SUMMARY - Wednesday, 11 February 2026 - 5 p.m.

Kosice, 11 February (TASR) - The Constitutional Court has suspended the effect of an amendment to the Penal Code that was aimed at making evidence obtained from a cooperating defendant inadmissible. https://etasr.sk/article/22945302 Bratislava, 11 February (TASR) - According to their flight logs, eight MiG-29 fighters were operational in 2022, Defence Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) declared at a press conference on Wednesday, rejecting claims that the aircraft donated to Ukraine were "scrap" or "old wrecks". https://etasr.sk/article/22945313 Bratislava, 11 February (TASR) - It's a clear success that amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code have been suspended by the Constitutional Court and that the remainder of the motion has been accepted for further proceedings, the opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) party stated on social media on Wednesday in response to the court's decision concerning cooperating defendants. https://etasr.sk/article/22945479 Bratislava, 11 February (TASR) - Head of the opposition 'Slovakia' party Igor Matovic has once again helped Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD), opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) party leader Michal Simecka declared on Wednesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22945478 Kosice, 11 February (TASR) – A police investigator has charged one specific person with the misdemeanour of bodily harm in conjunction with the misdemeanour of disorderly conduct in the case of the assault on SME daily newspaper commentator Peter Schutz in Kosice on 10 January. https://etasr.sk/article/22945272 Bratislava, 11 February (TASR) - Education Minister Tomas Drucker (Voice-SD) said that no substantial new information was presented by Government Proxy for Investigating COVID-19 Pandemic Management Peter Kotlar at Wednesday's cabinet meeting. https://etasr.sk/article/22944957 Bratislava, 11 February (TASR) - The absorption of funds from the Rural Development Programme (RDP) reached 99.25 percent by the end of 2025, with €647 million drawn in 2025 alone, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Richard Takac (Smer-SD) told a press conference on Wednesday, with Agricultural Payment Agency (PPA) head Marek Cepko also in attendance. https://etasr.sk/article/22945314 Bratislava, 11 February (TASR) - The consequences of fiscal consolidation are being felt mainly by ordinary people, opposition KDH party chair Milan Majersky warned at a press conference on Wednesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22944951 Bratislava, 11 February (TASR) - The government on Wednesday approved the preparatory work on the Malinec-Latky pumped-storage hydro-electric power plant project as a significant investment even though conditions for such a step set by law haven't been met, said parliamentary agriculture and environment committee vice-chair Tamara Stohlova (Progressive Slovakia/PS) on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/22944925 Bratislava, 11 February (TASR) - Claims by the Slovak Government Proxy for Investigating Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic Peter K. [name abbreviated due to legal reasons] are misleading, according to an expert opinion by the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, which, on the contrary, described an analysis by the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) as methodologically sound and in line with the global scientific consensus, opposition MP Tomas Szalay (SaS) reported at a press conference on Wednesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22944501 Bratislava, 11 February (TASR) - The project to build the Malinec-Latky pumped-storage hydro-electric power plant will become a significant investment, according to a decision made by the cabinet at its session on Wednesday. https://etasr.sk/article/22944687 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