SUMMARY - Monday, 5 January 2026 - 5 p.m.

Budapest, 5 January (TASR) - Ethnic Hungarians living in Slovakia can rely on the Hungarian government to support them in everything and to reject any form of collective guilt, stated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at an international press conference on Monday in response to a question about his stance on the amendment to the Slovak Penal Code that relates to the so-called Benes Decrees, the TASR correspondent in Budapest has reported. https://etasr.sk/article/22809955 Bratislava, 5 January (TASR) - MP for the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) Martin Smilnak, who was involved in a traffic accident in December and then tested positive for alcohol, will resign from his parliamentary seat, TASR has learnt from his video posted on social media on Monday. https://etasr.sk/article/22809971 Bratislava, 5 January (TASR) - Opposition Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) leader Milan Majersky in an end-of-year interview for TASR has said that he believes conservatives and progressives would be able to work together in a potential future government. https://etasr.sk/article/22809826 Bratislava, 5 January (TASR) - The Smer-SD party can imagine post-election cooperation even with the extra-parliamentary far-right Republic party, House Vice-chair Tibor Gaspar (Smer-SD) has said in an end-of-year interview for TASR, adding that it's an entity that needs to be spoken to. https://etasr.sk/article/22809736 Bratislava, 5 January (TASR) - It isn't true that President Peter Pellegrini isn't interfering in the Voice-SD party's decisions, Investment Minister Samuel Migal (Independent), who was expelled from the party, has posted on a social network. https://etasr.sk/article/22809784 Bratislava, 5 January (TASR) - The cyber infrastructure of the Interior Ministry is protected at a world-class level, Minister Matus Sutaj Estok (Voice-SD) has stated in an interview with TASR, guaranteeing that last year's cyber-attack on the Economy Ministry didn't result in the manipulation of data for the energy assistance system. https://etasr.sk/article/22809869 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