News from Slovakia

(Fri 02 Dec 05) A Conference of Regional Partnership is being held in Bratislava today. Speakers of the parliaments of 6 countries cooperating in the Regional Partnership with another...

(Fri 02 Dec 05) Chairman of the socialist bloc in the European Parliament Martin Schulz at the prompting of Slovak Smer party MEPs Monika Benova, Milos Koterec and Vladimir...

(Wed 30 Nov 05) The creators of the Minerva project (raising the economic competitiveness of Slovakia) claim that more than half of Slovaks should have university education in the...

(Wed 30 Nov 05) The parliamentary parties to a man declared that Saturday's Higher Territorial Unit regional elections were a good result for them. They drew attention to various...

(Wed 30 Nov 05) On Monday non-playing captain of the Slovak Davis Cup tennis team Miroslav Mecir expressed his satisfaction with the preparation of Slovakia's team for the Davis...

(Wed 30 Nov 05) Slovak victims of the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact military forces will receive compensation through a law which President Ivan Gasparovic signed on...

(Wed 30 Nov 05) People who will be either searched for by Mountain Rescue Service or whose life will have to be saved by mountain rescuers, will have to...

(Tue 29 Nov 05) Leader of the governing coalition Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda is satisfied with the future composition of regional parliaments, but less content with low attendance in...

(Tue 29 Nov 05) Slovakia's entry of the Exchange Rate Mechanism 2 (ERM-2) on Friday, where countries must keep their currencies for at least two years before adopting the...

(Tue 29 Nov 05) In Saturday's Higher Territorial Unit regional elections, none of the candidates in any of Slovakia's eight regions received enough votes to become governor. This is...