This may look familiar to longtime readers, but the shimmering ocean of 60,000 compact discs was recreated by Paris-based artist Elise Morin for Kosice, Slovakia during White Night 2014.
Globally, the declining price of crude oil has pushed down the prices of fuel, both petrol and diesel, but in Slovakia prices continue to outpace that of neighbouring countries.
The lesser spotted female eagle nicknamed Anička who has a solar transmitter attached to her body, enabling scientists to follow her and live broadcast her whereabouts, has ventured the furthest from Slovakia since scientists began tracking in September 2013
As part of the €315-billion so-called Juncker package proposed by European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker, Slovakia will apply for support for 125 projects amounting to €29 billion, the government said January 21.
Independent MP Miroslav Beblavý on January 8 filed two criminal complaints against Banská Bystrica regional (BBSK) Governor Marian Kotleba over the potential violation of constitutional law on conflict of interest.
SOFTWARE company Eset detected new attacks which infect the computers of users from central and eastern Europe, as well as Latin America, via email on January 20.
AUSTRIAN Group Raiffeisen Bank International will sell its online bank Zuno which operates in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, the Czech daily Hospodářské Noviny reported. The reason is the development in the European bank market.
SLOVAKIA’S counter-terrorism commando unit Lynx should move from its current location in Rusovce to Stupava, a town near Bratislava, in two years, the Sme daily reported in its January 22 issue. The former missile base near the Karpatia Hotel will be transformed into a training facility.
EDUCATION Minister Juraj Draxler will not lend support to the establishment of two new private universities: the A. Ruprecht Technology Institute in Šamorín (Trnava Region) and the University of Economy and Business at an undetermined location.
THE GOVERNMENT will alter the second, private savings, pillar of the country’s pensions scheme for the fourth time, said Prime Minister Robert Fico, as most people should not even be opting for this option.
