barricaded themselves into the canteen on September 3, resulting in a clash with special police forces, according to the webpage of TV Markíza, a private broadcaster. No one was injured during the incident.
AFTER A hundred years, simple personal identification numbers (given to newborns reflecting their date of birth and sex) that are used now and are easy to remember, should end.
Researchers, Jewish Community Museum examine forgotten wartime history.
The Slovak government however admitted it feels under enormous pressure from its foreign partners and that “there is a real threat that we will face the pressure of the member states that the migrants are heading to, on our own”.
It’s not been a bad summer for Slovakia.
THERE are more new jobs, statistics show. The unemployment rate has hit a multi-year low in July, both in the European Union (to 9.5 percent) and in the eurozone.
FOR THE first time in Slovakia’s history, two convicts sentenced to life in prison may be released on parole.
SLOVAKIA’s budget deficit by the end of August 2015 decreased by 55.3 percent year-on-year to €1.08 billion.
THE EFFORT to present to the public the ruins of St Catherine of Alexandria’s Monastery, called familiarly Katarínka, led volunteers from the eponymous project to organise a cultural programme evening within the Night of Castles and Ruins.
Existuje milión spôsobov, ako napísať perex a toto je jeden z nich.
SLOVAK agriculture recorded a loss of €4.7 million in 2014, which was an increase of €2.2 million when compared to the loss reported in 2013, according to the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry’s report on agriculture and the food industry.
A FORMER aide of ex-premier Iveta Radicova, Martin Novotný, and former ambassador to Kenya Igor Liška, who were convicted by a Supreme Court senate of corruption relating to the renovation of a biathlon course in Osrblie and sentenced to 18 and 15 months imprisonment, respectively, will have to serve their sentences after all, the Specialised Criminal Court has decided.
POLICE officers came under attack by locals at a Roma settlement near Richňava in Košice Region on September 1. Police were summoned to the settlement by paramedics because of a brawl that erupted between approximately 250-300 locals and left some of them injured.
