THE KRÁSNA Hôrka Castle in south-eastern Slovakia is being reconstructed and repaired after a devastating fire in March 2012. Currently, the roof’s reconstruction has finished, while approval is pending.
Smaller Slovak rivers offer potential but environment must be considered.
THE STATE should immediately scrap a multi-million Euro tender for health insurance e-cards, which appear to be superfluous given that the state has already introduced electronic ID cards (eID), the Fair-play Alliance and a platform called slovensko.digital stated at a joint press conference on December 3.
THE CABINET has allocated €30 million outside of the state budget for the modernisation of hospitals, with the money earmarked for the improvement of 27 health facilities.
SLOVAKIA has the lowest employment rate among people with primary education and those who left vocational schools without graduating, head of the Slovak Academy of Sciences’ (SAV) prognostic team Martina Lubyová stated at an SAV economic conference on December 3.
THE STATE may cancel the InterCity (IC) trains of the state-owned rail carrier Železničná Spoločnosť Slovensko (ZSSK) in response to claims that RegioJet will stop running trains on the Bratislava-Košice line.
THE VISEGRAD Four (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) wants to initiate within the EU the creation of a broader Friends of Schengen group, according to a decision passed at the V4 prime ministers summit in Prague on December 3.
