SUMMARY-Monday-June 1, 2020 - 5.30 p.m.

PARTIZANSKE - The Education Ministry has launched a call amounting to €82 million to provide support for school-based professionals, said Education Minister Branislav Grohling (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS) during his visit to several schools in the town of Partizanske (Trencin region) on Monday to mark the reopening of schools following the break caused by coronavirus. BRATISLAVA - Foreign Affairs Minister Ivan Korcok (a Freedom and Solidarity/SaS nominee) will pay his first official visit to Hungary on Tuesday (June 2), TASR learnt from the Foreign Affairs Ministry's press department on Monday. BRATISLAVA - The return of older children to school as early as this academic year was one of the issues raised during a meeting of the expert consilium on Monday, said Prime Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO) during his visit to the primary school on Ostredkova Street in Bratislava. BRATISLAVA - Slovak entrepreneurs are expanding their business in the Czech Republic, and since last year they've added another 458 Czech companies to their portfolios, making them the most common owners of Czech firms (13,948) for the first time, according to the latest analysis conducted by consulting company Bisnode. BRATISLAVA - D4R7 Construction, the main constructor of the D4/R7 motorway bypass around Bratislava, denies charges brought by the police, claiming that the extraction of gravel near Dunajska Luzna in Janosikova locality (Bratislava region) did not cause any damage to the environment, the company said in a statement provided to TASR on Monday. BRATISLAVA - Changes in the judiciary were discussed on Monday by Supreme Court Chair Jan Sikuta and Justice Minister Maria Kolikova (For the People), with the topics of the first working meeting being the action plan for cleansing the judiciary, strengthening legal certainty and announced changes in legislation, TASR learnt from Supreme Court spokesperson Alexandra Vazanova on the same day. KOSICE - Judge Martin Vernarsky has become the head of the third senate of the Constitutional Court as of Monday, replacing Mojmir Mamojka, who resigned as constitutional judge in May, TASR learnt on Monday from an addendum to this year's work schedule of the Constitutional Court. BRATISLAVA - Parliamentary Vice-chair Peter Pellegrini (Smer-SD) has called on Prime Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO) to lift the state of emergency as well as the ban on gathering, TASR learnt on Monday. am