SUMMARY - Friday, September 23, 2022 - 9 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) has submitted a motion to convene an extraordinary meeting and vote of no confidence in Finance Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO), chairperson of the SaS parliamentary caucus Anna Zemanova said on Friday, adding that the proposal was signed by 32 MPs. BRATISLAVA - Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) is joining with the mafia, OLaNO leader and Finance Minister Igor Matovic said on Friday in response to SaS filing a no-confidence vote in him earlier in the day. BUDAPEST - If someone says that the principles of the rule of law are being violated in Hungary, as the European Commission is doing in this case, then it's ridiculous, former Slovak prime minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) stated in an interview with Hungarian commercial television HirTV. PRESOV/KOSICE - The Health Ministry presented new salaries and solutions for better health care to health workers in eastern Slovakia on Friday, ministry's communications department told TASR on the same day, adding that Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky (an OLaNO nominee) and State Secretary Lenka Dunajova Druzkovska visited J.A. Reiman Faculty Hospital in Presov and subsequently Louis Pasteur University Hospital in Kosice. KOSICE - The first surgical clinic of Louis Pasteur University Hospital in Kosice acquired a renovated and modernised Intensive Care Unit (ICU); it was officially opened on Friday in the presence of Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky (an OLaNO nominee). BRATISLAVA/PRAGUE - A presidential summit of the Visegrad Four (V4) countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) will take place in Bratislava on October 11, with Czech President Milos Zeman also personally attending the meeting organised by Slovakia, TASR was told by head of the Czech Presidential Office's international department Rudolf Jindrak on Friday. BRATISLAVA - State's powers in energy emergencies should be boosted and the Government should be allowed to determine the prices of electricity and gas during such emergencies via decrees, according to an amendment to the energy law that Parliament moved to second reading on Friday. am