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Chmelar Starts to Collect Signatures to Support His Presidential Candidacy

Chmelar Starts to Collect Signatures to Support His Presidential Candidacy

Bratislava, April 23 (TASR) – Political analyst and educator Eduard Chmelar wants to run for the post of Slovak president, TASR learnt from his post on Facebook. Chmelar is starting to collect signatures and needs at least 15,000 of them. He’ll officially announce his candidacy when he obtains the

Slovak Rum Gets Temporary Exemption from Cancer-related Ban in EU

Slovak Rum Gets Temporary Exemption from Cancer-related Ban in EU

Bratislava, April 21 (TASR) – Slovakia and the Czech Republic have been given a five-year transitory period for using the recipe of a local sugar-beet rum, called since the two countries’ accession to the European Union in 2004 as ‘tuzemak’ or ‘tuzemsky um’, after the EU recently banned the use of

Bratislava City Gates Unsealed, Summer Tourist Season Kicks Off

Bratislava City Gates Unsealed, Summer Tourist Season Kicks Off

Bratislava, April 21 (TASR) – The symbolic unsealing and opening of the Bratislava city gates on Saturday officially kicked off the summer tourist season in Slovakia’s capital shortly ahead of the feast of Saint George, one of the city’s most popular saints in the past, albeit not an official

Cabinet: More Effective Dual Education Both for Schools and Employers

Cabinet: More Effective Dual Education Both for Schools and Employers

Bratislava, April 20 (TASR) – Employers, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, should find it more attractive to join the dual education system thanks to an amendment to the law on vocational education that was approved by the Cabinet at its session on Friday. The main goal of the Education Ministry-sponsored amendment

Premier: Situation Stabilised, Let's Get to Work

Premier: Situation Stabilised, Let's Get to Work

Bratislava, April 20 (TASR) – Each minister of Peter Pellegrini’s Government (Smer-SD) has been tasked with drawing up two lists of priorities that he or she will deal with, TASR learnt on Friday. Pellegrini after the Cabinet session on Friday added that the first list should contain tasks that will

Slovakia 24/7 - News in English

Slovakia 24/7 - News in English

Bratislava, April 20 (TABLET.TV) – Watch our digest of the week’s news with Juraj Simko called Slovakia 24/7, today featuring: * RESIGNATIONS OF POLICE CORPS PRESIDENT TIBOR GASPAR AND INTERIOR MINISTER TOMAS DRUCKER * INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATING TEAM FOR KUCIAK’S MURDER * SLOVAKIA’S VIEW OF THE ATTACK IN SYRIA

Kosice Regional Court Decides on Extradition Custody for Antonino V.

Kosice Regional Court Decides on Extradition Custody for Antonino V.

Kosice, April 20 (TASR) – Kosice Regional Court has decided to change the form of custody for an Italian entrepreneur living in eastern Slovakia, for legal purposes identified only as Antonino V., from preliminary to extradition. Antonino V. has been accused in Italy of drug-related crimes, and a court in Venice