SUMMARY - Tuesday, 2 December 2025 - 1 p.m.

Bratislava, 2 December (TASR) - Parliament failed to open a special session with a no-confidence motion in Transport Minister Jozef Raz (a Smer-SD nominee) as the sole point on the agenda at the third attempt, as only 56 lawmakers presented themselves on Tuesday morning, which was not enough for the House to be quorate. https://etasr.sk/article/22714943 Bratislava, 2 December (TASR) - The last (fourth) try to open a special session with a no-confidence motion in Transport Minister Jozef Raz (a Smer-SD nominee) as the sole point on the agenda failed on Tuesday, as only 62 MPs presented themselves, which was not enough for the House to be quorate. https://etasr.sk/article/22715066 Bratislava, 2 December (TASR) - The number of unemployed people in Slovakia amounted to 152,300 in the third quarter of this year, the Statistics Office reported on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22715119 Bratislava, 2 December (TASR) - After Parliament failed to open a special session on Transport Minister Jozef Raz's (a Smer-SD nominee) ouster on Tuesday morning, Parliament continued its regular session with a proposal to remove Jan Ferencak (Voice-SD) from the post of chair of the parliamentary committee for European affairs, which was submitted by Voice-SD MPs. https://etasr.sk/article/22715163 Bratislava, 2 December (TASR) - The ongoing audit of innovation calls at the Office of the Vice-Premier for the Recovery Plan and the Knowledge-based Economy hasn't yet identified any serious shortcomings that would necessitate scrapping the entire subsidy call, Education Minister Tomas Drucker (Voice-SD), who has been tasked with managing the office, told a news conference on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22715192 Bratislava, 2 December (TASR) - President Peter Pellegrini is due to attend a summit of the V4 (Visegrad Four: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) heads of state at the St. Adalbert Centre in Esztergom, Hungary on Wednesday (3 December), the President's Office has told TASR, adding that the meeting is being organised by Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok as part of Hungary's current presidency of the Visegrad Four. https://etasr.sk/article/22715329 Bratislava, 2 December (TASR) - The average nominal monthly salary in Slovakia amounted to €1,569 in the third quarter of 2025, up by 5.7 percent year-on-year (y-o-y), the Statistics Office reported on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22715363 Bratislava, 2 December (TASR) - The visit by the Czech Republic's Chamber of Deputies Speaker Tomio Okamura to Slovakia serves as a restart of Czech-Slovak relations, said Slovak House Chair Richard Rasi (Voice-SD) following his meeting with Okamura at Bratislava Castle on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22715405 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