SUMMARY - Friday, 19 December 2025 - 1 p.m.

Bratislava, 19 December (TASR) - A paper focusing on a quantitative analysis of residual DNA in selected batches of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19, prepared by researchers from the Biomedical Research Centre (BMC) of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) and the Science Park of the Comenius University, has been published in the international scientific journal npj Vaccines, TASR was told by head of SAV's communications department Katarina Galikova on Friday. https://etasr.sk/article/22768804 Bratislava, 19 December (TASR) - The coalition Voice-SD party welcomes the conclusions of the European Union summit in Brussels, as the EU is acting sensibly in deciding not to proceed at present with the use of frozen Russian assets, Voice-SD chair Matus Sutaj Estok declared on Friday. https://etasr.sk/article/22768766 Luzianky, 19 December (TASR) - Unknown substances marked as highly explosive picric acid have been found at the premises of the food research institute on Vinarska Street in the village of Luzianky (Nitra region), TASR reported on Friday based on information published by the Nitra Region Police Directorate on social media. https://etasr.sk/article/22768715 Bratislava, 19 December (TASR) - The shareholders of the largest electricity producer in Slovakia, Slovenske elektrarne (SE), decided to pay dividends at their general meeting held on Tuesday (16 December), thus contributing a significant amount of some €170 million to the state treasury at the end of the year, TASR learned from SE spokesperson Lenka Sarlakova on Friday. https://etasr.sk/article/22768604 Bratislava, 19 December (TASR) - If MPs behaved as they should, nobody would feel the need for a code of ethics in Parliament, but under the current circumstances, it's no surprise that over 90 percent of respondents in a recent opinion poll were in favour of this idea, House Chair Richard Rasi (Voice-SD) declared in an interview with TASR TV. https://etasr.sk/article/22768480 Bratislava/Munich, 19 December (TASR) - Environment Minister Tomas Taraba (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) discussed support for the survival and competitiveness of the automotive industry in Slovakia and the EU during a meeting with representatives of German carmaker BMW in Munich, TASR has learnt from the Environment Ministry's press department. https://etasr.sk/article/22768358 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. jrg