SUMMARY - Friday, 27 June 2025 - 5 p.m.

Bratislava, 27 June (TASR) - More than 50 people have applied for the National Defence Forces (NDF), Defence Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) said at a press conference on Friday, adding that the first training could start on 10 July. https://etasr.sk/article/22216741 Bratislava, 27 June (TASR) - The coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) disagrees with the actions of Premier Robert Fico (Smer-SD), who supported Ukraine's accession to the European Union (EU), pointing to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is the only leader who opposes Ukraine joining the EU, SNS spokeswoman Zuzana Skopcova told TASR on Friday, adding that SNS is convinced that Ukraine cannot join the European community now or in the future. https://etasr.sk/article/22216709 Bratislava, 27 June (TASR) - The last evacuation flight from the Middle East landed at the M.R. Stefanik Airport in Bratislava on the night of Thursday (26 June), Foreign Affairs Ministry's communications department told TASR on Friday, adding that the military aircraft transported 11 Slovaks and seven foreigners from Aqaba, Jordan. https://etasr.sk/article/22216573 Bratislava, 27 June (TASR) - Pavol Panis has been appointed as the new extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Slovakia to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where one of his main tasks at the Slovak Embassy in Abu Dhabi will be to further develop economic cooperation between Slovakia and the UAE, the Foreign and European Affairs Ministry told TASR on Friday. https://etasr.sk/article/22216503 Presov, 27 June (TASR) - The driver of a lorry died in a morning traffic accident on Friday when the vehicle collided with a tree shortly after 6.00 am in the Cemjata borough of Presov, the regional police headquarters in Presov reported on social media on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/22216443 Bratislava, 27 June (TASR) - The opposition party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) has criticised Prime Minister Robert Fico's stance at the European Council summit in Brussels, where Slovakia, alongside Hungary, rejected the new package of sanctions against Russia and opposed military support for Ukraine, calling it a continuation of a dangerous, out-of-touch policy that isolates Slovakia from the core of the EU and NATO and plays into the hands of Vladimir Putin’s regime. https://etasr.sk/article/22216346 Bratislava, 27 June (TASR) - Former foreign minister and opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) board member Ivan Korcok called on the government to engage in real diplomacy if it wants to advance its priorities in the EU’s proposal to halt Russian gas imports from January 2028, also urging it to stop blackmailing the EU, as he said such an approach leads nowhere. https://etasr.sk/article/22216289 Bratislava, 27 June (TASR) - Slovak President Peter Pellegrini congratulated all schoolchildren on receiving their end-of-year school reports on Friday, TASR learnt from his social media statement on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/22216205 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. am