COP26: Can Slovakia be regional leader?
On 31 October the long-awaited UN Climate Change conference, also known as COP26, got under way. This year the conference is being hosted by the UK and will take place in Glasgow.
29. 10. 2021 | 13:59
Články / Economics and politics
Increased gas prices result in AdBlue shortage
The Administration of the State Material reserves plans to buy 500,000 liters of diesel fuel additive. Diesel exhaust fluid, also known as DEF or AdBlue, is a liquid used to reduce the amount of air pollution ...
25. 10. 2021 | 14:03
Unemployment rate at 7.09 percent in September, lowest figure since May 2020
The unemployment rate in Slovakia fell to 7.09 percent in September, a low since May 2020, when it stood at 7.2 percent. These figures were reported by Labour Minister Milan Krajniak (We Are Family) during ...
21. 10. 2021 | 14:13
Slovaks score second highest average debt in region
Slovaks have the second highest average debt in the Central and Eastern Europe region, an association called Working Poverty pointed out on Monday, referring to the latest Allianz Global Wealth Report ...
19. 10. 2021 | 14:45
Analysts expect further increase in prices
Consumer prices grew 4.6 percent on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis in September, which is the highest figure seen since November 2011, a whole ten years ago.
15. 10. 2021 | 14:32
Peter Kazimir does not plan to resign as Central Bank’s Governor
“I have no plans to resign”, Slovak central bank Governor Peter Kazimir, who is facing charges of bribery, stated in response to President Zuzana Caputova.
14. 10. 2021 | 14:16
Slovak takeaway from Czech elections
Last weekend, the eyes of Slovak political scientists and commentators, as well as politicians themselves, were turned towards polling stations across the Czech Republic, where citizens were deciding ...
13. 10. 2021 | 13:25
Coalition partners ready to discuss health and justice reforms
Almost no week goes by these days without Speaker of Parliament and chair of We are Family Party Boris Kollár threatening to walk out on the coalition, said Juraj Šeliga, MP of the smallest governing For ...
12. 10. 2021 | 12:00
Slovak President, PM congratulate Czechs on high election turnout
Both Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová as well as Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger congratulated the Czech Republic on its high voter turnout of 65.43% in the parliamentary elections which took place ...
11. 10. 2021 | 15:11
Hungarian government interested in buying land in Slovakia
Slovakia is concerned about the plans of the Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán, which has decided to allocate sums of money to buy arable land in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. This would ...
7. 10. 2021 | 14:20
