SUMMARY - Thursday, 5 February 2026 - 1.15 p.m.

Bratislava, 5 February (TASR) - Retail revenues in Slovakia fell by 5 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) in December, marking the worst monthly result of 2025 as six of the nine retail segments saw a y-o-y drop, the Statistics Office reported on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/22914051 Bratislava, 5 February (TASR) - MPs have prematurely ended the debate on opposition motions to dismiss several ministers and on the vote of no-confidence in the government, following a proposal to this effect by House Chair Richard Rasi (Voice-SD), TASR reported on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/22914250 Bratislava, 5 February (TASR) - Two candidates are running for the post of Supreme Administrative Court (NSS) chair, with Katarina Benczova having been nominated by five NSS judges and Petra Pribelska by 14 NSS judges, as well as by judges' councils at the administrative courts in Bratislava, Banska Bystrica and Kosice, TASR reported on Thursday based on information published by the Judicial Council's Office on its website. https://etasr.sk/article/22914429 Singapore, 5 February (TASR-correspondent) – As part of his current working visit to South-East Asia, Slovak Foreign Affairs Minister Juraj Blanar (Smer-SD) met Singapore's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Industry Gan Siow Huang and opened a meeting of Slovak and Singaporean entrepreneurs in Singapore on Thursday, a special TASR correspondent reported on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/22914596 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