The post of Attorney General, which has been empty since February 2011, looks set to remain empty as President Ivan Gasparovic still refuses to appoint elected candidate Jozef Centes and now the voting procedure in May that preceded his election is being investigated. Centes was the candidate of the four coalition parties and was legally [...]
Don’t forget that clocks go back an hour overnight from Saturday to Sunday (officially at 0300 in the morning), meaning an extra hour sleep if you want it. Daylight saving time is exactly that, moving clocks forward in the spring and then back again before the winter to make the most of natural daylight and [...]
Acting Prime Minister Iveta Radicova confirmed the news today that the EU members had agreed on how to deal with Greece’s debt and the increased European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). Talks went on long into the night, but the outcome was that private banks and creditors holding Greek debt agreed to take a 50% cut [...]
The battle between doctors and the Ministry of Health continues as the doctors’ trade union organisation LOZ refuses to urge doctors to withdraw their mass resignations. Talks have not made much headway, and one crucial point, the transformation of hospitals into joint stock companies, could still go ahead under the interim government, which has the [...]
In the early hours of the morning around 4 am last night a Seat Alhambra was set alight in the Petrzalka borough of Bratislava, with the fire spreading to another four cars. The police and fire brigade got to the scene quickly, but too late to save the five cars from being burned, meaning around [...]
Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ Vice-President of the European Commission -Responsible for Interinstitutional Relations and Administration “Slovakia in the EU” gives seminar for Slovak journalists in Bratislava, 25 October. “Slovakia in the EU” Ladies and gentlemen, Maroš ŠEFČOVIČ, photo (c) Mathuzalen We are in the middle of the biggest challenge that the European Union has ever faced. And we have to act [...]
The Manchester United junior team, which is on a week-long training session in Poprad in the High Tatras, has paid its respects to the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey players who died in a plane crash last month, including Slovak hockey legend Pavol Demitra. The young players and team staff themselves requested the ceremony outside Poprad hockey [...]
Slovakia now has its caretaker government in place after President Ivan Gasparovic made it official yesterday by recalling PM Iveta Radicova and her cabinet and then re-appointing them to administer the country’s affairs until the March 2012 elections. The tactical move was made possible thanks to a swift plugging of a loophole in the Constitution, [...]
PM Radicova’s decision not to candidate with SDKU in the March 2012 elections can be easily explained says leader of opposition party Smer-SD, Robert Fico. Fico spoke shortly after Radicova had announced her plan not to candidate, saying she was running from her own failure, both personally and politically. Fico added that Iveta Radicova was [...]
Following the SDKU party meeting today, Prime Minister Iveta Radicova officially announced in sombre mood that she would not be going forward as a candidate of the party in the early elections in March 2012. Radicova noted how she had gone into the previous elections with the motto “Together we can do it!”, adding how [...]
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