SUMMARY-Monday-May 20, 2019 - 10 p.m.

20. mája 2019 22:00
ZILINA - A public transport bus in Zilina crashed on Monday, leaving 25 passengers injured when 61-year-old driver veered off the road due to an as-of-yet unknown reason, TASR learnt from Zilina Regional Police Directorate spokesperson Jana Balogova on the same day. ZILINA - Minister of Transport and Construction Arpad Ersek (Most-Hid) will ask the Slovak Road Administration (SSC) and railway infrastructure owner ZSR to help repair the damage at Rondel elevated crossing in Zilina in the shortest possible time, TASR learnt on Monday. BRATISLAVA - Igor Matovic (OLaNO) considers his voters to be nothing, and he doesn't want to solve the country's problems but wants to see his name in the newspapers, MEPs Branislav Skripek and Anna Zaborska from the non-parliamentary Christian Union said in connection with Matovic's withdrawal from the elections to the European Parliament. BRATISLAVA - The OECD Presidency, which Slovakia holds for the first time, represents an important decoration of Slovak foreign policy, display of trust by other members and great prestige for Slovakia, Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini said on Monday. BRATISLAVA - Police officers assigned to the Office for Protection of Constitutional Officials (UOUC) should be an elite force, Interior Minister Denisa Sakova (Smer-SD) said after the session of the House defence and security committee on Monday. BRATISLAVA - Opposition OLaNO caucus welcomes the expertise of Roman Konecny, a Government nominee for the post of National Security Office (NBU) director, TASR learnt on Monday. BRATISLAVA - Slovakia's economy will grow by 3.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter of the year and by 3.8 percent of GDP in the whole of 2019, TASR learnt from the May short-term economic forecast, released on Monday by the Budgetary Responsibility Council (RRZ) on social networks, with the forecast also drawing attention to growth risks, including in particular weaker exports and unfulfilled anticipation of accelerating household consumption. BRATISLAVA - Members of the parliamentary economic affairs committee approved on Monday a parliamentary inquiry on the Bratislava bypass, which is part of the construction of the D4 motorway and the R7 expressway, with the committee requiring Transport Minister Arpad Ersek (Most-Hid) to ensure that all relevant persons and respective documents are present, including representatives of water managers and the Environment Ministry, TASR learnt on Monday. TASHKENT - By visiting Uzbekistan Foreign Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak (a Smer-SD nominee) started his four-day trip to the Central Asian region in the post of acting chair of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which Slovakia is chairing in 2019, TASR learnt from the Slovak MFA's press department on Monday. BRATISLAVA - I didn't ask to be assigned a security detail, EU's Special Envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief Outside the EU Jan Figel said in response to the information from the parliamentary defence and security committee, where they said that he also asked for a security detail, with the MPs addressing the topic because they dealt with former-premier Robert Fico's (Smer-SD) security detail. mf
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