It's always hard to compare two very different countries. But comparisions help us understand ourselves better and we can learn from one another.
THE ROBERT Fico cabinet has proposed a general government budget for 2016 with an ambitious deficit shrinking to 1.93 percent of GDP.
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) officially opened its first permanent office in Bratislava in the presence of European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefcovič, Finance Minister and Deputy Premier Peter Kažimír, Economy Minister Vazil Hudák and EIB President Werner Hoyer in early November.
ENGLISH theatre, or rather theatre in English language, does not have deep roots in Slovakia, and is not the most-visited genre (except maybe for some performances at festivals, comfortably equipped with Slovak subtitles).
“Life probably wouldn’t be pleasant if only my family was safe but there was desolation everywhere else.”
A GROWING number of fake medical prescriptions along with the total value of falsely prescribed medicines have prompted the Health Ministry into introducing protective elements into medical prescription forms, the Sme daily reported on November 12.
THE NOW-ruling Smer party’s deputy chief Pavol Paška has filed a criminal complaint against an unknown offender for a series of stories published by the Sme daily relating to cronyism in the health care sector.
SLOVAK Prime Minister Robert Fico has welcomed the official EU-Africa Summit which started in Malta on November 11, noting that African countries, as well as Turkey, also need to be engaged in addressing the migration crisis, the TASR newswire reported on November 12.
SLOVAKIA is working on a project involving the resettlement into Slovakia of 25 Christian families who speak the ancient Aramaic language, the language of Jesus Christ.
THE USA appreciates the efforts of Slovak citizens to look after memorials dedicated to American soldiers who died in combat in Slovakia, announced the US Embassy to Slovakia's Charge d’affaires Liam Wasley at the Memorial to American Airmen in Trenčianske Teplice in the Trenčín region on November 12.
RUSSIAN airline Pobeda launched the sale of tickets for its new route between Bratislava-Moscow on November 12, the TASR newsire reported on the same day.
AS THE government was refusing to take in the 802 asylum seekers allocated under the EU’s redistribution plan, the Kto pomôže (Who Will Help?) initiative recruited volunteers who said they were willing to personally house migrants.
