As the reality of the situation in Libya started to sink in, governments throughout the world started evacuating their citizens in any way they could. In an effort to help Slovaks get out, The Daily in co-operation with its partner Epic-Air, a private Irish-American chartered flights agency based in Slovakia, contacted the Slovak government on [...]
The government should make a final decision regarding the potential sale of the six major heating companies in the country at the beginning of March. The government has said that it does not expect the privatisation of the heating companies, whether wholly or partially, to lead to a hike in the price of heat. The [...]
On his trip to Russia this week, transport minister Jan Figel has been talking with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with the main focus being on transport links and co-operation between the two countries. Putin and Figel discussed a number of issues concerning bilateral trade and economic co-operation, but special emphasis was on the broad-gauge [...]
Slovakia has declared its unwillingness to support the plan to harmonise corporate income taxes in the European Union, with finance minister Ivan Miklos saying Slovakia had a big problem with the idea. Miklos pointed out, however, that if the system were to mirror the system currently in place in Slovakia, then that would be acceptable [...]
Slovak cyclist Peter Sagan (21) won the opening stage of the Tour of Sardinia. He squeezed ahead of 2008 World Champion Alessandro Ballan and his Liquigas-Cannondale team-mate, Daniel Oss. In stage two yesterday he came fourth, putting him in second position overall behind Italian Damiano Cunego, who has a seven second lead on Sagan. Sagan [...]
A policeman in Bratislava lost his service sub-machine gun this week. According to the internet portal Cas.sk, he put the weapon on top of his car and then drove away with his colleague. The lost service type 58 sub-machine gun was found on Monday evening by a bus driver at a bus stop on Lamacska [...]
The passenger figures at Bratislava Airport tend to fluctuate because of the overall small volume, and most recently passenger numbers have been falling, with 13.7% fewer passengers year-on-year in January passing through the airport. With a total of 78,800 passengers in January 2011, this is something like 12,000 less than last year. The drop was [...]
Police chief Jaroslav Spisiak has paid out his plans for the police force for this year, and has bravely said that if he doesn’t meet the targets, he will step down from the post. One thing that he probably has least direct control over concerns the number of road accidents in the country, which he [...]
Last week The Daily reported about the request of finance minister Ivan Miklos for the contributions of Member States to the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to be made more proportionate to their economies instead of their populations. At a press conference today, Miklos says he will demand that the change be put into effect. The [...]
The government is desperately trying to constrain rising food prices, and will employ any means possible on a local level to achieve this, including handing out free flour and pasta to the poor. A meeting this week attended by Prime Minister Iveta Radicova, economy minister Juraj Miskov and agriculture minister Zsolt Simon, produced several ideas [...]
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