Sources: Ministerstvo zahranicných vecí Slovenskej republiky (Bratislava) and Slovakia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). On the occasion of today's "Day of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows" annual non-working public holiday in Slovakia, a spokesperson for the ruling SMER-SD party, Lubica Koncalová, was quoted as confirming that the recent attempts at reducing the number of annual non-working public holidays in Slovakia had been shelved for the foreseeable future due to the unlikeliness of reaching a broad consensus on the issue with the current opposition parties. [full story]