SUMMARY - Tuesday, 18 November 2025 - 5 p.m.

Bratislava, 18 November (TASR) - The fulcrum of Tuesday's meeting between President Peter Pellegrini and ambassadors of EU countries stationed in Slovakia was the priorities of the Danish Council of the EU Presidency and the current challenges and prospects that Slovakia faces in European policy. https://etasr.sk/article/22671132 Bratislava, 18 November (TASR) - The opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) party has appealed to the European Commission (EC) regarding the law on public-service broadcaster Slovak Television and Radio (STVR), asking it to examine whether or not the legislation is in line with EU law, MP Zora Jaurova (PS) told a news conference on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22671194 Bratislava, 18 November (TASR) – Another failure in the research and development grant calls issued by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for the Recovery Plan and a Knowledge-based Economy, led by Peter Kmec (Voice-SD), was the evaluation process itself, said opposition MP Jan Hargas (Progressive Slovakia) at a press conference on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22671220 Bratislava, 18 November (TASR) – Another failure in the research and development grant calls issued by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for the Recovery Plan and a Knowledge-based Economy, led by Peter Kmec (Voice-SD), was the evaluation process itself, said opposition MP Jan Hargas (Progressive Slovakia) at a press conference on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22671275 Bratislava, 18 November (TASR) - The railway accident that took place near the village of Jablonov nad Turnou in Roznava district (Kosice region) in mid-October was caused by the driver of one of the trains, who ignored a red light and thus failed to respect the signals at the entrance to a tunnel. https://etasr.sk/article/22671435 Bratislava, 18 November (TASR) - Opposition MPs from the 'Slovakia'-'For the People' caucus are proposing a ban on the consumption of alcoholic beverages and smoking in gambling rooms and casinos in Slovakia, seeking to improve the protection of health by a proposal for amendments to the laws on the protection against the misuse of alcoholic beverages and on the protection of non-smokers, TASR reported on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22671483 Bratislava, 18 November (TASR) - The Prosecutor-General's (PG) Office said on Tuesday that it won't comment on statements and calls by politicians regarding open criminal cases that are at the stage of criminal proceedings. https://etasr.sk/article/22671526 Bratislava, 18 November (TASR) - Interior Minister and coalition Voice-SD leader Matus Sutaj Estok spoke at a press conference on Tuesday about censorship applied to certain views on social networks from 2022 to 2023, claiming that state and public institutions were misused by the governments at the time in order to manipulate public opinion, TASR reported on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/22671569 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