SUMMARY - Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 1 p.m.

Bratislava, January 17 (TASR) - Parliament elected Eduard Burda as the chairman of the State Commission for Elections and Supervision of the Financing of Political Parties in a secret ballot on Tuesday (January 16) evening, Parliamentary Chair Peter Pellegrini (Voice-SD) announced following the vote. https://etasr.sk/article/20284585 Bratislava, January 17 (TASR) - Jan Palach's act had a meaning, and it contributed to the fact that the period of 'normalisation' and darkness finally ended, President Zuzana Caputova has posted on a social network to mark the 55th anniversary of student Jan Palach's self-immolation in the centre of Prague. https://etasr.sk/article/20284639 Bratislava, January 17 (TASR) - Year-on-year (y-o-y) inflation measured by the EU's Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) amounted to 6.6 percent in December 2023, down from the 6.9 percent seen in November, the Statistics Office reported on Wednesday. https://etasr.sk/article/20284714 Bratislava, January 17 (TASR) - The Kunsthalle Bratislava gallery will be taken over by the Slovak National Gallery (SNG), the Culture Ministry announced on Wednesday. https://etasr.sk/article/20284864 Bratislava, January 17 (TASR) - President Zuzana Caputova on Wednesday morning received legal experts and authorities to hold a roundtable discussion with them about changes to the Penal Code that are currently undergoing a debate in Parliament. https://etasr.sk/article/20284899 Trencin, January 17 (TASR) - Trencin police have detained and pressed charges against an 18-year-old student who threatened to shoot his secondary-school classmates, the police have reported on Facebook. https://etasr.sk/article/20284903 Bratislava, January 17 (TASR) - Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) MPs Martina Holeckova and Jan Horecky have announced that they want to initiate an MPs' probe at re-education facilities in response to recent findings of the Prosecutor-General's Office regarding grave human rights violations against children at these centres. https://etasr.sk/article/20284983 Bratislava, January 17 (TASR) - The opposition Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) has said that it doesn't agree with the notion of the European Parliament interfering in the political struggle in Slovakia in relation to scrapping the Special Prosecutor's Office and amending the Penal Code. https://etasr.sk/article/20285034 Bratislava, January 17 (TASR) - The parliamentary agriculture and environment committee will hold a special session concerning the case of Tatra National Park (TANAP) director Peter Olexa on Thursday (January 18), according to an announcement published on Parliament's website. https://etasr.sk/article/20285038 Brussels/Strasbourg, January 17 (TASR-correspondent) - The European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday adopted a resolution in which it criticised a draft amendment to the Penal Code submitted by Robert Fico's government. https://etasr.sk/article/20285043 Notice: If you click on the link or copy it into the search window, the browser will display the full text of the message in the new e-TASR client zone. If you have any questions, please contact obchod@tasr.sk. ko