Some of the troubles caused in Slovakia by the introduction of the so-called Citizenship Act will soon be sorted as the government plans to return citizenship to over 900 or so people who lost it as a result wrangling between Hungary and Slovakia.
DECREASING crude oil prices is pushing prices at petrol stations down, but not as fast as in neighbouring countries and the Antimonopoly Office (PMÚ) is set to investigate.
MORE THAN 80 ski resorts are currently open and operating across Slovakia. The depth of snow on ski slopes where artificial snow is also used is at 30 to 50 centimetres in average. The skiing conditions in the localities are good to very good, the SITA newswire reported.
THE YEAR-on-year inflation dropped by 0.1 percent in December 2014, while the core inflation increased by 0.2 percent and net inflation by 0.4 percent, the Statistics Office (ŠÚ) informed on January 14.
DEPARTING head of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) Jaromír Pastorek will become the new government’s proxy for science, according to a decision passed by the government at its January 14 session.
THE NÁMESTOVO District Court exonerated Juraj Bernaťák, mayor of Trstená (Žilina Region), of charges relating to blackmail and the abuse of a public official’s powers back in 2011 as the director of the Cadastre Directorate in Tvrdošín.
The Czech bus operator RegioJet can finally start the long-distance bus line between Banská Bystrica and Bratislava. Banská Bystrica region(BBSK) granted it a license January 13.
To commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the birth of Slovakia as independent state, President Andrej Kiska on January 13 awarded state honours to 10 prominent figures from art, science, history and sociology.
