Slovakia News

Around 100 supporters of ultra-right organisation Slovenska Pospolitost gathered in the town of Jelsava in Banska Bystrica region on Saturday, February 6, with around 200 locals joining them later in what Pospolitost claims was a protest against the government's inability to secure a decent life for decent people in Slovakia, the TASR wrote.

President Nguyen Minh Triet yesterday sent messages of greetings to the presidents of Slovakia, Ivan Gasparovic; the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus; and Hungary, Solyom Laszlo, on the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with Viet Nam.

The Snapshots report gives an instant overview of the Slovakian beer market and covers low alcohol, strong alcohol and non alcohol beers.

Slovakia's Foreign Affairs Minister, Miroslav Lajcak, met with Zhang Zhijun, the Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China during his visit to Bratislava on February 4, the TASR newswire reported.

The Harimau Muda squad, the back-up squad to the national team, will be leaving for Bratislava, Slovakia on Feb 19, one week before the second tier of Slovakian National League kicks off.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's chances of winning a June 12 general election rose on Monday when his main rival, center-right ex-premier Mikulas Dzurinda, pulled out over accusations of money laundering.

Hungarian Spectrum writes about nationalism, assimilation, open borders, Hungary's minorities and the Hungarian diaspora in the neighboring countries.

Steve Forbes once called Slovakia "the next Ireland, Switzerland or Hong Kong" and the World Bank decorated the country with the badge of the world's most successful reformer: But these happened before 2006.

US President Barack Obama announced on January 20 that he was nominating Theodor Sedgwick to become the country's new Ambassador to Slovakia, the TASR newswire was informed by the press attache of the US Embassy in Slovakia, Chase Beamer.

Three detainees from the US facility in Guantanamo Bay Cuba arrived in Slovakia early Monday morning, January 25, the spokesman for the Police Corps Presidium, Martin Korch, told the TASR newswire later in the day.

THREE prisoners from the controversial US detention centre at GuantA namo Bay will be resettled in Slovakia this year following an agreement reached between the Slovak and US governments.

Viet Nam and Slovakia have agreed that trade and investment co-operation between the two countries was still modest compared with their full potential and the ties should be strengthened in the coming time.

Slovaks regard ethnic tensions as more powerful than other kinds of social conflict in Slovakia, according to the International Social Survey Programme 2009-2010 carried out by the sociology department of the Slovak Academy of Sciences .

Slovakia's General Prosecutor's Office will have to provide access to its decision that halted criminal prosecution in the case of alleged false donors to the centre-right Slovak Democratic and Christian Union party to the election watchdog Fair-Play Alliance, the SITA newswire reported.

Transportation Minister Lubomir Vazny is to sign a contract involving the third package of a public private partnership project for motorway construction and the deal will be closed by February 16, the Slovak government decided on January 21, the TASR newswire wrote.

A Slovakian father-of-two has been sentenced to seven years in prison for killing his Polish flatmate after an argument about a light being left on.

Three detainees held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been sent to Slovakia, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday, the latest transfers as the Obama administration tries to close the facility.

Air Slovakia has told The Slovak Spectator that technical problems were the only reason that one of its aeroplanes was diverted to Bratislava on Sunday, January 17.

Barnsley striker Onome Sodje is poised to complete a permanant move to Slovakian side FC Senica after failing to make an impact at the club.

BRATISLAVA, Jan 22, 2010 - Fears are growing for media freedom in Slovakia amid warnings that the country's public television station has become a propaganda tool for the government ahead of elections this year.