News from Slovakia

(Fri 03 Mar 06) In a friendly soccer match played in Paris last evening the Slovak team defeated the French 2 – 1. This is the first time that...

(Fri 03 Mar 06) The Slovak crown broke through the 37 barrier on Wednesday afternoon, hitting its new best-ever value of 36.94 SKK/EUR. Against its reference currency the euro,...

(Thu 02 Mar 06) The Slovak Supreme Court on Wednesday outlawed the ultra-nationalist Slovenska Pospolitost - Slovak Togetherness - party due to its political activities. The Court decided these...

(Thu 02 Mar 06) Premier Mikulas Dzurinda said on Tuesday that the next government will continue to sell land and property needed to raise funds in order to complete...

(Tue 28 Feb 06) A no-confidence vote in Culture Minister Ludovit Toth held at a special session on Friday, initiated by the opposition Movement for a Democratic Slovakia was...

(Tue 28 Feb 06) Altogether 226 samples of dead birds were delivered to the State Veterinary Institute on Friday to be examined for potential infection with the H5N1 virus....

(Fri 24 Feb 06) The presence of bird flu in Slovakia was confirmed by the laboratory tests on samples from two dead birds infected by the dangerous H5N1 virus,...

(Fri 24 Feb 06) Police still haven't found those who killed of 21-year-old student Daniel Tupy from Zilina. He was brutally murdered on November 4, allegedly by neo-Nazis. However,...

(Thu 16 Feb 06) Slovakia could be the latest country to be hit by the deadly bird flu virus. Employees of the Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Office in...

(Thu 16 Feb 06) Slovak Foreign Minister Eduard Kukan thinks that in the case of Iranian nuclear programme it is necessary to use all diplomatic means. Only later should...