SUMMARY - Thursday, 23 July 2026 - 9 p.m.

Bratislava, 23 July (TASR) - The City of Bratislava has lodged an appeal against the decision of the Environment Ministry concerning an environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the waste-to-energy centre project proposed by the Slovnaft refinery, Bratislava's spokesman Peter Bubla told TASR on Thursday, adding that according to the city, the ministry has failed, for example, to address all the comments raised. https://etasr.sk/article/23534358 Bratislava, 23 July (TASR) - The Administrative Court in Bratislava on Thursday overturned the Interior Ministry's decision to dismiss former first vice-president of the Police Corps Branko Kiss and referred the case back to the ministry for further proceedings, Kiss's lawyer Peter Kubina has posted on social media. https://etasr.sk/article/23534098 Banska Bystrica, 23 July (TASR) - The trial in the 'Purgatory' case, which concerns allegations of the alleged formation and operation of a criminal group within the highest echelons of the police and security services between 2012-2018, continued at the Specialised Criminal Court (STS) in Banska Bystrica on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/23534019 Bratislava, 23 July (TASR) - The opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) party disagrees with the Slovak Intelligence Service (SIS) regarding the extent to which information is provided to the public and to the special House committee for supervising SIS activities, claiming that SIS will publish annual reports on its activities in a new format, a move that it has criticised, MP and committee member Zuzana Stevulova (PS) and PS member Peter Bator told a press briefing on Thursday following the conclusion of an inspection at SIS. https://etasr.sk/article/23534364 Bratislava, 23 July (TASR) - The opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party has highlighted a serious failure on the part of the state to monitor overloaded lorries and is calling on the government to publish all the documentation relating to a planned €105-million project, SaS vice-chair Marian Viskupic and Peter Bathory, who is responsible for transport within SaS, stated at a press briefing on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/23534189 Komarno, 23 July (TASR) - The Hungarian Alliance's nominee, the party's current vice-chairman Tibor Csenger, will also be standing for the post of Nitra self-governing region governor in the October elections, TASR has learnt at a press briefing in the town of Komarno (Nitra region) on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/23534379 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