Anca Dragu

Slovakia is to withdraw its soldiers from Iraq - the 99 troops will come home in February next year. But Bratislava says it wants to keep good contacts with Baghdad and…

Slovakia's young scientists are looking for international experience. More and more, they are taking advantage of programmes which allow them to move around. The number of…

Slovaks love their potatoes and they eat a lot. But it seems the modern world of the EU and open markets is leading local farmers to stop planting them. Anca Dragu reports…

In Slovakia, the government and the utility companies are steamed up over energy prices. The government promised to lower fuel and energy prices by 5 percent but some…

Many non-governmental organisations are heavily dependent on donations from the corporate sector, and in Slovakia they put a lot of energy into lobbying for funding. But…

Relations between Hungary and Slovakia have been strained to say the least lately, with tensions in large part sparked by a reported attack on a Hungarian student in…

Transatlantic relations have been a bit rocky in recent years with differences over the war in Iraq, the Kyoto treaty on global warming, and the International Criminal…

Relations between Slovakia and Hungary are strained following a number of violent racist attacks against Hungarians living in Slovakia. Hungary's government has asked…

The European Commission has launched a campaign to improve health and safety in the workplace for small businesses in the recently joined EU member states along with…

In Slovakia the government's Anti-monopoly Office is under fire over the sale of the country's major airports. Its critics says it has succumbed to political interference…