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

MPs for Smer-SD are likely to support overturning President Peter Pellegrini's veto on the amendment to the Gambling Act, Premier Robert Fico (Smer-SD) stated on STVR's politics programme 'Sobotne dialogy' (Saturday Dialogues), however, he believes that it will be difficult to override the veto. https://etasr.sk/article/22639379 Bratislava, 8 November (TASR) – Thirty-three years ago, one of the most important figures in Slovak history, Alexander Dubcek, tragically passed away, President Peter Pellegrini posted on a social network on the occasion of Friday's (7 November) anniversary of Dubcek's death, adding that he was a modest man, a social democratic politician who never gave up his values during the harshest political persecution. https://etasr.sk/article/22639286 Bratislava, 8 November (TASR) – The capitals of Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Bratislava and Prague, have been connected by a motorway for 45 years as Saturday marks the 45th anniversary of the opening of the last sections of the 317-kilometer-long motorway (8 November 1980), TASR has learnt from the website of the Czech Association Bratislava cesi.sk. https://etasr.sk/article/22639539 Bratislava, 8 November (TASR) - Passenger satisfaction with services provided by state-run passenger carrier ZSSK is growing, with the overall satisfaction index reaching 65.3 points in the third quarter of 2025, down by only 0.3 points quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q), according to a survey conducted by Go4insight agency for ZSSK between July-September 2025 on a sample of 1,000 respondents aged 16+, ZSSK reported earlier this week. https://etasr.sk/article/22639222 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