Sources: Ministerstvo zahranicných vecí Slovenskej republiky (Bratislava) and Slovakia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). At the recent ceremonies commemorating Slovakia's Constitution Day, Slovakia's President, Andrej Kiska, made remarks which strongly re-assert September 1st as a founding date, and therefore seems to rule-out the cancelletion of that annual non-working public holiday in Slovakia, as had been proposed in the past. [full story]