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Focus Poll: Voice on Top ahead of SaS and Smer

Focus Poll: Voice on Top ahead of SaS and Smer

Bratislava, April 11 (TASR) – If a general election had been held in late March and early April, it would have been won by Voice-SD of former prime minister for Smer-SD Peter Pellegrini on 22.3 percent of the votes, ahead of the co-governing Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) on 11.2

Matovic: Russians Ask Slovakia to Return Sputnik V and Scrap Contract

Matovic: Russians Ask Slovakia to Return Sputnik V and Scrap Contract

Moscow/Bratislava, April 8 (TASR) – Slovak Finance Minister Igor Matovic (OLANO), who as prime minister in early March arranged the purchase of the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia, announced from his trip to Moscow on Thursday that he was told there that Slovakia should return the vaccine and the relevant

COVID-19: Schools to Be Among First to Be Reopened, Says Groehling

COVID-19: Schools to Be Among First to Be Reopened, Says Groehling

Bratislava, April 7 (TASR) – Schools will be among the first to be reopened, if Slovakia begins easing measures to contain the spread of coronavirus, said Education Minister Branislav Groehling (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS) after talks with new Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLANO) on Wednesday. Groehling said that further moves concerning

UVZ: Individual Pastoral Services Should Be Sought Only Exceptionally

UVZ: Individual Pastoral Services Should Be Sought Only Exceptionally

Bratislava, March 31 (TASR) – The Public Health Authority (UVZ) on Wednesday recommended members of the public to ask for individual pastoral services as part of a new exemption from the curfew only in exceptional cases. UVZ listed several conditions for such an exemption, including good health of the person in

Constitutional Court Okays Extended Emergency State as Lawful

Constitutional Court Okays Extended Emergency State as Lawful

Kosice/Bratislava, March 31 (TASR) – The decision of the Government to extend the state of emergency by an additional 40 days and its measures approved on March 17 are in accordance with the Slovak Constitution, the Constitutional Court decided on Wednesday. The decision to extend the state of emergency was

Archbishop Zvolensky Slams Lengthy Public Worship Ban in Slovakia

Archbishop Zvolensky Slams Lengthy Public Worship Ban in Slovakia

Bratislava, March 26 (TASR) – Chairman of the Slovak Bishops Conference (KBS), Archbishop of Bratislava Stanislav Zvolensky, on Friday wrote a letter to acting health minister Eduard Heger (OLANO), in which he seemed to have lost patience with the lengthy ban on public religious services in Slovakia due to COVID-19. Zvolensky

COVID-automaton: 14 Districts in Black Colour as of Next Monday

COVID-automaton: 14 Districts in Black Colour as of Next Monday

Bratislava, March 23 (TASR) – A total of 14 districts will be in black colour in the COVID-automaton as of next Monday, while 58 districts will be in dark red and seven in medium-red, the Health Ministry announced on Tuesday, adding that Slovakia as a whole is black. The following districts