SUMMARY - Thursday, 26 March 2026 - 9 p.m.

Bratislava, 26 March (TASR) - Slovakia is a friend of Moldova and supports its path towards prosperity and stability within the European family, stated President Peter Pellegrini in Bratislava on Thursday during the opening of the first Slovak-Moldovan Business Forum, also attended by his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu. https://etasr.sk/article/23121735 Bratislava, 26 March (TASR) - Parliamentary Chair Richard Rasi received Moldovan President Maia Sandu at Bratislava Castle on Thursday, TASR has learnt from his post on social media. https://etasr.sk/article/23122254 Bratislava, 26 March (TASR) - The three-year contracts covering more than 30 cultural projects across Slovakia, which were the subject of a recent meeting of the Council of the Arts Support Fund (FPU), haven't been scrapped; they have "merely" been suspended and will undergo an audit, FPU Council chair Matus Olha and general secretary of the Culture Ministry's Service Office Lukas Machala told a press conference on Thursday, adding that if the review finds no irregularities, amendments to the contracts will be signed with the entities. https://etasr.sk/article/23122601 Bratislava, 26 March (TASR) – Independent MP Roman Malatinec plans to submit a proposal to amend the law on the Arts Support Fund (FPU), citing long-standing concerns about its functioning, which he says fails to meet the expectations of the cultural community. https://etasr.sk/article/23121746 Budapest, 26 March (TASR) - The European Commission's (EC) proposals for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2027 would mean a reduction in agricultural funding, create competition between agriculture and other policies, and threaten the stability of farmers' incomes, agriculture ministers from the Visegrad Four (V4) countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia) plus Bulgaria and Romania concurred in Budapest on Thursday, adding that this is not modernisation, but a step backward that could weaken European agriculture, TASR was told by the Slovak Agriculture Ministry. https://etasr.sk/article/23122441 Bratislava, 26 March (TASR) - Environment Minister Tomas Taraba (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) plans to drill on people's private land in connection with the Malinec-Latky pumped-storage hydro-power plant without informing them first, vice-chair of the House committee on agriculture and the environment Tamara Stohlova (PS) stated on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/23122123 Bratislava, 26 March (TASR) - Defence Minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) should resign from his post for failing to adequately protect military facilities and compounds, the opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) party stated on Thursday, citing reports that young YouTubers infiltrated a state-owned arms factory in the town of Dubnica nad Vahom in Trencin region for several hours. https://etasr.sk/article/23121904 Trnava, 26 March (TASR) – Police are investigating a night-time fire in the village of Zvoncin near Trnava, suspecting arson and not ruling out a possible reclassification of the case once all the facts are established, the Trnava regional police said. https://etasr.sk/article/23121842 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