Slovakia News

Bratislava, Slovakia's capital, has risen to 30th place in a chart of the most expensive cities in the world, with costs rising above other regional capitals like Berlin or Prague.

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday hailed the existing cooperation with China and expressed optimism that the cordial ties will be further enhanced.

Relations between Slovakia and its richer, larger neighbor remain ambivalent 16 years after their velvet divorce in 1993 By Dan Bilefsky NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, BRATISLAVA Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009, Page 9 ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE When the Czech Republic unveiled an avowedly satirical artwork to mark the beginning of its EU presidency last ...

I tear the wrapper off a 3-Euro bottle of Cotes du Rhone with my teeth and push the cork inside with my guitar capo.

A Turkish music band took stage in a traditional music festival in Slovakia on Saturday.

Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai is concerned about possible violation of minorities' rights in Slovakia due to the new law on Slovak language, he told Slovak Deputy PM Dusan Caplovic, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported today.

UNESCO has recognised a 5,000-year-old city in Peru and an historic town centre in Slovakia as worthy additions to its World Heritage List.

Slovakia has recorded four new confirmed cases of A/H1N1 novel flu, taking the overall number to 13, the country's chief public health officer, Ivan RovnA1 2, said on Tuesday, June 30 to the TASR newswire.

THE ADOPTION of the euro at the beginning of this year has helped to protect Slovakia from the most severe impacts of the global financial crisis, said EU Foreign and Security Policy Chief Javier Solana, who visited Slovakia on June 30 to meet Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak and Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Slovak gas distributor Slovensky plynarensky priemysel has signed a gas-supply contract with E.ON Ruhrgas, said SPP chairman Bernd Wagner at a press conference in Bratislava on June 29, the TASR newswire reported.

The Slovak Economy Ministry confirmed on June 22 that Slovakia may well face another natural gas crisis if Russia cuts all Europe-bound gas supplies via what it sees as its undisciplined customer Ukraine, the SITA newswire reported.

The recent heavy rains have caused river levels to rise, especially in the Danube and Morava Rivers.

Reading Eagle: Lauren A. Little The Rev. Drahus Oslik in the sanctuary of Trinity Lutheran Church in Robesonia.

Hard Rock International and two Austrian companies are to build a huge five-billion-euro casino complex in Hungary, the group's parent company said Friday.

The number of graduates without work is rising in Slovakia as the crisis reduces the number of job vacancies, it was announced on Tuesday, June 23.

At least eight people died in overnight flooding in the eastern Czech Republic, police said on Thursday, and rising river levels prompted flood warnings across central Europe following heavy rains this week.

A new case of H1N1 flu has been confirmed in Slovakia, the tvnoviny.sk portal has said, adding that a 24-year-old woman who has contracted the new strain of flu has been hospitalised in Trnava.

Former Justice Minister Stefan Harabin has become the new President of the Slovak Supreme Court.

A fourth case of A/H1N1 novel flu infection has been confirmed in Slovakia, TASR was told by Health Ministry spokesperson Zuzana Cizmarikova on June 22.

Slovakia's low-cost air carrier, SkyEurope Airlines, has filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors as the company stated in a Monday morning, June 22, press release that the Bratislava I District Court has granted its petition, the SITA newswire reported.