Anca Dragu

A recent report from the World Bank praises Slovakia as being the country which improved its business environment the most during the last year. The report called Doing…

Ethiopia has begun an ambitious plan to eradicate the tsetse fly. The insect carries a parasite that causes sleeping sickness that affects a few million people on the…

In largely Roman Catholic Slovakia, divorce rates have doubled in the last 15 years, and the issue is currently making the headlines, with the country's socially…

Although Slovakia joined the European Union only in May this year and will not be adopting the single European currency for at least another three years, its Central Bank…

Before Slovakia's accession to the European Union many worried that the cheap and skilled labour force will be the first item to emigrate to the EU. Well, surprise…

The Kia car company of South Korea recently chose Slovakia as the site of its new Hyundai car factory. Poland and other competitors for the lucrative investment missed out…

Slovakia has been accused of tax dumping by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and the former French European Commissioner Michel Barnier. It happened just as Slovakia…

The sound of a school yard isn't very familiar to many Roma children in Slovakia simply because many of them do not spend much time in school. Social assistants involved…

An international train is about to arrive at the tiny railway station of Skalite, a little town of 5,000 people located on the Slovak-Polish border and not so far from the…

Last Sunday morning the Slovak nation woke up to breaking news. Vladimir Meciar won the first round of presidential poll with slightly over a third of the votes. The…