A European police operation called Icarus carried out in 22 countries, including Slovakia, has cracked down on a child porn distribution ring, Europol announced today. Head of Europol Rob Wainwright informed that 112 arrests had already been made from a total of 269 suspects, with charges of “the most extreme form” of online child and [...]
Doctors remain defiant despite having had all their demands dealt with this weak, with them keeping up their strike alert until the respective legislation takes effect, while the trade union LOZ attempts also to dislodge health minister Ivan Uhliarik from his post. The doctors’ trade union said it would only call off the strike alert [...]
Things haven’t being going too well recently for head coach of the Slovak national football team after Slovakia were knocked out of the 2012 European Championships thanks mostly to defeats to Armenia, so there is now talk of ousting him from his position. Weiss’ contract as national team coach doesn’t run out until the end [...]
The Ministry of Agriculture had its server crippled for a few hours today after being bombarded with thousands of e-mails from animal rights activists, reports Pravda.sk. The protest e-mails were about the ban on battery chicken farming that is set to come into force throughout the European Union from 1 January 2012. The timing of [...]
At a press conference today, police commissioner Jaroslav Spisiak, announced a successful Slovak-Czech police operation on an organised group that was planning to smuggle nuclear materials. The group of six Slovaks and one Czech, led by a 71-yr old, was planning to smuggle a radioactive substance worth around half a million euros to either Slovakia [...]
Yesterday parliament approved legislative changes that put a final end to the dispute with hospital doctors, with the halting of the transformation of hospitals and a two-phase hike in wages for 2012. The legislative changes pleased head of the doctors union LOZ, Marian Kollar, who said they had finally achieved what they wanted, albeit partially. [...]
National regulatory authority URSO finally endorsed the prices of energies for next year, which means customers will be more out of pocket. Here TheDaily.sk provides you with an article on the subject from daily Pravda published today (Page: 1/10, Author: Michal Holeš) Gas to go up by six percent Households will have to get ready [...]
The government agreed today to put up part of the financing to build a national football stadium, which is, embarrassingly, something Slovakia has been lacking for the past several years. Education minister Eugen Jurzyca announced the news, but without specifying how much the state was willing to contribute. According to Hospodarske Noviny, Jurzyca said the subsidy [...]
Emiliana Torrini will be the first artist confirmed at the next Pohoda Festival 2012. The Icelandic singer, already in 2009 in one of her last interviews stressed quite specifically that he wanted to return to Trenčin to perform again. “Emiliana Torrini has produced beautiful recordings and her concerts are a feast of music with unique [...]
Head of the nationalist party SNS, Jan Slota, is claiming that the Ministry of Environment is selling Slovakia’s emission quotas on the cheap, saying they could be sold for three times as much, TASR newswire reports. The ministry is selling the emissions at a mere EUR 2/ton, but Slota claims that it could get EUR [...]
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