Slovakia Spectator
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:59:13 +0100Slovak universities are reinventing themselves
Rector Jozef Habánik on demographic decline, international students, and the shift towards research, performance-based funding and labour-market relevance
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:33:33 +0100Top 10 events in Bratislava for foreigners
International acts take centre stage with a concert for Ukraine, a set by Taiwanese DJ Diskonnected and techno artist Sept.
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:15:44 +0100New lookout tower opens in eastern Slovakia village. Watch the new attraction
A 16-metre wooden structure in Pečovská Nová Ves offers sweeping views of three mountain ranges — and, on clear days, the High Tatras.
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:55:00 +0100News digest: Court hits pause. Fico presses on.
Fico ally convicted, bus carrying foreigners burns down, and a big Olympic Wednesday for Slovakia.
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:50:46 +0100Kaufland faces union complaints over working conditions in Slovakia
Retailer praised for HR standards accused of long work cycles and staff monitoring during collective bargaining talks.
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:47:21 +0100Scientists in Slovakia helping design light sensitive molecule to fight cancer
The potential treatment should be gentler and more targeted compared to currently used chemicals.
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:04:08 +0100What forty women in Bratislava taught me about love
February surrounds us with symbols of love, yet its most authentic expression often arrives in small, unplanned moments.
Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:13:52 +0100Oligarch Jozef Brhel, linked to PM Fico’s party, found guilty in corruption case – avoids prison
The first-instance verdict, delivered after more than three years of trial proceedings, is not final.
Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:57:00 +0100News digest: Fico meets Rubio, points finger at Kyiv over halted oil flows
Western Slovakia pupils on holiday, Roma king dies — and will orphaned bear cubs survive?
Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:28:22 +0100Bratislava’s newest import? Giant cinnamon rolls
A popular US bakery chain has opened at Nivy.
Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:07:00 +0100A phone deal leaves Slovakia’s football association answering difficult calls
Amid intensifying criticism from Sports Minister Rudolf Huliak.
Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:21:01 +0100How Czechoslovak psychiatrists helped the communist regime
Those who refused to conform were not jailed — they were diagnosed.
Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:59:36 +0100The Epstein associate who came from a Slovak town
Court records and emails trace Nadežda Marcinková’s unlikely rise through modelling, aviation and scandal.
Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:04:54 +0100Discovered 100 years ago, now one of Europe’s most extraordinary cave tours
Newly mapped tunnels and underground lakes make Domica Cave a must-see attraction in Slovak Karst National Park.
Mon, 16 Feb 2026 05:19:10 +0100A year on, questions remain over death of homeless Ukrainian man in Bratislava
Police have yet to conclude their investigation after security footage showed a confrontation hours before the man was found injured near a shopping mall.
Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:46:33 +0100‘I’ve never been part of a better loss.’ Slovakia clinches the group
Dalibor Dvorský scored with 39 seconds left.
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:10:48 +0100News digest: Soviets based nukes in Czechoslovakia, new archival discovery suggests
Robert Fico gets a student haircut, Košice might be Slovakia's most romantic – and possibly most dangerous – city, and a star of The Vampire Diaries swoops into Bratislava.
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:21:44 +0100A dish from Slovak tables features in a new list of the world’s worst foods
A curious story behind it, dating back to the previous regime.
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:07:00 +0100Immigration conflict in the 1500s
A now elite suburb was once known for growing cabbages.
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0100Four can eat here for €15. A local butcher’s shop outsmarts expensive restaurants
A selection of short feel-good stories from Slovakia.