https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AFzifG7CrcI/radoslav-tomek RSS for Node Sat, 09 May 2026 09:43:16 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-10/organized-crime-sweep-rattles-slovakia-s-elite https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-10/organized-crime-sweep-rattles-slovakia-s-elite Wed, 10 Feb 2021 05:00:16 GMT Igor Matovic (C), leader of the anti-graft political movement Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OLaNO), speaks to the media during the party's parliamentary election evening in Trnava, Slovakia on February 29, 2020. - Slovak voters handed a resounding victory to the centre-right, anti-graft OLaNO opposition party in Saturday's general election dominated by public anger over the 2018 murder of a journalist probing corruption, according to an exit poll. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP) (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-17/slovak-premier-asks-key-coalition-partner-to-quit-ministry-post https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-17/slovak-premier-asks-key-coalition-partner-to-quit-ministry-post Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:13:10 GMT Igor Matovic https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-02/billionaire-charged-as-slovak-premier-wages-anti-graft-crusade https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-02/billionaire-charged-as-slovak-premier-wages-anti-graft-crusade Wed, 02 Dec 2020 13:00:11 GMT Czech-Slovak Penta financial group confirmed that its co-owner Hascak was accused, considers police raid in its seat demonstration of force in Bratislava, Slovakia, December 1, 2020. +++FILE PHOTO+++Partner of the Penta Investments Jaroslav Hascak speaks during the press conference on business results and plans, in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 18, 2018. Penta Investments group raised its operating profit by 19 percent to record-breaking Kc10.1bn in 2017, with its sales growing by 21 percent to Kc178bn, and the consolidated net profit reached Kc6.2bn, which is the second largest amount after 2016. Photo/Michal Kamaryt (CTK via AP Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-02/covid-19-testing-for-most-of-a-nation-backfires-on-slovak-leader https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-02/covid-19-testing-for-most-of-a-nation-backfires-on-slovak-leader Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:55:27 GMT PRESOV, SLOVAKIA - NOVEMBER 07: A woman is registered before participating in the second round of antigen testing for Covid-19 on November 7, 2020 in Presov, Slovakia. Based on the recommendation of the Central Crisis Staff, the Slovak government decided to organise testing in regional districts where the number of tested positive was 0,7% and higher after the first testing from a week ago. Testing takes place from 7th to 8th November in 45 regional districts in Slovakia in so-called red zones leaving most of the southern part of Slovakia untouched by testing due to the low number of infected people identified by the first round of testing. (Photo by Zuzana Gogova/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-19/slovakia-to-repeat-nationwide-mass-virus-testing-premier-says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-19/slovakia-to-repeat-nationwide-mass-virus-testing-premier-says Thu, 19 Nov 2020 10:45:06 GMT KOSICE, SLOVAKIA - NOVEMBER 01: A health worker administers the Covid-19 antigen test to an unidentified youth living in Lunik IX borough on November 1, 2020, in Kosice, Slovakia. Lunik IX houses the biggest Romani community in Slovakia with 6,400 residents. The government has determined that the virus has the potential for significantly affecting this vulnerable community, and so has deployed the Slovakian army to assist some 20,000 medical staff in a coronavirus testing program aimed at reaching four million adults. (Photo by Zuzana Gogova/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-16/china-s-thirst-for-luxury-keeps-eastern-europe-cranking-out-cars https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-16/china-s-thirst-for-luxury-keeps-eastern-europe-cranking-out-cars Mon, 16 Nov 2020 04:00:00 GMT New automobiles, manufactured by Jaguar Land Rover, a unit of Tata Motors Ltd., sit parked at the Port of Southampton, operated by Associated British Ports (ABP) Holdings Ltd., in Southampton, U.K., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey urged the U.K. government and the European Union to reach a trade deal or risk seeing their economies suffer. Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-07/slovak-premier-weighs-more-nationwide-covid-testing-in-december https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-07/slovak-premier-weighs-more-nationwide-covid-testing-in-december Sat, 07 Nov 2020 19:57:28 GMT Igor Matovic https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/eu-state-that-beat-first-virus-wave-now-wants-to-test-everyone https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/eu-state-that-beat-first-virus-wave-now-wants-to-test-everyone Fri, 30 Oct 2020 05:00:00 GMT A medical worker prepares to test for the new coronavirus COVID-19 at one of the testing stations outside of the Kramare University hospital in Bratislava, Slovakia on April 8, 2020. