Tips for events in Slovakia taking place between October 30 and November 8, including festivals and concerts of classical music, jazz and swing evenings, an opera premiere, a charity ballet, a modern dance festival, folklore, and more.
SLOVAKIA’S skeet shooter Danka Barteková (31) has become the youngest-ever chair of an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission, after being appointed as head of a six-member team which will oversee preparations for Lausanne 2020.
THE EUROPEAN Commission endorsed the acquisition of the shops owned by the Austrian network of hobby markets Baumax in Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Slovenia by German DIY retailer Obi.
SLOVAKIA kept its 29th place in the Doing Business 2016 report, which compares the business environment of 189 countries across the globe.
THE OPPOSITION will try to oust Health Minister Viliam Čislák at a parliamentary session starting at 11:00 on October 30.
THE BORDER and Aliens Police have officially ceased to cooperate with the non-governmental organisation Human Rights League (HRL) which serves as an implementation partner of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Slovakia.
UNLESS the issue of InterCity (IC) trains, operated at a loss by state-owned ZSSK carrier, on the Bratislava-Košice line is resolved, private Czech railway carrier RegioJet stands ready to abandon its servicing of the route as early as mid-December 2015.
DEFENCE Minister Martin Glváč has scrapped the launched bidding competition to rent the loss-making state company Letecké Opravovne Trenčín (LOT - Aircraft Repair Company Trenčín) to private management.
POLICE have published the names of five people charged in the case of Slovenské Elekrárne (SE), the country’s dominant electricity producer.
