An article in today’s issue of Pravda daily questions the money behind the recently established new political party 99%, specifically the support from businessman Ivan Weiss. Here TheDaily.sk provides you with a translation of the article. Money in support of 99% invokes suspicions Is it possible to do “clean” politics with suspicious money? The civil [...]
An article published today in daily Pravda looks at why Slovakia has still not managed to transpose the EU’s Third Energy Package into Slovak legislation and also the consequences of the delay. Here TheDaily provides you with a translation of the article. Miskov Blames MPs for Expensive Energies The Ministry of Economy under the leadership [...]
Matt Price is back! Arguably the most extroverted and animated comedian we have ever brought to Bratislava returns for another all-action show at Goblins. Opening the show will be Scotland’s multi-talented Maureen Younger. Tickets are just €9 in advance, €10 on the door or FREE for holders of Baby Blue Banana Annual Season Card. To buy [...]
25 Jan 2012 | Posted in
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President Ivan Gasparovic decided today to rid head of the SIS secret service head Karol Mitrik of his oath of secrecy so that he can divulge information about the Gorilla reports into corruption allegations, TASR reports. It took Gasparovic two weeks to decide what to do, or be advised about what to do, as the [...]
The Slovak secret service SIS, which carried out the controversial Gorilla surveillance operation into alleged corrupt ties between politicians and the business sphere, has now started to be more accommodating with the investigation into the case. Among other things, head of SIS Karol Mitrik has replied at last to the questions put to him by [...]
Fascist skinhead runs hate network from his suburban Irish hideaway By the SundayWorld IN HIDING: We found Nazi hate monger Igor M at his workplace in Dublin THIS IS the secret neo-Nazi running an international network of hate from Ireland. Skinhead Igor M (35) is a member of an Eastern European hate group whose activities [...]
The PSA Peugeot-Citroen Slovakia plant in Trnava is upping its workforce to deal with the introduction of a 3-shift operation and so plans to take on an additional 900 workers. The third shift is being added to deal with the production of a new model and has been in the planning for the past six [...]
24 Jan 2012 | Posted in
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The Most-Hid party has expressed shock at the news that its candidate Andrej Hrnciar received an envelope containing live ammunition, the party’s press secretary informed The Daily today. Hrnciar, who is mayor of the town of Martin in Central Slovakia, found the unusual correspondence among his official mail. The party is astonished at the lengths [...]
A group calling themselves Generacia ’89 (the 1989 Generation) chose an unusual but effective way to demonstrate against the political culture in Slovakia, by painting over the pre-election billboards of political parties. During the night on Sunday, the group attacked billboards of all parliamentary parties (Smer, SDKÚ, KDH, SNS, Most-Híd and SaS) with the message that [...]
The people who are mentioned in the alleged leaked secret service reports codenamed Gorilla may be trembling in their shoes if there is any substance to the claims made in the reports, and as more and more information comes to light, the probability that the corruption allegations contained therein are substantiated is increasing by the [...]
23 Jan 2012 | Posted in
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