The summit held in Warsaw early July brings the first results: Slovakia will be in charge of a NATO trust fund to be used for the removal of explosives, ammunition and for demining.
According to the Slovak President, over 600 people were…
Poland, Warsaw - “Poland will be sending another contingent to support Hungary’s border protection system”, Polish Minister of Interior Mariusz Błaszczak announced following a meeting of Visegrád Group (V4) Interior Ministers in Warsaw.
In addition to the hosting Polish Minister, the meeting…
Slovakia - Slovakia assures the rotating presidency of the EU council since the 1st July. Considering that the European Commission failed about the management of the migrant crisis, the new presidency wants to construct a "positive agenda" on migration policy and advocates…
Slovakia - On July 1, Slovakia takes the presidency of the European Union's Council for the next six months. The country of 5.5 million inhabitants, hostile to the compulsory migrant resettlement, has to put up with the post-Brexit situation and the new…
The main topics were economy and... football.
As Slovakia will take the presidency of the EU Council for the next half year, President Putin talked by phone with the Prime Minister Fico on June 14. The two leaders spoke especially about bilateral…
Central Europe - The first operational hyperloop train line in the world should connect Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest in 2020 in less than 20 minutes...
The news is stunning, and difficult to believe. But the first hyperloop train should be functional in…
Slovakia - The country's competitiveness ranking got six places higher than last year, according to the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2016, and thanks mainly to solid economic development.
Slovakia’s competitiveness improved considerably compared with 60 other countries across the globe. It moved…
Slovakia, Bratislava - Five weeks before the start of the Slovakian presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months, Prime Minister Robert Fico met with the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz and spoke again on migrants, Islam…
Slovakia - The Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family (ÚPSVaR) announced on May 20 that the unemployment was still decreasing in April, with an average of 0.25 % a month, or 2.04 % a year, and is now at a…
Slovakia, Bratislava - Slovakia's car industry is strong and a growth is expected in the economy, with an increase of the production, giving a boost to the Central European country's economy.
Both Kia and PSA group expects output at their Slovak factory…
Slovakia - Slovakia will take in July the EU Council presidency. The Slovakian government aims to avoid fragmentation and any East-West divide. Fico's government also wants to focus on strengthening the EU's external border.
According to Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, a…
Slovakia, Veľký Meder - At the border with Hungary, a car with illegal migrants did not stopped at a control and customs officers opened fire on the car. A 26 years old Syrian woman has been shot but her life is not…