SUMMARY - Thursday, September 22, 2022 - 9 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - The new education minister could be appointed next week, Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO) said during the traditional Question Time in Parliament, which takes place on Thursday afternoons when the house is in session. BRATISLAVA - There's no room for coalition-opposition bickering when it comes to the energy crisis and the need to find solutions to soaring prices, opposition Smer-SD chair Robert Fico declared during parliamentary debate on the energy bill on Thursday and offered a "basic political truce" to the coalition in the name of helping the industry and the people. BRATISLAVA - A number of politicians, including Juraj Seliga (For the People), Gyorgy Gyimesi (OLaNO) and Economy Minister Karel Hirman welcomed opposition's Smer-SD chair Robert Fico's speech in Parliament, in which Fico stated that there was no room for the coalition-opposition bickering in the face of the energy crisis and offered an "elementary truce" to seek solutions together. BRATISLAVA - MPs decided on Thursday afternoon that they will discuss the draft to increase the salaries of health workers in a fast-tracked legislative procedure. NITRA - Agriculture Minister Samuel Vlcan (OLaNO nominee) announced that two educational organisations under the auspices of the ministry, the Agroinstitute and the Rural Development Agency, will be merged as of 2023 to create the Knowledge-based Agriculture and Innovations Institute, TASR learnt from the ministry press department on Thursday. KOSICE - The announced all-day warning strike on Monday (September 26) by trade unions in a transport company called eurobus in Kosice and Roznava won't take place, Anita Fakova of the KOVO trade union told TASR on Thursday, adding that the reason is the submission of an order on economic mobilisation. BRATISLAVA - Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO) received European Commissioner for Equality Helena Dalli at the Government Office on Thursday to discuss the issue of Roma communities. BRATISLAVA - Parliamentary Chair Boris Kollar (We Are Family) received prosecutors-general of the Visegrad Four (V4) countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) at Bratislava Castle on Thursday. BRATISLAVA - Interior Minister Roman Mikulec met with director of the European Centre for Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats Teija Helena Tiilikainen during the latter's visit to Slovakia on Thursday and concurred that the fight against hoaxes is of paramount importance both at national and international levels, TASR learnt from the Interior Ministry's press department on the same day. am