SUMMARY - Friday, 17 April 2026 - 9 p.m.

Bratislava, 17 April (TASR) - The European Commission's Comitology Committee has approved the sixth and seventh payments from the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia, totalling €1.2 billion, the Office of the Vice-Premier for the Recovery Plan and a Knowledge-based Economy announced on Friday following the committee's meeting. https://etasr.sk/article/23193832 Bratislava/Paris, 17 April (TASR) - Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) announced on Friday following the leaders' summit in Paris that he's offered Slovakia's capabilities in clearing mines from the coast of the Strait of Hormuz, should they be necessary, as well as expertise related to water management - all of this following the end of the military conflict in the region, TASR was told by the Government Office's press and information department on Friday. https://etasr.sk/article/23193893 Warsaw, 17 April (TASR-correspondent) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated on Friday that his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico (Smer-SD) behaves relatively loyally on European issues and, in his opinion, he won't pose a major problem for the functioning of the European Union following the defeat of Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban, TASR has learnt from its special correspondent in Warsaw. https://etasr.sk/article/23193703 Bratislava, 17 April (TASR) - The malfunction that prevented the government aircraft from continuing its flight from Vietnam on Thursday morning (16 April) after a scheduled stopover in Kazakhstan involved the starting system of one of the engines, TASR was told by spokesperson for the Interior Ministry Matej Neumann on Friday. https://etasr.sk/article/23193558 Bratislava, 17 April (TASR) - President Peter Pellegrini is due to welcome Fra' John Timothy Dunlap, Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta at the Presidential Palace during an official visit on Tuesday (21 April), TASR was told by the President's Office's communications department on Friday. https://etasr.sk/article/23193497 Bratislava, 17 April (TASR) - The civil society organisations Slatinka Association, Klima Fokus, and Via Iuris have filed a lawsuit with the administrative court regarding the Malinec-Latky pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant, with the reason being a violation of the public interest in environmental protection by the Environment Ministry and the government in approving the power plant as a major investment, TASR was told by Via Iuris on Friday. https://etasr.sk/article/23194004 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