President Zuzana Caputova sent a telegram of condolences to her German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier over Wednesday's shooting in the town of Hanau. "I believe that every attack rooted in xenopho ...
Late Thursday, early Friday, international press agencies informed about a possible failure in coming to an agreement at the special European summit on the EU's long term budget currently being held in ...
Parliament rescheduled the vote on discussing the introduction of the 13th pension payment, doubled family allowances and the scrapping of motorway vignettes in a fast-tracked procedure to Tuesday, Feb ...
Commemorative events have been taking place in 60 cities in Slovakia and abroad on the occasion of the 2 years since the murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova. ...
Excellent bilateral ties, efficient co-operation within the EU and other international organisations as well as conflict prevention were some of the issues discussed between Foreign Minister Miroslav L ...
Slovak toxicologist Helena Kandarova has been shortlisted for the Lush Prize 2020, a global award supporting animal free testing in cosmetics. The senior scientist at the Centre of experimental medicin ...
The chairman of the 'For People' party and ex-president Andrej Kiska delivered a testimony at the National Crime Agency (NAKA) on Friday on leaked videos that are supposed to implicate him in shady lan ...
The registered unemployment rate in Slovakia stood at 4.98 percent in January, having dropped by 0.28 percentage points year-on-year, and going up by 0.06 p.p. in monthly terms. This is the latest data ...
The parliamentary session, the opening of which was on hold for two days and nights, was unusually opened on Thursday morning by Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD). However, the independent MPs around Miroslav Beblavý (Progressive Slovakia/Together), who had been blocking the speaker's desk until then, did not allow Pellegrini to speak at the main desk. He had to use one of the two side desks that had been brought into the assembly hall on Thursday morning. Only after Pellegrini made his statements did they stop blocking the parliamentary proceedings and leave the main desk. We also discuss the unusual opening of the parliamentary session in our Topical Issue.
Presidents and prime ministers of the EU countries are meeting in Brussels to launch an extraordinary summit on the union's future multi-annual budget. European Council President Charles Michel hopes t ...
