SUMMARY-Thursday, November 26, 2020 - 10 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - I want to prepare a plan with a solution that will allow schools to reopen by Monday, November 30, when I also intend to present it to the central crisis management team, Education, Science, Research and Sport Minister Branislav Groehling (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS) stated during a live stream, which is regularly broadcast by the Education Ministry on Thursday. BRATISLAVA - A prosecutor of the Special Prosecutor's Office (USP) has instructed a National Criminal Agency (NAKA) investigator to verify claims made by SaS MP Alojz Baranik concerning alleged corruption among prosecutors, TASR learnt from USP spokesperson Jana Tokolyova on Thursday. BRATISLAVA - The Culture Ministry has recorded only a small number of subsidy applications submitted by people working in technical and support artistic professions who have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic since the project was launched on Monday (November 23), Culture Minister Natalia Milanova (OLaNO) declared on Thursday. BRATISLAVA - The next round of hospital debt relief, which should take place next year, will certainly not be the last, Martin Vlachynsky, an analyst at the Economic and Social Analysis Institute (INESS), told TASR on Thursday. BRATISLAVA - The decision by Hungary and Poland to block the passing of the long-term EU budget and its concomitant EU recovery plan could damage Slovakia's interests, thinks Slovak President Zuzana Caputova. BRATISLAVA - President Zuzana Caputova received this year's laureates of the 'Military Act of the Year' award on Thursday, TASR learnt on the same day. BRATISLAVA - No changes have been made to the OLaNO leadership following a party congress on Monday (November 23), with Eduard Heger, Julius Jakab, Jaroslav Nad, Jozef Viskupic and Michal Sipos staying on as party vice-chairs, TASR learnt from Peter Dojcan of OLaNO media team on Thursday. LECH - Slovak skier Petra Vlhova triumphed in women's World Cup parallel giant slalom, defeating American Paula Moltzan in the finals in the Austrian resort of Lech-Zurs and winning the third consecutive World Cup race, TASR learnt on the same day. BRATISLAVA - The EU budget delay and postponment of the EU recovery fund imperil interests of Slovakia and the entire EU, chief of Slovak diplomacy Ivan Korcok declared during a video conference with diplomatic missions of the EU countries accredited in Slovakia on Thursday. NITRA - Former Justice Ministry state secretary Monika J. [name abbreviated due to legal reasons], facing charges of corruption, spent almost ten hours giving testimony to investigators of the National Criminal Agency (NAKA), her lawyer Peter Erdos told TASR on Thursday. BRATISLAVA - The Slovak Towns Union (UMS) is ready to support testing at primary schools founded by local governments, TASR was told by UMS spokeswoman Daniela Pirselova following the meeting with the Education Ministry and member towns on Thursday. am