SUMMARY - Friday, April 29, 2022 - 1 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - Parliament on Friday continued with the debate on the request of the Special Prosecutor's Office to allow ex-premier and Smer-SD chair Robert Fico to be prosecuted in custody. About 30 lawmakers are still registered to give speeches. BRATISLAVA - Slovakia is applying for the first payment from the Recovery and Resilience Plan, amounting to almost €460 million, said Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO) on Friday, adding that the country has managed to cover all the 14 milestones required. BRATISLAVA - Ex-premier and Smer-SD leader Robert Fico has filed an objection of bias against parliamentary mandate and immunity committee head Anna Andrejuvova (OLaNO) regarding the Special Prosecutor's Office request to allow his prosecution in custody. Fico, therefore, asked Parliament to convene its gremium on Friday morning. The gremium meeting should start at 10.30 a.m. BRATISLAVA - President Zuzana Caputova in Kosice on Friday signed laws related to the court map reform - the law on seats of districts courts and the law on administrative courts. BRATISLAVA - The police found a dead man in a house in Bratislava's Old Town on Friday morning, Bratislava regional police spokeswoman Silvia Simkova told TASR on the same day, adding that four other people were transported to hospital. According to TV Joj, the dead man is businessman Rastislav Bilas, known from the scandal involving the sale of carbon-dioxide emission quotas by US company Interblue Group back in 2008. BRATISLAVA - A total of 4,048 Ukrainians crossed the Slovak-Ukrainian border into Slovakia on Thursday (April 28), of which 2,342 were women, 837 children and 869 men, the Interior Ministry's press department head Sona Valasikova told TASR on Friday, adding that 3,089 Ukrainians crossed the border in the opposite direction. BRATISLAVA - Poland is ready to protect Slovakia's airspace when its MiG-29 fighters are unable to fly, Slovak Defence Minister Jaroslav Nad (OLaNO) announced following his meeting with his Polish counterpart Mariusz Blaszczak on Friday. ko