Not all Slovan Bratislava fans will be celebrating their team’s qualifying 1-1 draw with AS Roma as much as they would like, after being banned from attending all sporting events in Italy because of the swastika. Some of the ‘Belasi’ fans were banned from between 3 and 5 years after being caught with pyrotechnics and [...]
The new Hungarian ambassador to Slovakia, Csaba Balogh, handed his credential over to foreign affairs minister Mikulas Dzurinda yesterday. At the brief meeting, Dzurinda discussed Slovak-Hungarian topical issues and the development of relations between the two countries, which have been strained over the past year thanks mainly to steps taken by Viktor Orban’s government. [...]
One of the biggest football nations in the world, Italy, has been kicked in the ego once again by Slovakia and specifically by Vladimir Weiss, coach of both the national team and Slovan Bratislava. After a 1-0 victory against AS Roma at home, Slovan went to Rome for the second leg of the UEFA [...]
When asked about the progress being made in the murder case of renowned lawyer Ernest Valko, police commissioner Jaroslav Spisiak was not giving anything away, saying only that they have made progress in the case. Valko was shot through the heart in cold blood in his home near Bratislava on 8 November 2010, with [...]
The Slovak Ministry of Defence has been crying poverty over the past few months and it now plans to hand out some 1,400 redundancies to people employed in the sector, 500 of which are soldiers. Defence minister Lubomir Galko announced the first wave of slimming down the workforce at a press conference yesterday, meaning 900 [...]
Slovak gas utility SPP has managed to fight off another attempt to cash in on the legendary Ducky Bills, blank promissory notes issued by former head of the company and economy minister, Jan Ducky, who was later murdered in 1999. The bills have been popping up for years with nobody totally sure of the exact [...]
At a joint press conference of the Slovak Chamber of Food and Agriculture and the Slovak Trade and Tourism Association today, both organisations underlined the negative impacts that they believe a revision to the Food Act will have on the industry. They believe it will affect all levels of the food chain in a negative [...]
Local head of the Smer-SD party and mayor of Nova Dubnica, Peter Marusinec, has been arrested on charges of fraud and extorting around EUR 160,000 from the local labour office. The charges concern a case where a group of five defrauded subsidies from the labour office for training that never took place. The other accused [...]
The government has decided to revise the proposed MP salaries from January, after information was leaked that they would possibly be getting over EUR 400 more a month each as part of a 10% hike. Coalition leaders have agreed to look into the issue of salaries of constitutional officials again in September. The proposed hike [...]
The government coalition still has its work cut out for it when it comes to the Citizenship Act, which has been at the centre of various conflicts for over a year. The current law was put in place by the former government in reaction to legislation in Hungary that offered citizenship to all ethnic [...]
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