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Key trends shaping the Slovak labour market in 2025
The Slovak Spectator
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July 3, 2025
Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement The Slovak labour market in 2025 continues to evolve rapidly, shaped by digital transformation, demographic shifts, and changing employee expectations....
Ex-Plymouth club owner's first ever abroad holiday turned into 'life-changing humanitarian mission'
Plymouth Herald
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July 3, 2025
A former Plymouth club owner saw his first ever abroad holiday turn into a 'life-changing humanitarian mission' in 2022 - and now he's set to share his documentary in the city this weekend. Former Club Envy landlord, Spyke O'Hanlin, is screening a...
Polestar confirms new Slovakia production site ahead of range expansion
Express & Star
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July 3, 2025
Polestar has expanded its production facilities with a new site in Kosice, Slovakia. The Scandinavian manufacturer, which currently produces cars such as the 2, 3 and 4, will use the extra production space to create the upcoming Polestar 7, which...
New 2028 Polestar 7 to be built on Volvo platform in Slovakia
Autocar
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The company has now confirmed that "adaptations will be made" to the modular platform to ensure it offers "the driving experience and performance characteristics that Polestar is known for". Confirming the decision to use a Volvo platform and...
UN-Habitat president Nga calls for innovative approaches to green economy, low-carbon industrial parks
The Malaysian Star
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July 3, 2025
PETALING JAYA: In his capacity as the UN-Habitat Assembly president, Nga Kor Ming has called for innovative approaches to green economy and low-carbon industrial parks in a planned collaboration with the United Nations Industrial Development...
Bratislava-Copenhagen route takes off again after a decade
The Slovak Spectator
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July 2, 2025
Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement Norwegian Air has returned to Bratislava after more than a decade, reviving a long-dormant route that once connected the Slovak capital with Copenhagen. Since...
John Shortt secures fifth at European Juniors with personal best in 50m backstroke final
Irish Independent
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Ireland’s John Shortt delivered a standout performance this evening at the European Aquatics Junior Championships in Samorin, Slovakia, finishing fifth in the 50m backstroke final on day two of the competition. Competing from an outside lane, the...
Unhinged Globalist Regime Journalist Urges EU to Crush Hungary and Slovakia Over Sanctions Vetoes
The Gateway Pundit
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July 2, 2025
Andrew Rettman, writing for the EUObserver, a favored outlet among Eurocrats, has urged the European Union to escalate its efforts to pressure Hungary and Slovakia for their sovereigntist stances. He demands they submit to EU leadership,...
Folk art and Soviet-style purges: How Europe’s populists are hijacking arts and culture
The Parliament Magazine
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July 2, 2025
Hajnalka Somogyi was a 36-year-old curator in Budapest in 2014 when she made a nearly impossible gamble: founding a contemporary art exhibition without a cent of state support, in a country where the government is virtually the only patron. It...
Slovak MFA Blanár causes international outrage for his statements on forgiving Russia
BNE Intellinews
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Slovak Minister of Foreign Affairs Juraj Blanár has caused international outrage for his statement about the need to “find some way of cooperation and maybe also of forgiveness” to Russia. Blanár‘s Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha responded on...
Slovak Pop Up unveils new projects and welcomes international residency participants to Bratislava
Cineuropa
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01/07/2025 - The seventh edition continues to spotlight the diversity and ambition of Slovak cinema, with a fresh line-up of emerging voices and genre-driven stories Summer Lamb by Olívia Jánošíková and Marty Müller The Pop Up Film Residency has...
Alex Delvecchio, Detroit captain and quiet star with Slovak roots, dies at 93
The Slovak Spectator
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July 2, 2025
Alex Delvecchio, one of the Detroit Red Wings’ most enduring legends and a Hockey Hall of Famer with roots stretching from Italy to Slovakia, has died at the age of 93. Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video...
Student visa applicants to the US must now make their social media profiles public
Radio Slovakia International
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The U.S. Embassy in Slovakia has issued new guidance for all applicants seeking non-immigrant F, M, or J visas — that is, student and exchange program visas. Effective immediately, applicants are requested to change the privacy settings on all...
Slovak diaspora outraged by claims postal voting is not secure
The Slovak Spectator
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July 1, 2025
Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement When Prime Minister Robert Fico addressed an event hosted by the Czech nationalist-communist association Svatopluk at Bratislava’s state-owned Hotel Bôrik on...
Medieval gold ring unearthed in Slovakia holds Sri Lankan surprise
The Slovak Spectator
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July 2, 2025
Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement A striking 18-carat gold ring adorned with a deep red-purple sapphire, likely sourced from Sri Lanka, has been uncovered by archaeologists at Pustý hrad...
Hiring is easy. Integration is where Slovak firms fall short
The Slovak Spectator
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July 2, 2025
Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement The number of foreign nationals working in Slovakia has reached a new high, with more than 120,000 registered at the end of May 2025. As the country faces...
Weekend: Relive distant and not so distant past
The Slovak Spectator
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July 4, 2025
TRAVEL Slovakia's Mont Ventoux Article continues after video advertisement Article continues after video advertisement Craving a cycling experience reminiscent of the legendary Tour de France climbs? Don’t miss the newly reconstructed forest road...
In Europe, the socialists are backed into a corner as the right flexes its power
Il Manifesto
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July 2, 2025
Investing more in defense at the expense of the welfare state – as Latvia admitted openly last week – and then “defending” Europe from migrants: the main issues now debated inside the European Union lie far outside the left’s cultural universe, a...
OSCE ambassadors visit Kyiv for first time in eight years
Ukrainska Pravda
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The OSCE ambassadors. Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine A delegation of permanent representatives of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has visited Kyiv for the first time in eight years. Source: Suspilne, a...
European Commission to send delegation to Slovakia — Politico
TASS
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July 2, 2025
BRUSSELS, July 2. /TASS/. The European Commission will send a delegation to Slovakia on July 3 to negotiate the 18th package of anti-Russian sanctions with Bratislava, the Politico news outlet said, citing an EU diplomat. Leaders of the EU...