THE PERSISTENT opposition to refugee quotas and some of the strong statements that Prime Minister Robert Fico voiced with regard to the refugee crisis in Europe have led to suggestions that European socialists should suspend Smer, the ruling party in Slovakia, from within their ranks.
Think global, act local. The government of Robert Fico seems to be applying this rule, favoured among environmentalists, in reverse.
THOUGH rallies against corruption or immigration can draw thousands of people, none recently held in Bratislava brought more to the streets than the second National March for Life.
WHILE plans of Russian Gazprom and its partners in western Europe to extend the Nord Stream pipeline endanger the future position of Slovakia in transit of natural gas from Russia westwards via Ukraine, the Eustream company is looking for ways to keep its business profitable.
SLOVAK cabinet approves investment incentives for three investors at its September 23 session which in total equate to more than € 7.7 million.
THE SLOVAK Interior Ministry has announced it is preparing to use a multi-purpose guidance barrier to prevent a huge wave of refugees from heading towards the country, which is gradually being positioned along the Hungarian-Slovak border.
ANASOFT Litera is a literary prize annually bestowed by a private IT company. This year, prose writer Veronika Šikulová won it for her fiction book recalling her recently deceased mother, Medzerový plod, the title of which is a humorous play on words.
THE Goethe Uni college in Bratislava will most probably cease to exist before the start of next years parliamentary elections, Education Minister Juraj Draxler said on September 23.
“I WOULD rather go into infringement procedures than accept this dictate,” Prime Minister Robert Fico said in reaction to the adoption of refugee quotas by a European Union qualified majority vote that came despite Slovak opposition.
PRIME Minister Robert Fico sacrificed Slovakia's position in the European Union for the sake of his pre-election campaign.
MONIKA Pažinková is charged with investigating the former director of the state-run health insurance company Všeobecná Zdravotná Poisťovňa (VšZP) over dubious contracts, but her husband is a partner in one of the offending companies -- leading to allegations she has a conflict of interest.
THE CASTLE chapel at the Krásna Hôrka Castle regained three bells after the original ones were destroyed by the 2012 fire.
THE SLOVAK Parliament approved mandatory quotas for Slovak music on radio airwaves on September 23, as part of the amendment to the Broadcasting and Re-transmission Act sponsored by the Culture Ministry.
A TOTAL of 18 embassies, plus the Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia, have voiced their support for the respect for universal human rights and their commitment to advance the human rights of all persons in a joint statement published on September 23, before the Pride March organised for the coming weekend by the LGBTI community.
BASED on a decision of the European Union’s interior ministers on September 22, Slovakia should accept 802 refugees in total – 190 from Italy and 612 from Greece, the spokesman for the European Commission Representation in Slovakia Andrej Králik, said.
THE SLOVAK PARLIAMENT passed a legislative amendment on eGovernment on September 23. The bill was submitted by the Finance Ministry andleads to significant changes in three areas.
