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Slovakian doctors' strike set to end after compromise deal
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 (...)

03 - 12 - 2011
Slovak parties make push for euro rescue fund compromise
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 (...)

04 - 10 - 2011
Slovak government challenged to find EFSF backing
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 (...)

02 - 10 - 2011
Slovak, Hungarian Companies Sign Pipeline Deal
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 (...)

09 - 09 - 2011
Slovakia's EFSF vote not before Dec - coalition party head
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 (...)

04 - 09 - 2011
Slovakian government agrees to euro bailout fund
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 (...)

17 - 08 - 2011
Nine-day-old baby dies after being hurled from window in Slovakia
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 (...)

17 - 06 - 2011
Flooding in Slovakia following heavy rains
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 (...)

28 - 05 - 2011
NATO secretary to visit Slovakia
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 (...)

18 - 05 - 2011
Cash machine bandits arrested in Slovakia after 30 heists
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, (...)

07 - 03 - 2011
Slovakia reports its first swine flu death of season
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 (...)

14 - 01 - 2011
Euro turns to problem for Eastern Europe
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 (...)

30 - 12 - 2010
Hungarian, Slovak premiers stress need for cooperation
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," (...)

14 - 12 - 2010
Slovak shooting likely linked to disputes among neighbours
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 (...)

31 - 08 - 2010
Agency: Gunman Kills 6, Injures Others in Slovakia
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 (...)

30 - 08 - 2010
Gunman kills seven in Slovak massacre, commits suicide
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 (...)

30 - 08 - 2010
Slovak government defends Greece bailout "No" vote
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 (...)

22 - 08 - 2010
Slovakia, Czech Republic hit by flood waters
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 (...)

15 - 08 - 2010
Slovakian parliament votes down joining EU effort for Greece
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 (...)

11 - 08 - 2010
Slovakian parties agree on government make-up =
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 (...)

28 - 06 - 2010
Prospective Slovak premier says EU informed about safety net steps
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 (...)

27 - 06 - 2010
Slovak president wants PM Fico to try to form govt
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 (...)

13 - 06 - 2010
Slovakia coalition fighting for survival
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 (...)

12 - 06 - 2010
Prime Minister: Slovakia hit by worst flooding in 1,000 years
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, (...)

05 - 06 - 2010
Slovakia recalls Budapest ambassador in dual
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 (...)

13 - 05 - 2010
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