SUMMARY - Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 9 p.m.

Bratislava, May 13 (TASR) - The Academic Senate of the Film and Television Faculty (FTF) of the Academy of Performing Arts (VSMU) in Bratislava expressed outrage over the course of Monday’s (May 12) election of the new general director of the Slovak Television and Radio (STVR), criticizing the exclusion of the public and media from the hearings and the failure to publish the candidates’ CVs, which the senate views as a violation of transparency and principles of public oversight, TASR was told by Peter Gasparik from FTF VSMU on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22054096 Bratislava, May 13 (TASR) - Chair of the opposition party SaS and MP Branislav Groehling will not respond positively to the letter from Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) and instead will call on the prime minister to normalize relations with the member states of the EU, TASR learnt from Groehling's social media post on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22054077 Bratislava, May 13 (TASR) - Vietnam, one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia and the world, offers opportunities for the development of trade cooperation with Slovakia and the entire EU, the Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Ministry press department stated following a meeting between Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar (Smer-SD) and Vietnamese Ambassador to Slovakia Pham Truong Giang on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22053916 Bratislava, May 13 (TASR) - Coalition politicians are exploiting last year's assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) for a political witch hunt, non-parliamentary 'Democrats' party stated on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22053752 Bratislava, May 13 (TASR) - The opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) party is calling on the Prosecutor-General's Office to oversee compliance with the law at the Slovak Arts Support Council (FPU), criticising members of the council for not attending meetings and attempting to circumvent the law, TASR learnt on Tuesday from MP Zora Jaurova (PS), who submitted the request. https://etasr.sk/article/22053365 Bratislava, May 13 (TASR) - The Interior Ministry will not purchase headwear from a company called Rempo, it's terminating the contracts, and it will file a criminal complaint, TASR learnt from the ministry's press department on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22053319 Budapest/Bratislava, May 13 (TASR-correspondent) - Relations between Slovakia and Hungary are excellent at the level of governments, parliaments and in all areas of mutual cooperation, House Chair Richard Rasi stated in Budapest on Tuesday after meeting his Hungarian counterpart Laszlo Kover, the special TASR correspondent stationed in Budapest has reported. https://etasr.sk/article/22053178 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