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Bratislava/Zagreb, 1 July (TASR-correspondent) – In recent years, foreign trade between Slovakia and Croatia has exceeded the one-billion-euro mark, but there is still room to intensify business relations, President Peter Pellegrini said on Tuesday during the opening of the Slovak-Croatian Business Forum, attended by Croatian President Zoran Milanovic, TASR’s special correspondent reported on the same day. Zagreb/Bratislava, 1 July (TASR) – President Peter Pellegrini was accompanied by Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok during his official visit to Croatia on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22227924 Brussels/Bratislava, 1 July (TASR) - A delegation of experts from the European Commission's high-level task force, established in cooperation with Bratislava earlier this year, will visit Slovakia, the European Commission confirmed to TASR on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22227739 Bratislava, July 1 (TASR) - The state budget reached a cash deficit of €3.117 billion at the end of June this year, meaning that the state's economic activities improved by €895 million or 22.3 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) in the first half of the year, the Finance Ministry reported on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22227558 Bratislava, July 1 (TASR) - The Finance Ministry is to launch the pilot phase of the project of the state food price comparator on Tuesday after 5 p.m. https://etasr.sk/article/22227513 Bratislava, 1 July (TASR) - Former mayor of Bratislava's borough of Petrzalka Jan Hrcka will run for the post in this year's by-election, TASR learnt at his press conference on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22227462 Bratislava, 1 July (TASR) - Slovakia will be represented in China by a new ambassador, Milan Lajciak, who also has accreditation for Mongolia, the Foreign Ministry's communications department told TASR on Tuesday, adding that he'll return for the third time to the Slovak embassy in Beijing, which he founded in 1993. https://etasr.sk/article/22227352 Bratislava, 1 July (TASR) - The National Highway Company (NDS) has completed the public procurement for the construction of the D3 motorway section Kysucke Nove Mesto-Oscadnica in Zilina region, Transport Minister Jozef Raz (a Smer-SD nominee) posted on a social network on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22227297 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