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP) (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-26/slovaks-to-go-ahead-with-mass-virus-testing-after-pilot-run https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-26/slovaks-to-go-ahead-with-mass-virus-testing-after-pilot-run Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:36:19 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-20/accept-covid-19-testing-or-face-quarantine-leader-tells-slovaks https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-20/accept-covid-19-testing-or-face-quarantine-leader-tells-slovaks Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:37:14 GMT A health worker places Covid-19 swab test tubes into a rack as students undergo testing in the central hall of Leuven University in Lueven, Belgium, on Monday, Oct. 19, 2020. Belgium announced new measures to control the rapid spread of coronavirus, which will see cafes, bars and restaurants closed nationwide for four weeks, and working from home will becoming mandatory where possible. Photographer: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-07/huawei-blocked-from-sponsoring-security-event-in-nato-s-slovakia https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-07/huawei-blocked-from-sponsoring-security-event-in-nato-s-slovakia Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:40:44 GMT A corporate logo sits on a Huawei Technologies Co. NetEngine 8000 intelligent metro router on display during a 5G event in London, U.K., on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. Huawei said at the event it currently has 91 contracts for 5G, with 47 of those in Europe. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/letting-guard-down-hammers-support-for-former-eu-virus-standout https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-23/letting-guard-down-hammers-support-for-former-eu-virus-standout Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:09:20 GMT People wearing protective face masks wait in line at a coronavirus testing center in Prague on Sept. 21. Photographer: MICHAL CIZEK/AFP https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-03/businessman-acquitted-for-ordering-murder-that-rocked-slovakia https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-03/businessman-acquitted-for-ordering-murder-that-rocked-slovakia Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:31:17 GMT Slovak businessman Marian Kocner (C), suspected of ordering the 2018 assassination of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova, arrives at court where the verdict is expected in his trial in the Judicial Academy building in Pezinok, Slovakia, on September 3, 2020. - Kuciak had been investigating business activities of property developer Marian Kocner, when he and his fiancee Martina Kusnirova were gunned down at home near the capital Bratislava in a gangland style hit in February 2018. The double homicide triggered mass anti-government protests that forced then-premier Robert Fico to resign. (Photo by VLADIMIR SIMICEK / AFP) (Photo by VLADIMIR SIMICEK/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-26/ecb-s-kazimir-recommends-waiting-to-see-if-more-stimulus-needed https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-26/ecb-s-kazimir-recommends-waiting-to-see-if-more-stimulus-needed Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:38:31 GMT Peter Kazimir, governor of Slovakia's central bank, pauses during an interview in his office in Bratislava, Slovakia, on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Mario Draghi’s stimulus package buys some time for his incoming successor, Christine Lagarde, to settle in to her new role as European Central Bank president, according to Kazimir. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-13/eu-s-east-finds-positives-in-worst-quarter-since-communism-fell https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-13/eu-s-east-finds-positives-in-worst-quarter-since-communism-fell Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:00:00 GMT SLUBICE, POLAND - JUNE 13: Shoppers, mainly from Germany, walk among stalls at a border shopping area hours after Polish authorities reopened the nearby border during the novel coronavirus pandemic on June 13, 2020 in Slubice, Poland. Poland lifted restrictions on its border crossings to Germany, Austria and Slovakia starting at midnight, last night that had been in place since March to stem the spread of the virus. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/slovaks-expel-russia-diplomats-for-alleged-spying-official-says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/slovaks-expel-russia-diplomats-for-alleged-spying-official-says Mon, 10 Aug 2020 17:00:00 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-28/religion-is-gaining-ground-in-another-east-european-union-state https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-28/religion-is-gaining-ground-in-another-east-european-union-state Tue, 28 Jul 2020 12:37:31 GMT Igor Matovic, leader of anti-graft political movement Ordinary People and Independent Personalities (OLaNO), arrives for a televised debate following the results of the country's parliamentary election in Bratislava, on March 1, 2020. - Slovak voters handed a resounding victory to the centre-right, anti-graft OLaNO opposition party in a general election dominated by public anger over the 2018 murder of a journalist probing corruption, according to an exit poll. 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