Bratislava, Slovakia News

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia .- Cisco today announced that Slovak telecommunications operator Energotel has deployed a Cisco Internet Protocol Next-Generation Network based on Cisco's optical networking and routing technologies.

Bratislava, Slovakia's capital, has risen to 30th place in a chart of the most expensive cities in the world, with costs rising above other regional capitals like Berlin or Prague.

Relations between Slovakia and its richer, larger neighbor remain ambivalent 16 years after their velvet divorce in 1993 By Dan Bilefsky NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, BRATISLAVA Wednesday, Jul 08, 2009, Page 9 ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE When the Czech Republic unveiled an avowedly satirical artwork to mark the beginning of its EU presidency last ...

Wizz Air Holding announced in Bratislava on Monday, June 29, that it intends to enter the Slovak flight market, launching its activities as of September with a Bratislava to Rome route, the TASR newswire wrote.

Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai is concerned about possible violation of minorities' rights in Slovakia due to the new law on Slovak language, he told Slovak Deputy PM Dusan Caplovic, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported today.

European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana opened a conference of Slovak ambassadors and leaders of representative offices abroad which is intended to discuss such topical issues as the accession of Balkan states to the EU.

Bratislava is the most expensive capital in central Europe when it comes to luxury housing, reports a new analysis by UniCredit Bank, the TASR newswire wrote.

Slovak gas distributor Slovensky plynarensky priemysel has signed a gas-supply contract with E.ON Ruhrgas, said SPP chairman Bernd Wagner at a press conference in Bratislava on June 29, the TASR newswire reported.

"We Have Defended Ourselves" is the name of the event through which military history aficionados commemorated the 200th anniversary of the siege of Bratislava by French Napoleonic troops in 1809 on Saturday, June 27.

Employees of the Chinese Embassy were not among the people who attacked the human rights activists on Hodzovo Square during the visit of the Chinese president Hu Jintao to Bratislava on June 18, the first secretary of the Chinese Embassy in Bratislava, Gao Hong, told the TASR newswire.

The recent heavy rains have caused river levels to rise, especially in the Danube and Morava Rivers.

Two more cases of A/H1N1 novel flu infection in Slovakia were confirmed by the country's chief public health officer, Ivan Rovny, on June 24 to the TASR newswire, bringing the total number of reported infections in Slovakia to six.

The 10 Czechs died near the country's border with Poland and Slovakia , with most of the damage near the town of Novy Jicin , 260km east of Prague .

A 31-year-old Nigerian national was arrested at M.R. A tefanik Airport in Bratislava on Tuesday, June 23, on suspicion - " later proved to be well-founded - " that he was smuggling drugs in his stomach.

Slovak President Ivan Gasparovie says his country supports Serbia's speedy EU integration.

SkyEurope Airlines, the second largest regular airline in Prague after the national air carrier Czech Airlines , was granted protection from creditors by a district court in Bratislava, Slovakia, SkyEurope spokesman Tomas Kika told CTK Monday.

Slovakia's low-cost air carrier, SkyEurope Airlines, has filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors as the company stated in a Monday morning, June 22, press release that the Bratislava I District Court has granted its petition, the SITA newswire reported.

A Specialised Criminal Court to be based in Pezinok, north of Bratislava, will be established, as 119 MPs backed the government's proposal to do so in a vote in parliament on June 18, the TASR newswire wrote.

Tractor-trailers hauling shiny Kia compacts or Citron minivans have been a common sight on Slovakia's D1 highway in recent years.

Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Slovakia for a two-day visit with nourishing economic cooperation on his agenda.