SUMMARY - Wednesday, October 13, 2021 - 9 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - The Finance Ministry will release, if necessary, money for the health-care sector, which was planned in this year's budget to pay for state policyholders, Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky (an OLaNO nominee) said following a tripartite meeting on Wednesday. BRATISLAVA - Chief of Slovak diplomacy Ivan Korcok (SaS nominee) wishes to firm up economic cooperation with Spain, TASR learnt from the Foreign and European Affairs Ministry press department on Wednesday. BRATISLAVA - The privately-owned Union health insurer finds insulting the statements by Finance Minister Igor Matovic's (OLaNO) about private health insurers funnelling their profits into Cypriot accounts, Union spokesperson Beata Dupalova Ksenzsighova told TASR on Wednesday. BRATISLAVA - I'm looking forward to next special parliamentary session where I'd like to complete my speech on energy prices, Economy Minister Richard Sulik (Freedom and Solidarity/SaS) said in response to the initiative of the Smer-SD party that wants to initiate a no-confidence motion in him. BRATISLAVA - Rector of the Comenius University in Bratislava Marek Stevcek decorated American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate Kip S. Thorn with the Great Gold Medal on Wednesday over his decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves, TASR learnt on the same day. BRATISLAVA - The Health Ministry has launched registration for the third COVID-19 vaccination booster shot on a voluntary basis, for patients with weak immunity, TASR learnt from ministry spokesperson Zuzana Eliasova on Wednesday. BRATISLAVA - Slovak President Zuzana Caputova is set to leave on Thursday (October 14) morning for an official visit to Slovenia, TASR learnt from spokesperson for the head of state Martin Strizinec on Wednesday, adding that the visit will take place at the invitation of Slovenian President Borut Pahor. BRATISLAVA - The state has no business dictating to commercial radios what to play, Culture Minister Natalia Milanova (OLaNO) declared in her response to the criticism raised against the motion to scrap Slovak music mandatory quotas for commercial radios. BRATISLAVA - It has been possible since Wednesday to apply for vaccination against COVID-19 of children aged 5 to 11, TASR was told by spokesperson for the Health Ministry Zuzana Eliasova. BRATISLAVA - Scaring patients with public money being funneled to Cyprus is pub talk, private-owned health insurer Dovera claimed in response to Finance Minister Igor Matovic's (OLaNO) statements on Wednesday. am