SUMMARY - Thursday, November 24, 2022 - 9 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - In addition to the offer for a stabilisation allowance for health-care workers in hospitals, the government will also propose attractive conditions for a recruitment allowance, Prime Minister Eduard Heger (OLaNO) stated on Thursday, TASR was told by Government Office' press department. BRATISLAVA – The Slovak Medical Chamber (SLK) asks the government and the Medical Union (LOZ) to accept the latest proposal of the government to increase the coefficients, not the proposal for stabilisation allowances, and to reach an agreement, SLK president Pavel Oravec said at a press conference on Thursday. BRATISLAVA - The Health Ministry reached an agreement with the medical trade unions on seven points of the memorandum, with salaries, which aren't within the purview of the Health Ministry, remaining unresolved, stated Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky (an OLaNO nominee) on Thursday. KOSICE - It's necessary to protect EU external borders from illegal migration, Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Four (V4: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) countries concurred during their summit in Kosice on Thursday. KOSICE - Russia poses a threat to Europe, prime ministers of the Visegrad Four (V4: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) countries concurred at a V4 summit held in Kosice on Thursday. KOSICE - Hungary supports Finland and Sweden joining NATO, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared after a summit of the Visegrad Four (V4: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) prime ministers in Kosice on Thursday. BRATISLAVA - President Zuzana Caputova approved postponing the judicial map reform by five months, to June 2023, head of the President Office's communication department Jozef Matej told TASR on Thursday. BRATISLAVA - The Interior Ministry is preparing humanitarian aid for Ukraine for the winter months, ministry's spokeswoman Zuzana Eliasova told TASR on Thursday, adding that the ministry is procuring power generators, blankets, bed sets and the like. am