SUMMARY - Thursday, 26 February 2026 - 10 p.m.

Bratislava, 26 February (TASR) - Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) will hold a telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, to discuss oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline, the Government Office's press department confirmed to TASR on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/23019738 Bratislava, 26 February (TASR) - The opposition's Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) disagrees with the European Commission's (EC) intention to allow member states to voluntarily participate in financing so-called abortion tourism from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) in the current and upcoming budget periods, TASR learnt from the party's press department on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/23019720 Prague/Bratislava, 26 February (TASR) – Czech biochemist Zdenek Hel, a professor of immunology at the University of Alabama, has filed a criminal complaint against Slovak Government Proxy for Investigating COVID-19 Pandemic Management Peter Kotlar over statements Kotlar made in the Czech Parliament, suspecting Kotlar of spreading a fear-mongering alarmist message, TASR's special correspondent in Prague reported on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/23019706 Bratislava, 26 February (TASR) - Thursday's talks with Czech Justice Minister Jeronym Tejc confirmed the closeness of ties between Slovakia and the Czech Republic, Slovak Justice Minister Boris Susko (Smer-SD) declared at a joint press conference on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/23019505 Budapest/Bratislava, 26 February (TASR-correspondent) – The potential of the Visegrad Group (V4: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) must be used so that its members contribute to Europe's competitiveness, the heads of the parliaments of the V4 countries agreed at their meeting in Budapest on Thursday, TASR's special correspondent reported on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/23019332 Presov/Bratislava, 26 February (TASR) - The city of Presov will declare a state of emergency on Friday (27 February) in the Presov I - Solivary mining area, due to land subsidence caused by historical salt mining, TASR learnt on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/23018982 Bratislava, 26 February (TASR) - Seismologists recorded a total of 32 aftershocks following the earthquake that struck western Slovakia on Saturday (21 February), seismologists from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics at Comenius University in Bratislava and the Institute of Earth Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) reported at a press conference on Thursday, adding that the two largest aftershocks had a magnitude of 2.8. https://etasr.sk/article/23018871 Bratislava, 26 February (TASR) - An aircraft acquired via a luxury-aircraft purchase to calibrate airport systems worth €13.5 million for the state-owned Air Traffic Services (LPS) enterprise still hasn't flown a single hour to this day, stated MP Roman Mikulec ('Slovakia') on Thursday, adding that LPS falls under the Transport Ministry. https://etasr.sk/article/23018851 Hlohovec, 26 February (TASR) - Agel Hlohovec Hospital in Trnava region will discontinue its outpatient emergency service for adults as of 1 March, with the step being taken due to insufficient staffing for these services, Agel SK communications manager Jarmila Sevcikova told TASR on Thursday, adding that if necessary, patients will be able to use outpatient emergency services in nearby towns, including Trnava, Nitra and Piestany. https://etasr.sk/article/23018795 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. mf