The European Union introduced a EUR 3 customs duty on low-value e-commerce imports from third countries at the beginning of July. The change, primarily aimed at packages containing cheap goods from China, is already producing rather surprising results. The first data on packages from China show a significant drop in the number of orders in…
Bosch plans to close its plant in Bernolakovo, near Bratislava, and move its alternator remanufacturing operation to Serbia. The plant, which employs 148 people, will gradually end production until the end of March 2027 and close afterwards, Pavel Roman, head of corporate communications for Bosch in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, has said. Bosch has…
The situation on the Slovak labour market is deteriorating. In addition to the long-standing problem of long-term unemployment, particularly in marginalised communities, a factor the country has not experienced before is emerging: unemployment among workers with university degrees has increased significantly. The number of unemployed people rose to more than 150,000 YoY in the second…
Passengers travelling between Bratislava and Vienna will face temporary changes for five days in September, with some trains replaced by buses and departures from Bratislava leaving much earlier than usual. From September 14 to September 18, construction work on railway infrastructure in Austria will interrupt services between Bratislava-Petrzalka, Kittsee and Parndorf each day from approximately…
Due to increased demand, particularly from travellers using Vienna Airport, commercial operator FlixBus has launched a new service connecting it with Bratislava Airport, bringing the two closest national capitals in the European Union even closer. The 911 service operates four times a day, seven days a week, year-round in both directions. The only exception is…
Slovaks’ wages failed to keep pace with inflation in the second quarter of 2026, cutting their purchasing power for the first time in two and a half years. The average gross monthly salary reached EUR 1,707, up by 3.2%, or EUR 53, from a year earlier, the Statistics Office reported on September 2. After inflation…
Kaufland increased its profit in Slovakia to EUR 91 million while employees at the supermarket chain are voting on whether to give their union a mandate to call a strike following a long-running dispute over their first collective agreement. Profit rose from EUR 79 million to EUR 91 million in the financial year from March…