The new foreign affairs minister Miroslav Lajcak has accused his predecessor Mikulas Dzurinda of concluding some suspicious contracts before leaving office and so has decided to cancel them as much as possible. Both the current and former foreign ministers took part in the political discussion programme Na Telo on TV Markiza yesterday, which was the [...]
Greenpeace Slovensko has failed with its petition against the Nuclear Regulatory Authority (UJD) regarding a building permit issued in 2008 for the completion of units 3 and 4 at Mochovce nuclear power plant. The Bratislava Regional Court issued the ruling today in favour of the nuclear authority, as the changes to the building permit allegedly [...]
In an attempt to ease up the overpopulated prisons in the country and speed of execution of pending sentences, the Ministry of Justice has announced that it is preparing a system of home arrest for certain prisoners. Head of Penal law at the Ministry, Lucia Kurilovská, told daily Hospodarke Noviny that concrete steps were being [...]
The government has decided on the new police commissioner, with the post going to General Tibor Gašpar, who has been heading the Anti-Corruption Office to date. The news was announced today by interior minister Robert Kaliňák, putting an end to the nomination of Stanislav Jankovič to the post, as his name has been associated with [...]
Many people in Slovakia feel that there are just too many billboards bordering the roads, something that even a visiting comedian from the UK noted and built her act, amazed also at the size of some of them. Now deputy speaker of parliament Renáta Zmajkovičová has called for the introduction of a law limiting the [...]
A 27-year old Spanish man has been arrested for the murder of a 22-yr old woman from Martin, Slovakia, and a 28-yr old Czech man, who were both slaughtered in a flat in Zilina at the end of March 2012. The accused is said to have choked the woman and stabbed the man to death, [...]
Last week Jan Valko was appointed new head of the Slovak Information Service (SIS), with his appointment by the government endorsed by President Ivan Gasparovic. Valko says his main priority will be to make the secret service more transparent, but many question whether someone so young and with so little experience in this field will [...]
The issue of how standard selection proceedings should be used to fill key posts in state administration and in state-owned companies has often been waved around like a pre-election carrot or as empty populist rhetoric, and even though the law obliges ministries to select candidates in this way, the system is not being used. Daily [...]
European Commissioner for Regional policy Johannes Hahn has agreed to the reallocation of funds within EU operational programmes for Slovakia to accommodate the plan proposed by the new government of PM Robert Fico. Following his meeting with Slovak minister of transport and EU funds Jan Pociatek, Hahn said the European Commission would allocate funds to [...]
Last week PM Robert Fico met briefly in Warsaw with his Hungarian counterpart PM Viktor Orban, with the meeting catching the attention of the media as the two statesmen are not exactly known for seeing eye to eye, especially in respect of the dual citizenship dispute that has been going on since Orban took power [...]
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