SUMMARY - Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 9 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - Fees for treatment at inpatient urgent medical care departments and outpatient emergency departments should be increased, representatives of outpatient departments and hospitals concurred during their round-table talks held at the Health Ministry on Tuesday, Health Minister Michal Palkovic announced following the talks. POLTAR - Businessman Jan Riecica, who is behind a company called R-Glass Trade, which has been producing utility glass in Katarinská Huta for several years, bought the premises of former glass factories in Poltar (both Banska Bystrica region), TASR was told by the entrepreneur on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - Slovakia supports corridors of solidarity through which agricultural products from Ukraine reach world markets, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Jozef Bires, Transport Minister Pavol Lancaric, parliamentary agriculture and environment committee chairman Jaroslav Karahuta and prime minister's adviser for EU affairs Lubica Karvasova concurred at an online meeting with Ukraine's Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Solskyi and Ukrainian Ambassador to Slovakia Myroslav Kastran. BRATISLAVA - All age groups of the population are important to Prime Minister Ludovit Odor, premier's spokesman Peter Majer told TASR on Tuesday in response to an open letter addressed to him by head of the Union of Pensioners in Slovakia (JDS) Michal Kotian in which he pointed to an increasing generational division in society in the run up to the upcoming snap general election. BRATISLAVA - Banska Bystrica Regional Court has ruled that the far-right People's Party Our Slovakia (LSNS) has to apologise to the vice-chair of the extra-parliamentary Progresívne Slovakia (PS) party, Irena Bihariova, for the untrue information it has published about her in its newspaper and on the internet, PS communication department head Radovan Choleva told TASR on Tuesday. KOSICE - The Education Ministry announced a call to support the strategic development of the university infrastructure, the aim of which is closer cooperation via university consortia, the Education Ministry reported at a press conference in Kosice on Tuesday. BRATISLAVA - The extra-parliamentary Voice-SD party calls on the government to provide financial assistance to municipalities affected by floods, expecting the cabinet to take action and provide funds to local authorities in an operational manner, TASR learnt on Tuesday. am