SUMMARY - Tuesday, 19 May 2026 - 9.30 p.m.

Bratislava, 19 May (TASR) - Veronika Remisova, chair of the opposition party For the People, lambasts a promotion campaign worth nearly €300,000 commissioned by Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization (MIRRI). The campaign is intended to promote digital communication projects with the state financed through EU funds, which, according to For the People, were never implemented. https://etasr.sk/article/23306834 Bratislava/Vienna, 19 May (TASR) - The aim of Prime Minister Robert Fico's (Smer-SD) visit to Vienna on Tuesday was to gain insight into Austria's rental housing system and explore ideas for the development of rental housing in Slovakia, TASR learnt from the Government Office on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/23306762 Bratislava, 19 May (TASR) - Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) on Tuesday received Li Hongzhong, first vice-chair of the Chinese Parliament, at the Slovak Government Office in Bratislava, to discuss bilateral Slovak-Chinese relations and possibilies for their further development, TASR learnt from the Slovak Government Office on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/23306745 Bratislava, 19 May (TASR) - The Slovak National Party (SNS) has called on its coalition partners Smer-SD and Voice-SD to reconsider their position presented at Tuesday's session of the parliamentary finance committee, where they refused to support a proposal to increase pensions for seniors over 90 years old. https://etasr.sk/article/23306518 Bratislava, 19 May (TASR) - House vice-chair Tibor Gaspar (Smer-SD) warned on Tuesday that another politically motivated assassination attempt could occur in Slovakia because of the tense political situation. https://etasr.sk/article/23305899 Bratislava, 19 May (TASR - Albanian President Bajram Begaj arrived for an official visit to Slovakia on Tuesday, the President's Office's communications department has informed TASR. https://etasr.sk/article/23305880 Bratislava, 19 May (TASR) - The anti-corruption unit of the Police Corps' Office for Combating Organised Crime (UBOK) has been conducting an operation codenamed Venator (Hunter) at multiple locations across Slovakia since early on Tuesday morning, Police Corps Presidium spokesperson Lea Vilhanova has informed TASR. https://etasr.sk/article/23305702 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