SUMMARY - Saturday, 21 June 2025 - 5 p.m.

Bratislava, 21 June (TASR) - Slovakia dropped to 63rd place out of 69 countries in this year’s global competitiveness ranking, falling four spots from last year’s 59th place, due to growing structural challenges and insufficient response to changing global conditions, according to the Swiss Institute for Management Development (IMD) published by the Institute of Freedom and Entrepreneurship (ISP) earlier this week. https://etasr.sk/article/22197193 Bratislava, 21 June (TASR) - The Trade Union Confederation (KOZ) proposes to improve the targeting of energy aid, the efficiency of tax collection and the fight against tax evasion, or to reduce the number of state institutions as part of consolidation, instead of blanket cuts to the labour force of the public administration. https://etasr.sk/article/22197265 Bratislava, 21 June (TASR) - Speaking on STVR's politics programme 'Sobotne dialogy' (Saturday Dialogues), Defence Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) said that he has no problem with setting up an expert commission to check military purchases at his ministry, as requested by the opposition. https://etasr.sk/article/22197357 Bratislava, 21 June (TASR) - The Council of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) has supported the constitutional changes in a resolution, KDH leader Frantisek Majersky told journalists following the KDH Council meeting in Bratislava on Saturday, calling on his party MPs to back the draft in its third reading. https://etasr.sk/article/22197371 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