National News from Slovakia

(Thu 17 Nov 05) At its session on Wednesday the cabinet approved a draft bill to compensate individuals who are victims of violent crime. If the draft bill finds...

(Tue 15 Nov 05) Former Economy Minister Pavol Rusko has shot himself in the leg after returning from a hunting trip in the early hours of Monday. Rusko is...

(Mon 14 Nov 05) Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda proposed to Smer's head Robert Fico to finish the politics of sharp confrontation and to open public discussion about topics connected...

(Mon 14 Nov 05) Relatives, class-mates, teachers as well as strangers came to New Cemetery in Zilina, north Slovakia, to bid a last farewell to 21-year-old Daniel Tupy. This...

(Fri 11 Nov 05) Javier Solana, the EU high representative for common foreign and security policy, highly praised Slovakia's impressive progress. The EU senior official met with Slovak Foreign...

(Fri 11 Nov 05) At a time of strong anti-fascist feeling, the Archbishop of Bratislava and Trnava Jan Sokol gave his support to the ultra-nationalist party Slovak Togetherness. Sokol,...

(Fri 11 Nov 05) Pavol Rusko, chairman of the formerly coruling Alliance of New Citizen that recently joined the opposition camp, has stirred up the political scene again. He...

(Thu 03 Nov 05) The Slovak Information Service (SIS) has no information indicating that the US had secret jails in Slovakia, according to SIS spokesman Vladimir Simko. A Czech...

(Thu 03 Nov 05) The police were charged to liquidate the far right extremist party Slovenska Pospolitost and got three weeks to fulfill the task, said Jan Kopunek, a...

(Tue 01 Nov 05) Police trade union boss and former director of the department of scientific and technical development of the Police Corps, Miroslav Litva, became a senior expert...