DEPARTING head of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) Jaromír Pastorek will become the new government’s proxy for science, according to a decision passed by the government at its January 14 session.
THE NÁMESTOVO District Court exonerated Juraj Bernaťák, mayor of Trstená (Žilina Region), of charges relating to blackmail and the abuse of a public official’s powers back in 2011 as the director of the Cadastre Directorate in Tvrdošín.
The Czech bus operator RegioJet can finally start the long-distance bus line between Banská Bystrica and Bratislava. Banská Bystrica region(BBSK) granted it a license January 13.
To commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the birth of Slovakia as independent state, President Andrej Kiska on January 13 awarded state honours to 10 prominent figures from art, science, history and sociology.
The Slovak Statistics Office (ŠÚ) published its findings concerning the development in salaries of Slovaks on January 13, reporting that average nominal monthly salary in November 2014 recorded year-on-year increases in all monitored categories except for selected market services.
MPs from the ruling Smer party in the parliamentary constitutional committee rejected a veto imposed by President Andrej Kiska on the amendment to the Labour Code that is supposed to restrict the so-called agency employment in Slovakia.
The push for new routes and more infrastructure to bolster security of supply has led to "significant" investment, resulting in historic pipeline links being used less, Doug Wood, the chairman of the gas committee for the European Federation of Energy Traders in Amsterdam, said in an in
Some European politicians are no longer satisfied with the results of World War II. "For me and my family, the results of the Second World War were highly negative," said the President of Latvia Andris Berzins.
Volkswagen Group will invest up to 500 million euros to modernize and expand its plant in Bratislava, Slovakia, a report said. The work should start in April and last until the end of 2016, Slovak newspaper Hospodarske Noviny reported on Tuesday.
SLOVAKIA remained the only applicant to hold the 83th IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship which will take place in 2019, after its only rival, Switzerland, withdrew its candidacy and applied for 2020.
