Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

Another part of the series dedicated to 20 years of Slovakia in the EU. Our colleague Kay Zeisberg offers insight into his homeland Germany. On 27 June, 1944, Milan Hodža died in the US city of Clearwater. Listen about this significant personality of Slovak history.

One of the few things in our modern world that has not changed for centuries is our need for forests. They provide so much more than the wood we all consume in myriads of forms in our daily lives. Forests are the lungs of the planet. They sequester carbon, provide habitat for many animals, and offer people a place to rest and reset. To keep many of our private and public forests healthy and productive, we turn to foresters. They employ skills that have been handed down for generations and use the most advanced science for understanding how forests grow and change.

In Slovakia, many start their education path in the handful of forestry high schools spread across the country. One of the oldest of these schools is still in operation today. It lies in the low Tatras in a village called Liptovský Hrádok. Stredná odborná škola lesnícka a drevárska Jozefa Dekreta Matejovie is a school like no other. In the show, we toured the school to discover the traditions and science driving this unusual but important education path.

Ben Pascoe finds out about the cultural summer programs that cities around Slovakia have prepared for us this year.

In this Monday show, Patka is going to talk about Hungary in another part of the RSI cycle 20 years of Slovakia in the European Union. In the second half of the show, you are going to hear Patka talking to a few poets who participate in the slam poetry movement in Slovakia. They are going to talk about what inspires them, how is the slam community in Slovakia like and if they think they can change the world.

Last days of RTVS, Parliament has approved transformation of RTVS to STVR. Newly inaguruated president Peter Pellegrini at negotiations in Brussels. Slovakia supports the communique of the peace summit in Switzerland. Slovak victory over Belgium at EURO 2024. SKEU20: Luxembourg.

In honor of the inauguration of the new Slovak president Peter Pelegrini on June 15th, Martina and Paťka visit the concert hall in the building of Slovak Radio and talk about past presidents of the Slovak Republic. They also play some music by artists honored by the last president Zuzana Čaputová.

In this part of the series mapping 20 years of the Slovak membership in the EU, our colleague from the German section, Jana Hrbekova, talked not only to Ambassador Guna Japina but also to Ints Plavnieks, a Latvian living in Slovakia. The season of summer festivals has started with RSI inviting you to KVANTUM and yet another POHODA. More culture news will follow.

Introducing Lithuania in our "Twenty years of Slovakia in the European Union cycle". Next, we present the project Gender equality in Romani communities in the interview with members of the non-profit organisation Človek v tiesni (Man in Peril).

Euro 2024 has started in Germany and Slovakia is once again taking part. Ben Pascoe talks with football journalist Ondrej Lauko about the Slovak team and their chances.

In this show, Paťka is going to talk about theatre play series that were recently translated into English. This production is about Generation Z and the issues these young people have to face on every day basis, which includes hoaxes, social media, body image among others. Paťka talks to some of the actors and also creators of the piece called Fantomas.