Another case of local authorities taking a firm hand to families that don’t pay rent and allegedly incite trouble saw the eviction of five Roma families yesterday in the town of Cierna nad Tisou. They reportedly reached an agreement with the local authorities, but the evictions came just two days after some of those being [...]
At a press conference this morning, director of Bratislava Airport Maros Jancula presented journalists with the airport’s figures for the first half of 2011. Jancula pointed to an overall drop in the number of passengers by 5%, while explaining that at least occupancy figures had gone up by 9% on international flights. The volume of cargo [...]
Some might think that hand-greasing has been going on as the former owner of non-banking financial companies BMG Invest and Horizont Slovakia, Vladimír Fruni, has been conditionally released from prison on parole and had two and a half years cut off his sentence. Fruni’s companies gave naive investors the promise of huge returns on [...]
The Tokaj Wine Association has called on the government to finalise talks with Hungary so it can define the Tokaj region. A petition with 1,200 signatures was presented to the government this week by association head Pavol Eftimov, requesting that the tokaj region be defined to include seven towns and villages in the south-east of [...]
A special concert called Concert for Norway has been organised for this Sunday (31 July) in the Main Square of Bratislava in memory of the 76 people who lost their lives in the massacre in Norway this week. The concert was thought up by the freshly established civil initiative called Rose for Norway together [...]
Prime Minister Iveta Radicova expressed her condolences today over the death of Bishop Rudolf Balaz, who died yesterday (27 July) from embolism aged 70. In her statement the Prime Minister praised the greatness of the man and his strong moral stance during the communist era. During communism Balaz worked illegally as a priest, and was [...]
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