Several measures from Slovakia’s fiscal consolidation package, including new VAT rates, took effect this January. The VAT on selected food items and medicines dropped from 10% to 5%, while a 19% ...
Slovakia's healthcare system ranks as one of the weakest in Europe, sitting in fifth place for poor performance, according to a new Globsec study. Over the past three years, Slovakia has spent an average ...
Orthodox Christians in Slovakia, who follow the Julian calendar, are celebrating Christmas on January 7th. The Orthodox Church in Slovakia has almost 50 000 followers, most of them living on the ...
The entire governing coalition faces issues with the quality of the legislative process, as recent months have seen several bills passed through a fast-tracked procedure, often with unrelated amendments ...
The Slovak Medical Chamber has declared that recent legislative changes to e-prescribing represent a step backward in the digitalization of healthcare.
A unique event is being organized by the University of Prešov next month. In real-time, technical specialists—radio amateurs—together with children from the Prešov and Košice regions, will communicate ...
Radioactive waste from abroad can once again be imported into Slovakia. As of January 1, the ban on such imports, introduced in 2021, has been lifted. The change to the Environment Act was passed in Parliament ...
Fuel prices are expected to rise by about 2.5% at the beginning of the year due to rising oil prices and an increase in value-added tax, said XTB analyst Marek Nemky.
The President of the Slovak Republic, Peter Pellegrini, stated in his New Year’s speech that in 2025, the Presidential Palace will neither serve as an extension of the government office nor as a political ...
On Wednesday, January 1, the flow of natural gas from Ukraine stopped at the Veľké Kapušany entry point on the Ukrainian-Slovak border, the operator of Slovakia’s natural gas transmission network... ...
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