SUMMARY - Monday, May 26, 2025 - 10 p.m.

Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) - The Police Labour Union rejects the idea of active police officers acting as gendarmes and requests the removal of this provision from the draft of the relevant legislation, TASR learnt from a social media post of the unionists on Monday. https://etasr.sk/article/22113814 Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) - Health Minister Kamil Sasko (Voice-SD) needs to realize that savings must not be made at the expense of patients, ex-health minister (2020-21) and MP Marek Krajci ('Slovakia'-For the People-KU alliance) declared on Monday. https://etasr.sk/article/22113798 Brussels/Bratislava, May 26 (TASR-correspondent) - The future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), as well as the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) epidemic and the state of agriculture in Ukraine and its impact on the EU, were among the main issues discussed at Monday’s meeting of the EU Council for Agriculture and Fisheries in Brussels, said Slovakia’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Richard Takac after the session, according to a TASR correspondent. https://etasr.sk/article/22113760 Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) - President Peter Pellegrini is prepared to sign into law any positive changes regarding the simplification of the transaction tax or the exemption of certain entities from having to pay it, TASR learnt on Monday. https://etasr.sk/article/22113676 Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) - Health Minister Kamil Sasko (Voice-SD) insists on the need for changes in pharmaceutical policy, pointing out that, under the current system, hundreds of millions of euros are being used inefficiently, TASR learnt on Monday. https://etasr.sk/article/22113488 Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) - Finance Minister Ladislav Kamenicky (Smer-SD) is not convinced that the transaction tax should be changed, coalition's SNS leader Andrej Danko announced after his Monday meeting with Kamenicky regarding SNS’s proposal to exempt sole traders and companies with a turnover of up to €100,000 from the transaction tax. https://etasr.sk/article/22113288 Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) - The transaction tax is slowing down Slovakia's economic activity and harming not only entrepreneurs and companies but all citizens of the country, while other measures adopted by the government — such as the tax on sugary drinks — have not helped economic growth, opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party MP Marian Viskupic declared at a press conference on Monday. https://etasr.sk/article/22113188 Lest, May 26 (TASR) - A battalion-level tactical exercise with live combat rounds during the deployment of units in the operation formed part of an inspection day of the Slovak Shield 2025 military exercise at the Lest Training Centre, Chief-of-General-Staff of the Slovak Armed Forces Daniel Zmeko told the media on Monday. https://etasr.sk/article/22113005 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