SUMMARY-Wednesday-December 11, 2019 - 10 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - The Public Administration Central Website (UPVS) www.slovensko.sk doesn't work properly and is overpriced, and in all likelihood the law was broken when it was procured, non-parliamentary Progressive Slovakia-Together election leader Michal Truban stated on Wednesday. BRATISLAVA - The Culture Ministry will announce a call for Slovak towns and cities to run for the title of European Capital of Culture (ECOC) 2026 before the end of 2019, according to a proposal on Slovakia's participation in the ECOC that the Government approved on Wednesday. BRATISLAVA - Two men who attacked and beat to death a 22-year-old Serb in Bratislava Old Town on Sunday (December 8) have been arrested in Hungary and charged with being accomplices in voluntary manslaughter, while the third attacker, a national of North Macedonia, has been arrested but not charged yet, the police have reported on their social network page. PRESOV - Machinery from the Czech Republic, which will demolish the upper floors of the apartment building in Presov devastated by a gas explosion last Friday, is on its way, said mayor of Presov Andrea Turcanova during a session of the city council on Wednesday. BRATISLAVA - Slovakia should increase its proportion of renewable energy from 12 percent to 19.2 percent by 2030, according to a draft national energy and climate plan (NECP) submitted by the Economy Ministry and approved by the Government on Wednesday. BRATISLAVA - The Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) is supposed to be an apolitical institution and therefore it shouldn't use political activities as grounds for termination, Education, Science, Research and Sports Minister Martina Lubyova (Slovak National Party/SNS) said on Wednesday. BRATISLAVA - The toll income distribution system does not sufficiently fulfil the main purpose of the toll system, so that the fees collected from users of motorways, expressways and first-class roads contributed significantly to their construction and maintenance, according to the report by the Supreme Audit Office (NKU) on its inspection of electronic toll collection at the National Highway Company (NDS), which the Government acknowledged on Wednesday. BRATISLAVA - It's highly questionable whether politicians should be involved in academia while politically active, Interior Minister Denisa Sakova (Smer-SD) stated on Wednesday. BRATISLAVA - I wholeheartedly agree with Education, Science, Research and Sports Minister Martina Lubyova (Slovak National Party/SNS) that the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) should be an apolitical institution and that mixing politics and science begets complications, but there's also a flip side to this - an SAV or university employee should suspend his tenure before joining politics and even though this is not stipulated so by the law, it's highly ethical and should become customary for any academic, ex-education minister Dusan Caplovic (Smer-SD) stated on Wednesday. am