SUMMARY-Monday-September 18, 2018 - 10 p.m.

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump received new Slovak Ambassador to the United States Ivan Korcok in the White House in Washington on Monday (September 17), the Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Ministry reported on Facebook on Tuesday. BUCHAREST - Connecting Europe by roads and railways as well as by gas pipelines to further unite Europe as a whole was the main topic discussed at the Three Seas Initiative summit in Bucharest, Romania on Tuesday, TASR learnt on the same day. SVIDNIK - It is necessary to speak about the observance of laws and public order no matter whether it's a Roma settlement or a village, stated Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) in Svidnik (Presov region) on Tuesday after an away-from-home session of the Cabinet. BRATISLAVA - A Smer-SD-sponsored constitutional bill on introducing caps for pension age, which potentially wouldn't be allowed to exceed 64, was passed to the second round of discussions in Parliament on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - The construction of a gas pipeline link between Slovakia and Poland was ceremonially launched at the gas transport hub in Velke Kapusany (Kosice region) on Tuesday, with Slovak Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, who attended the event, praising it as an important contribution to Slovakia's energy security. BRATISLAVA - The Slovak Defence Ministry is continuing its bilateral talks with the Czech Republic on co-operation in the modernisation process of the Slovak and Czech militaries, stated Slovak Defence Minister Peter Gajdos at an away-from-home session of the Cabinet in Svidnik (Presov region) on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - More than 600 jobs have been created in underdeveloped Svidnik district (Presov region) since an action plan with the support of the Cabinet's special regional fund and EU funds was launched two years ago, while the goal is creating another around 800 jobs by 2020, Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini said after a Cabinet meeting in Svidnik on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - People in Slovakia are so worn out by work that politicians shouldn't allow a situation to arise in which they "retire from work straight to the cemetery", said Opposition We Are Family chairman Boris Kollar, whose party on Tuesday assisted the governing Smer-SD in passing a constitutional bill on pension age caps at 64 to the second reading in Parliament. bub