SUMMARY - Thursday, 17 September 2026 - 10 p.m.

Bratislava, 17 September (TASR) - House Chair Richard Rasi (Voice-SD) will meet President of the National Council of Austria Walter Rosenkranz and Speaker of the Czech Chamber of Deputies Tomio Okamura in the Austrian region of Wachau during a meeting held under the Austerlitz Format (S3: Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia), TASR learnt from the Parliament Office's communications department on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/23722389 Warsaw, 17 September (TASR-correspondent) - Igor Mauks is expected to become Slovakia's new ambassador to Poland, with current Ambassador Andrea Elschekova Matisova saying farewell to the diplomatic corps in Warsaw and her Polish colleagues at a reception on Wednesday (16 September) marking Constitution Day and Slovak Armed Forces Day, TASR learnt from its correspondent in Warsaw on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/23722559 Sabinov, 17 September (TASR) - The decision whether a water reservoir is to be built near the village of Tichy Potok (Presov region) will be made by experts, Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) told a press conference in Tichy Potok on Thursday, adding that the parameters and feasibility of the planned project need to be assessed first. https://etasr.sk/article/23722591 Bratislava, 17 September (TASR) - Culture Minister Martina Simkovicova (a Slovak National Party/SNS nominee) on Thursday said that this week's discussion on the functioning of the Arts Support Fund (FPU) was opened at her initiative, and that she could not attend it because she had another important meeting. https://etasr.sk/article/23722638 Bratislava, 17 September (TASR) - President Peter Pellegrini on Thursday renewed, by letter, his invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit Slovakia, as the country will next year mark the centenary of the proclamation of Our Lady of Sorrows as the patroness of the Slovak nation, the head of state announced on social media on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/23722678 Bratislava/Vienna, 17 September (TASR) - Slovakia was elected as a member of the IAEA Board of Governors for the 2026–2028 term at the current session of the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna on Thursday, returning to one of the agency's main decision-making bodies after 11 years, TASR learnt from the Foreign and European Affairs Ministry on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/23722939 Bratislava, 17 September (TASR) - New flats in Slovakia continue to decline in number and remain increasingly unaffordable, making it virtually impossible for young people to acquire their own housing, representatives of the opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) party told a press conference held in Parliament on Thursday, adding that solutions to this situation exist at both Slovak and European level. https://etasr.sk/article/23723018 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. jrg