SUMMARY - Saturday, 9 August 2025 - 9 p.m.

Bratislava, 9 August (TASR) - The coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) welcomes the fact that Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) has joined the call for scrapping the ambulance service tender, however, it considers the cancellation of the tender to be an insufficient solution to the problem and wants to bring its own proposal to the rescue system, TASR was told by party's spokeswoman Zuzana Skopcova on Saturday. https://etasr.sk/article/22340839 Bratislava, 9 August (TASR) - The coalition Voice-SD party is willing to discuss the proposal of the Slovak National Party (SNS) to make the entire rescue system state-owned and under the control of the state, however, it doesn't consider any of them to be the only correct one, the Voice-SD press department told TASR on Saturday, adding that no one will discuss them from a position of strength. https://etasr.sk/article/22340969 Bratislava, 9 August (TASR) - The Environment Ministry is going to mount Slovak flags on strategic water works in the coming months, Minister Tomas Taraba (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) posted on a social network on Saturday, adding that the dams will include Liptovska Mara, Orava, Cunovo, Gabcikovo, Nimnica and others, which are also tourist destinations and are managed by the state. https://etasr.sk/article/22341015 Bratislava, 9 August (TASR) - It will continue to be very warm on Sunday (10 August), the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMU) posted on a social network on Saturday, adding that they expect the temperature to reach 30 to 36 degrees Celsius. https://etasr.sk/article/22340855 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