PRIME ministers of the Visegrad Four (V4) grouping, i.e. Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary, discuss a possible joint venture to assist Hungary with its current migration crisis.
PILGRIMS / Pútnici, a melodrama by contemporary Slovak composer Egon Krák, has received an excellent response from an international audience at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on the evening of October 6.
ALMOST three quarters of people do not trust the Slovak judiciary system or courts; according to a poll organised by the Via Iuris non-governmental organisation in cooperation with the Focus polling agency.
THE ONLY issue of the special parliamentary session on October 7 was the amendment increasing salaries of all health care staff. The draft amendment was approved by all 119 MPs present (i.e. both coalition and opposition deputies), and is now subject to a second reading in parliament that should give the final consent.
SLOVAKIA’s foreign policy has failed, President Andrej Kiska said during a speech in parliament October 7. The country’s main foreign policy stakeholders, the prime minister and the foreign minister, however, did not hear his speech in person as they were en route to Cuba.
THE LIST of items available at the post office expanded in early October. In addition to envelopes, stamps, books, CDs and various gifts customers can now buy a phone and a SIM card for the country's newest mobile operator.
If we do not quell fear, it will befriend anger and eradicate our world.
HUNGARIAN low-cost airline Wizz Air is to launch a new link between Košice and Bristol in the UK.
THE MINIMUM wage in Slovakia will amount to €405 per month next year, as approved by the government on October 7.
THE PARLIAMENTARY Committee on the Incompatibility of Functions will not deal any further with the conflict of interests of the former head of the VšZP state-owned health insurer, Marcel Forai. Members of the committee decided so, the TASR newswire wrote on October 7.
SLOVAKIA could accept several hundreds, or even thousands of people fleeing war and violence, President Andrej Kiska said in parliament on October 7.
