Category archives for: Current Affairs

Parliament Fails to End Meciar’s Indestructible Amnesties

Vladimir Meciar (c) Péter Kamocsai

As if a spit in the face for the Gorilla protesters who are demanding transparency, today parliament failed once again to revoke the amnesties given by self-instated president at the time, Vladimir Meciar, surrounding the kidnapping of former President Michal Kovac’s son. This is the sixth time a motion to annul the dubious amnesties has [...]

Over 17,500 Confirmed for Gorilla Protest in Bratislava Today

Gorillas on the loose (c) The Daily.sk

The anti-Gorilla protests are set to continue today with public protests organised in all the major cities in the country, including a show of support from Slovaks abroad in Prague and London. There are now over 17,500 people confirmed on social network Facebook as attending the biggest protest in Bratislava as part of the Gorilla II [...]

Is Bratislava Set to Become a Top Tech Start-up City?

Bratislava enjoys flourishing IT sector

Silicon Valley is today not necessarily the best place to start a business. It is really hard to recruit and retain good engineers because you are competing with companies such as Google or Facebook. A lot of globally successful start-ups are today born in Europe. London and Berlin are the European cities attracting tech people [...]

Danube Wings Starts Selling Flights to Croatia

photo: Danube Wings

Private airline Danube Wings is starting to sell tickets for regular flights from Bratislava to Split and Zadar and from Kosice to Rijeka in Croatia in preparation for the summer season. The airline operates the flights every year and this year will start flying holidaymakers from Bratislava to their Croatian destinations from 16 June, with [...]

TV Claims Shady Deal From Gorilla Took Place

Agreed! (c) Lucas

Some of the allegations arising out of the Gorilla corruption affair could be gaining weight as TV Markiza claimed at the end of last week how a company owned by former head of privatisation agency FNM Anna Bubenikova’s husband, Roman Bubenik, was involved in a transaction that was mentioned in the Gorilla reports. According to [...]

Anonymous Attacks Parliament Website

Slovak parliament (c) The Daily

Renowned hacker group Anonymous has launched an attack on Slovak establishments once again, this time targeting parliament and taking out the website of the National Council of the Slovak Republic yesterday evening. The motive for the latest attack, one of many in the past few days, is that the National Council was pondering holding the [...]

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