Negotiators working through the night forged a wage compromise Saturday that should allow striking Slovakian doctors
to return to work, dpa reported.
The doctors had demanded 700-euro-a-month raises, but the
government offered 300 euros.
A (...)
AlQa'dah 6, 1432, Oct 4, 2011, SPA -- Slovakia's governing parties were scheduled to
negotiate a compromise Tuesday for agreeing to expanding the euro
rescue fund, as the country is finding itself increasingly isolated
within the eurozone, dpa (...)
AlQa'dah 4, 1432, Oct 2, 2011, SPA -- Slovakia's ruling coalition will have to reallocate cabinet posts or face a snap election unless it can find its own majority in parliament for a crucial vote on the euro zone's rescue fund, Reuters quoted the (...)
Slovakia's Eustream and Hungary's OVIT have signed a deal to built a pipeline between the two countries, as AP reported.
The 115-kilometer (70-mile) pipeline worth more than 100 million ($138 million) will become part of a proposed gas route to (...)
The Slovak parliament will vote on strengthening the euro zone joint rescue fund in December at the earliest, the head of junior government party said on Sunday, prolonging uncertainty over when the new powers could take effect, according to (...)
The Slovakian government on Wednesday formally
agreed to changes in the European Union's Lisbon treaty which will
allow the establishment of a permanent eurozone bailout fund, dpa reported.
The European Stability Mechanism (ESM), agreed to by (...)
A nine-day-old baby died after being thrown
from a fifth-floor window of an apartment block in Slovakia, police
said Friday, according to dpa.
Police spokeswoman Renata Cuhakova confirmed the death in the city
of Levice to the German Press (...)
Slovakia was suffering from widespread flooding
Saturday after heavy rains across the country, dpa cited officials as reporting.
Flooding was reported in the southern city of Hnusta and nearby
village of Klenovec. The northern city of Spissky (...)
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is to make an official visit
to Slovakia, dpa cited NATO as reporting in a statement Wednesday.
Rasmussen is due to arrive on Thursday in Bratislava and (...)
Akhir 02, 1432 H/March 7, 2011, SPA -- A criminal gang allegedly responsible for
stealing entire cash machines and their cash content in a spree
across three European nations was arrested over the weekend,
Slovakian police reported Monday, (...)
Slovakian health officials Friday confirmed the country's first death due to swine flu this winter, addording to dpa.
The victim was a 40-year-old man from the eastern city of Humenne.
He died December 22.
Gabriel Simko, the acting director (...)
Bells pealed and fireworks shot across midnight skies in Bratislava two years ago, as Slovaks celebrated not only the New Year but also their country's long-sought entry to the club of nations using the continent's common currency, the euro.
Fast (...)
Slovakia and Hungary can only be successful in
Europe if they see past their differences and strengthen cooperation, dpa cited
the leaders of the two countries as saying Tuesday.
"Either we are successful together, or not at all," (...)
A shooting spree in the Slovak capital that claimed seven lives could have stemmed from the gunman's conflicts with his Roma victims, who were also his neighbours, dpa quoted officials as saying on Tuesday.
Interior Minister Daniel Lipsic said (...)
The Slovak news agency "TASR" says a gunman has killed six people and injured at least 12 others in suburban Bratislava.
TASR says the shooting happened on the streets of Devinska Nova Ves, on the outskirts of the Slovak capital.
TASR says the (...)
A gunman killed seven people and wounded 15
others before committing suicide in a Monday killing spree in the
Slovak capital Bratislava, officials said.
The suspect, whose age police estimated at around 50, shot dead
five people in an (...)
The Slovak government stands by its decision to be the only eurozone country to vote against the 110-billion-euro Greek bailout package, dpa cited the country's foreign minister as saying in an
interview Sunday.
Slovak Foreign Minister Mikulas (...)
Storms carrying heavy rain over central Europe
have caused flash flooding in parts of Slovakia and neighbouring
Czech Republic, local media reports said Sunday.
In north-western Slovakia, the TA3 television channel reported
that heavy rainfall (...)
The Slovakian parliament Wednesday made the
country's refusal to participate in the European Union rescue effort
for Greece final in a vote on the issue.
A bill recommending Bratislava's participation in the EU rescue
package gained only two (...)
The four Slovakian parties set to form a
government agreed today on the distribution of the ministerial
posts, said Iveta Radicova, who is set to be the nation's first
female premier, dpa reported.
The agreement clears the last remaining (...)
Slovakia's likely new premier on Sunday said
she has informed the head of the European Commission of how the
country would proceed with its approval of the European Union's 750-
billion-euro (928-billion-dollar) safety net, according to (...)
Slovak President Ivan
Gasparovic said on Sunday he wanted Prime Minister Robert Fico,
whose leftist party SMER won the most votes in a general
election on Saturday, to try to form a new government, Reuters reported.
But four centre-right (...)
Slovakia's three party governing coalition is fighting for survival in a parliamentary election on Saturday, challenged in a tight race by the center-right opposition, AP reported.
Prime Minister Robert Fico's left-leaning party _ which has (...)
Slovakia is experiencing its worst flooding in a thousand years, Prime Minister Robert Fico said Saturday.
Nonetheless, the country has experienced "massive luck" because the death toll is not higher than the three that have so far been reported, (...)
Slovakia has ordered its ambassador to Hungary
to return home for consultations in a row over plans by Budapest's
new government to offer citizenship to Slovakia's ethnic Hungarians,
Bratislava said Thursday.
Slovak Foreign Ministry spokesman (...)