The talks between Hungarian PM Viktor Orban and Slovak PM Iveta Radicova at the end of January dealt also with the possibility of connecting up the electricity grids of both countries, and now the practical aspects are starting to take shape. Today the electricity transmission operators, involved companies and national regulators of all three [...]
The case of Hedviga Malinova (now Zakova) has been ongoing since August 2006 when she claimed she had been beaten in Nitra by two skinheads merely for speaking Hungarian on her phone. In the latest development, she has decided to sue former interior minister Robert Kalinak for libel as he recently referred to her as [...]
Health minister Ivan Uhliarik has put forward a proposal to extend the smoking ban to places where the public gather, such as concerts and shopping centre cafes. Uhliarik is calling for the Act on Protection of Non-Smokers to be amended to include also public spaces in bars and restaurants. Basically, anywhere that non-smokers frequent alongside [...]
The various ‘deals’ concluded by former labour minister from Smer-SD Viera Tomanova seem without end as yet another questionable contract has popped up. Daily Hospodarske Noviny published a report today in which it points to a contract worth EUR 35,000 that Tomanova endorsed for preparing an economic analysis of companies that no longer even existed. [...]
Invited Czech politicians attended a session of the Parliamentary Committee for Media and Culture in Slovakia yesterday, at which they showed greatest interest in how the public radio and TV broadcasters were merged into the new broadcasting corporation RTVS. A similar merger of public radio and TV broadcasting organisations has been under debate for some [...]
Yesterday Slovak defence minister Lubomir Galko travelled to Bosnia and Herzegovina to meet representatives of the EUFOR mission in Sarejovo, for which Slovakia is now responsible. Galko’s journey was not without complications, though, as a bird smacked into his AN-26 military aircraft as it came down to land at Sarajevo Airport. The plane was damaged [...]
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