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Summer in Slovakia - part 1

We bring you a list of tips to do in Slovakia during these summer days.

Slovakia must compensate forced sterilisation victims

The Slovak Government must set up a mechanism for providing rapid and effective access to compensation for women who fell victim to forced sterilisation, Council of Europe

Slovakia not usually first choice for migrants

Slovakia is not usually the country of first choice for labour migrants, according to a survey carried out by the International Organisation for Migration's (IOM) among non-EU citizens

NGOs against LNG terminal on Danube: Gas fuels climate crisis!

Future of Košice region being shaped

Although the town of Košice, located in the eastern part of the country, is the second largest town in Slovakia, in terms of GDP the Košice region has been long considered one of the poorest Slovak reg ...

Unbearable bear situation?

In mid-June, Slovakia may have registered its first fatality of a bear encounter in the past 100 years. Is the situation with bears in the Slovak forests really so critical?

75 years of the British Council in Bratislava

Providing informal soirees with conversation about fishing in the late 1940s or teaching Slovak politicians English in the 1990s. Movie screenings, a library as well as medical consultations. Those w ...

Soviet soldiers left Czechoslovakia 30 years ago

On Monday, 30 years have passed since the last transport with Soviet soldiers left Czechoslovakia. Moreover, June 21 is marked as a remembrance day of this event.

Clean Rivers Experience: Removing waste from Slovak rivers

As a well-known slogan goes, there is no planet B. Therefore, over the past few years many NGOs as well as individuals have launched various environmental projects in order to save the only planet we c ...

Eko Alarm project teaching schools to recycle

When I started attending elementary school 20 years ago, I remember one rubbish bin standing in the corner.