The staff and contributors of The Daily would like to wish all our readers an exceptionally merry Christmas and all the best of personal and professional success for 2012. We are slimming down our news coverage for the festive season from today until Tuesday 3 January 2012, but will be publishing some articles and look [...]
The official farewell to the last Czechoslovak president and first democratically elected Czech president Vaclav Havel took place today as his coffin was carried through the streets of Prague to Prague Castle, while thousands of onlookers wept. The Daily reporter Katerina Krisicova from Prague gives us her thoughts on the man. In memory of Vaclav Havel [...]
The fingers are starting to be pointed over the excessively overpriced reconstruction of the Ondrej Nepela Ice-Hockey Stadium in Bratislava, with the Smer-SD party accusing the Christian democrats of KDH as being responsible. An audit by the Supreme Audit Office (NKU) revealed this week that the final bill for the stadium was almost double what [...]
Nationalist party SNS has contested the parliamentary election slate of Hungarian coalition party SMK as its chairman Jozsef Berenyi has probably been stripped of his Slovak citizenship. The SNS waited for the official registration of the SMK slate before filing a petition with the Central Election Committee (UVK) that Berenyi probably no longer holds Slovak [...]
The Central Election Committee has now registered all parties for the March 2012 elections and assigned them their respective election party numbers. A total of 26 parties will battle for votes in the early election, brought on by the collapse of PM Iveta Radicova’s government in October after disagreement within the coalition over the EFSF vote. There [...]
The government has approved a plan to make it a criminal offence punishable by a prison sentence if a doctor refuses to work during a declared crisis, like the recent state of emergency this month that was brought on by mass protest resignations of doctors. The legislative draft from the Ministry of Health, given the [...]
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