SUMMARY - Thursday, May 9, 2024 - 2 p.m.

Bratislava, May 9 (TASR) - Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok (Voice-SD) and his Italian counterpart Matteo Piantedosi have signed an intergovernmental agreement on closer police cooperation in the fight against organised crime, TASR learnt from the Interior Ministry's press department on Thursday. Bratislava, May 9 (TASR) - The investigation into Tuesday's (May 7) extensive false bomb alerts against schools will be overseen by a prosecutor of the Prosecutor-General's Office's serious crimes department and prosecuted as an aggravated terrorist attack, punishable by life imprisonment, according to information provided to TASR by Prosecutor-General's Office spokesperson Zuzana Drobova on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/20680260 Bratislava, May 9 (TASR) - Slovakia posted a foreign trade surplus of €577.4 million in March 2024, a sum that amounts to a year-on-year decrease of €119.4 million, the Statistics Office reported on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/20680187 Bratislava, May 9 (TASR) - An investigator has submitted a proposal to a prosecutor of the Prosecutor-General's Office to indict attorney Frantisek P. [name abbreviated due to legal reasons] in the Corrumpere 1 case, Prosecutor-General's Office spokesperson Jana Tokolyova told TASR on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/20680130 Bratislava, May 9 (TASR) - The police have been supervising the security of children in schools on Thursday morning, with the Police Corps Presidium stating that the increased vigilance is linked to threatening emails addressed to schools across Slovakia on Tuesday (May 7). https://etasr.sk/article/20680122 Bratislava, May 9 (TASR) - The new Ministry of Tourism and Sports is due to be headquartered at Warehouse No. 7 near a Bratislava administrative centre on the bank of the Danube River, as the Government greenlighted a proposal to rent out commercial premises on behalf of the ministry at its session on Wednesday (May 8). https://etasr.sk/article/20679948 Bratislava, May 9 (TASR) - The Judicial Council is slated to elect its new chair on Tuesday (May 14), with the sole candidate thus far being judge Marcela Kosova, who was nominated by six representatives of judges sitting on the Council, TASR has learnt from Judicial Council Office spokesperson Veronika Vasilkova. https://etasr.sk/article/20679882 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. mf