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Suburban transport in Bratislava Area to enhance, registration for regulated parking in Bratislava launched, utility regulator pronounces worth caps for 2022.

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Good afternoon. The weekend is coming and we’ve got ready a fast abstract of the principle information of the day in our Friday, December 3, 2021 version of Today in Slovakia. We want you a nice learn.

For weekend suggestions and reads, take a look at ourSpectacular Slovakia weekly roundup. This week, Peter Dlhopolec is writing a couple of winter date with zoo animals, swimming in Orava and a made-up story a couple of well-known Danish writer.

New markings for parking places in Petržalka.

New markings for parking locations in Petržalka. (Supply: Courtesy of Petržalka council)

Bratislava has launched registration within the regulated parking system for the primary places the place the city-wide parking coverage will probably be launched at the start of subsequent 12 months. The intention of the Bratislava Parking Assistant (PAAS), which is the official title of the scheme, is to set clear guidelines for parking and enhance the parking potentialities for residents.

The town-wide parking coverage will probably be launched on January 10, 2022, within the following zones: Krasňany in Rača, Tehelné Pole in Nové Mesto and Dvory 4 in Petržalka. Till this date, there may be unregulated parking in Krasňany and particular guidelines apply in Tehelné pole and Dvory 4.

Residents of those zones can register and buy resident parking playing cards on the web site www.paas.sk.

“Registration is not going to be affected in any method by the present lockdown, because the system doesn’t usually require a private go to to places of work, proof of ID or numerous paperwork,” mentioned Katarína Rajčanová, spokesperson of Bratislava, as cited within the press launch. “As the primary data system in Slovakia, it integrates and makes use of 5 state registers.”

Picture of in the present day

Jozef (Jumping Joe) Sabovčík, a Slovak figure skater (the 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time European champion (1985 and 1986), and a six-time Czechoslovak national champion) will celebrate his 58th birthday on Saturday, December 4.

Jozef (Leaping Joe) Sabovčík, a Slovak determine skater (the 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, a two-time European champion (1985 and 1986), and a six-time Czechoslovak nationwide champion) will have a good time his 58th birthday on Saturday, December 4. (Supply: TASR)

Function story for in the present day

“Hans Christian Andersen fell in love with Bratislava. ‘Your metropolis is a fairy story.’ That is how he as soon as addressed the folks of Bratislava, who welcomed him to the grounds of their metropolis,” the Slovak press wrote again then.

As we speak, a reader will be taught on the web: “Awkward fact: the saddest fairy story arose in Bratislava! Throughout a stroll by means of town, the author seen just a little woman promoting matches on the road. The go to to Bratislava impressed Andersen to put in writing The Little Match Woman and The Ugly Duckling.”

The Slovak information company TASR and on-line media have unfold these fabulations in regards to the author’s “deep impressions of town” for thus lengthy that consequently, Andersen’s statue stands in Bratislava together with the existence of the made-up story featured in journey guides. What has been mentioned in Slovakia in regards to the world-famous author is the precise fairy story.

He spent solely two hours in Bratislava, throughout which coal was being loaded right into a steamer, and by no means mentioned what has been attributed to him up to now.

Yes, Andersen visited Bratislava. The rest is just fairy tales Read more

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Coronavirus and vaccination information

15,278 folks had been newly identified as Covid optimistic out of 42,403 PCR checks carried out on Thursday. Numbers added for November are behind these excessive figures. The variety of folks in hospitals is 3,404 and 90 extra deaths had been reported on Thursday. The vaccination price is at 48.21 p.c; 2,651,767 folks have acquired the primary dose of the vaccine. Extra stats on Covid-19 in Slovakia here.
The Well being Ministry will buy a direct-acting antiviral medication with the lively substance molnupiravir for sufferers with Covid-19 for greater than €21 million with out VAT. A Dutch provider is to offer 5,760 therapy cycles by the tip of December. It’s to ship 10,400 therapy cycles by March 2022 on the newest and one other 14,400 therapy cycles by June 2022 on the newest.
The Italian every day La Stampa reported that Archbishop Aldo Giordano (67), the Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union, died on Thursday in Leuven, Belgium, because of Covid-19, which he contracted throughout Pope Francis’ go to to Slovakia in September. The Neapolitan every day Il Mattino writes that in the course of the closing day of Francis’ go to to Slovakia, dozens of church dignitaries, together with cardinals, grew to become contaminated in Šaštín, together with the then President of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, and a number of other nuncios, the Sme every day reported. The Convention of Bishops of Slovakia denies experiences that Giordano contracted the illness in Slovakia, arguing that he didn’t go to Slovakia between September 12-15.

Different information

The anticipated enhance in energy prices for households is coming to fruition. The Workplace for the Regulation of Community Industries (ÚRSO) revealed new caps for regulated costs of pure gasoline and electrical energy legitimate as of January 1, 2022. Households can pay extra for gasoline (round €5.50 to €230 per 12 months) whereas their annual electrical energy invoice will enhance by about €47 to €172. The precise invoice will rely on what folks use these utilities for, i.e. whether or not they use them just for cooking, or additionally for water heating and normal heating, the Pravda every day wrote.
Present and former carriers Arriva and Slovak Strains have agreed to cooperate by means of a subcontract to safe suburban bus transport in Bratislava Area, Juraj Droba, governor of the Bratislava Self-Governing Area, mentioned with out giving any particulars.
In Slovakia, it’s about 1.5 levels Celsius hotter than the Twentieth-century common. Warming has accelerated within the final decade. If it continues to heat at this price, the local weather in Slovakia could also be hotter by greater than 2 levels Celsius in the course of this century, climatologist Pavel Matejovič advised the TASR newswire, noting that the local weather in Slovakia could be the similar as it’s in present-day northern Italy. On the finish of this century, it might be just like the south of Turkey.
The everlasting short-time work scheme or kurzarbeit is not going to take impact in Slovakia till March 1 subsequent 12 months. Throughout January and February of 2022 employers and the self-employed will obtain allowances to keep up employment by means of the federal government’s present First Support bundle. Parliament handed respective laws on Friday, December 3.
If a prison authority finds in its investigation that the conduct of a governor of a central financial institution of an EU member state was manifestly not dedicated by that governor in his or her official capability, proceedings towards her or him could also be continued since immunity from authorized proceedings doesn’t apply, as stems from the recent ruling of the Court of Justice of the EU regarding the case of the earlier governor of the central financial institution in Latvia. Slovakia’s central financial institution governor can be being prosecuted – Peter Kažimír faces prices of receiving a bribe to secure political support for the purchase of the e-Kasa IT system when he served because the finance minister.
Dopravný Podnik Bratislava (DPB), the capital’s public transport firm, may quickly be the primary service with a fleet of hydrogen buses in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. On Wednesday, December 1, it introduced the winner of a contest for a provide of hydrogen metropolis buses. The Polish firm Solaris Bus & Coach was the profitable bidder with a suggestion of €24.4 million for 40 buses.