SOME of the elderly – who may not be that old, after all – in Slovakia are dying in a very sad way: crammed in a hospital ward with several other patients, with bars on windows and at the mercy of others.
The shocking cure for our xenophobia: meeting a refugee brings instant relief from painful ignorance.
Tips for events around Slovakia, including a benefit concert, opening of the 2015/2016 theatre season, historical re-enactments and a historical picnic, a community street market, a lot of classical and jazz music, a photo-marathon, a festival of modern dance, a ballet premiere, and more.
MEDICAL trade unions dislike the activities of Penta financial group in the Slovak health sector.
WHILE Defence Minister Martin Glváč has offered three military companies for rent to private entities, he has recently acquired a new one.
BRAZILIAN company Embraco will open a new shared services centre in the eastern Slovak city of Košice.
NIGERIA has ordered 10 Slovak Božena demining machines produced by Way Industries in Krupina (Banská Bystrica Region), thereby doubling its original order of five.
IT’S HARD to understand that the Visegrad countries, who still feel the pain of the long years of lacking freedom, now fail to apprehend the human desire for life in a free country.
PROMPTED by pictures from foreign refugee camps Slovaks spontaneously started to organize themselves with the aim to help migrants staying there. On the other hand, NGOs focused on refugees integration run in emergency regime because they cannot currently draw money from euro funds.
SLOVAKIA commemorates the Day of the Victims of the Holocaust and of Racial Violence on September 9 when constitutional officials will lay wreaths and flowers at the Holocaust Memorial on Rybné Square in Bratislava.
SLOVAKIA’S foreign trade recorded a surplus of €268.8 million in July which was a year-on-year drop of €146 million, the Slovak Statistics Office (ŠÚ) announced on September 8.
BRITISH retailer Tesco may soon launch the sale of its branches in central Europe, including Slovakia.
BRATISLAVA I District Court issued the first ruling in one of the biggest scandals of first Robert Fico government (2006-10).
