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 [...]
As is tradition, the second Sunday in May is Mother’s Day, and as part of the celebrations around 41 towns and cities in Slovakia will host the annual event A Mile for Mum, which will take place tomorrow Saturday 12th May. The main idea behind the event, which sees hundreds of mums, children, fathers and [...]
Speaking on Slovak Radio programme Radiozurnal, interior minister Robert Kalinak informed how one of the first tasks that newly appointed police commissioner Tibor Gašpar should deal with is to merge the Anti-Corruption Office and the Anti Organised Crime Office. Kalinak could not say exactly how this would be done, but the idea also has the [...]
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 [...]
A new section of cycling path along the Danube was opened in Bratislava last week, finishing off one of the longest international cycling routes in Europe, the EuroVelo6. The new section stretches between the Novy Most and Stary Most bridges on the Petrzalka side of the river, a real hot spot in the summer and [...]
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 Bratislava May festival Majales gets underway today in Bratislava with a whole host of concerts and events going on all weekend (4-6 May). The Bratislavský Majáles was revived in 2008, and is now in its fourth year. It has become established as one of the city’s main public festivals, with top Slovak music acts playing live [...]
President Ivan Gasparovic’s son is hardly setting a good example as he built a big house near the government hotel Borik in Bratislava illegally without a corresponding building permit. News of the illegal building was published today by daily Novy Cas, which states that the villa of the President’s son and his wife is almost [...]
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