SUMMARY - Thursday, 29 January 2026 - 5 p.m.

Bratislava, 29 January (TASR) - The Health Ministry presented the medical plan for the new national hospital in the Bratislava borough of Vajnory at the parliamentary health committee meeting on Thursday, anticipating that the health-care facility will provide 1,532 beds when at maximum capacity. https://etasr.sk/article/22892863 Bratislava, 29 January (TASR) - The Netherlands has donated two secure vans to Slovakia, specially adapted for transporting people requiring special treatment, the Health Ministry's communications department told TASR on Thursday, adding that these include, for example, psychiatric patients or people placed in detention facilities. https://etasr.sk/article/22892810 Bratislava, 29 January (TASR) - The Slovak pavilion at the Expo 2025 world exhibition in Osaka was another example of government corruption, says the Progressive Slovakia (PS) party, which intends to convene a special emergency session of the House committee for education, science, youth, sport and tourism, as well as to carry out a parliamentary inquiry at state agency Slovakia Travel. https://etasr.sk/article/22892789 Bratislava, 29 January (TASR) - The Slovakiatour and Danubius Gastro ITF international tourism and gastronomy fairs opened their doors in Bratislava's Incheba exposition hall on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/22892679 Warsaw, 29 January (TASR-correspondent) - Polish Education Minister Barbara Nowacka is scheduled to meet her Slovak counterpart Tomas Drucker in Nicosia, Cyprus on Friday (30 January), for bilateral talks as part of an informal EU Council summit, TASR's correspondent in Warsaw was told by the Polish Education Ministry on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/22892678 Bratislava, 29 January (TASR) - Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) on Thursday criticised EU Commissioner for Energy Dan Jorgensen after the latter expressed concerns about the EU's dependence on imports of natural gas from the USA, stressing that it was the European Commission itself, of which Jorgensen is a member, that pushed through the RePowerEU plan banning imports of Russian gas as of November of next year, thus causing the EU's dependence. https://etasr.sk/article/22892660 Trencin, 29 January (TASR) - More than €700,000 has been raised in less than a week in Slovakia to purchase generators as part of the 'Heat for Ukraine' fundraiser. https://etasr.sk/article/22892587 Bratislava, 29 January (TASR) - The opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party has described the disciplinary proceedings initiated by Slovak President Peter Pellegrini against Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) head Pavol Gaspar as a formal gesture aimed at hiding the gist of the problem, as the president shouldn't focus only on traffic offences but on other suspicions as well, TASR was told by Michal Goffa from the SaS communications department on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/22892522 Bratislava, 29 January (TASR) - Under the current government, Slovakia risks failing to draw at least €1.3 billion under the Recovery and Resilience Plan, as only a minimum number of milestones from the last two payment requests have been met, opposition MPs Veronika Remisova and Michal Sipos ('Slovakia'-'For the People' caucus) told a press conference in Parliament on Wednesday, adding that the government is dealing with "nonsense" instead. https://etasr.sk/article/22892424 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