Peter Pellegrini leaving Smer

June 10, 2020

“I'm leaving the brand and political party of Smer to its founding father,” he said.

Police raided the governmental agency, detaining four people

June 10, 2020

The state computer network Govnet may have been wiretapped.

National emergency ends on June 13

June 10, 2020

The proposal was approved by the government.

Lidice: a Czech tragedy’s enduring legacy, as marked in Mexico and embodied in girls’ names

June 10, 2020

June 10 marks the anniversary of the Lidice massacre, ordered by Hitler in retaliation for the assassination of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak paratroopers.

Post-coronavirus Slovakia facing major challenge and it is not ready

June 10, 2020

If we want to be a middle-income country, fine, but we should then stop dreaming about catching up with Austria or even competing with Czechia in the future, says a top expert on education and the labour market, Vladimír Šucha.

From lockdown in New Zealand to home quarantine in Slovakia. A COVID-19 odyssey

June 10, 2020

In which your correspondent inadvertently circumnavigates the globe in the middle of a pandemic.

“What was crucial was the hidden conflict with Havel” – Civic Forum’s Jan Urban on 30th anniversary…

June 8, 2020

Exactly 30 years ago, on June 8 and 9, 1990, the first free elections to Czechoslovakia’s Federal Assembly in over four decades were held. Following extremely high turnout, the Civic Forum, which had led the Velvet Revolution, received 53 percent of the vote.

Airports in Bratislava and Košice to resume regular flights from mid-June

June 9, 2020

The first regular flight will depart Bratislava for Sofia, on June 15. Hygiene measures will remain in place.

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