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Grants from the Slovak Arts Support Council (FPU) are not legally claimable, FPU Council Chair Matus Olha said in response to this week's criticism from the Association of Self-Governing Regions of ...
The non-parliamentary Democrats party announced “Deep Ploughing” as its main policy direction, which, according to party leader Jaroslav Nad, is not an act of revenge but rather an honest and ...
In 2024, the average number of prisoners in Slovakia was 9,203, the lowest figure seen in the past five years, Alexandra Szakalova from the Justice Ministry's communications department has told TASR, ...
A total of 35 victims of human-trafficking were identified in Slovakia in the first half of 2025, most of them (23) being women, Interior Ministry spokesperson Matej Neumann told TASR earlier this ...
Saving is a problem for Slovaks, and, according to Eurostat data, they are managing to save only 7.2 percent of their gross incomes, while the EU average is 13.2 percent, Patrik Kindl, an analyst at ...
The coalition's Slovak National Party (SNS) called on President Peter Pellegrini on Saturday to request that Health Minister Kamil Sasko (Voice-SD) cancel the ambulance service tender in its entirety.
The Education, Research, Development and Youth Ministry considers support for the children of refugees from Ukraine to be one of the key areas, noting that it has implemented and continues to ...
Opposition parties Progressive Slovakia (PS) and Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) consider the upcoming away-from-home session of the House Committee for Public Administration and Regional ...
The opposition 'Slovakia' party told a news conference on Friday that the tender to operate ambulance services has been prepared for people agreed upon in advance, arguing that a company called Agel ...
This week's powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka coast was recorded by seismic stations across the globe, including Slovakia, Lucia Fojtikova from the seismology ...
The state budget deficit in July 2025 increased to €3.64 billion (January-July), while in July alone the deficit grew by more than half a billion, chief economist at CSOB bank Marek Gabris said in a ...
Jan Stovka has become the new director of the public-service Ethnic Minority Culture Support Fund (FPKNM) after Culture Minister Martina Simkovicova (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) appointed him ...