SUMMARY - Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 10 p.m.

Nitra/Bratislava, October 17 (TASR) - Dysfunctional registration system employed by the foreigners' police makes life difficult for the people and hinders their future, President Peter Pellegrini declared during his working visit to Nitra on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/21354790 Bratislava, October 17 (TASR) - The 2025 public administration budget, approved on Tuesday (October 15) by the Government, will foist the burden of consolidation upon the shoulders of the people, local and regional authorities, businesses, employers and employees, who will all face steeply increased costs of living, but the Government plans to introduce only minimal austerity cuts to itself, MP Jozef Hajko (KDH) declared on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/21354740 Presov, October 17 (TASR) - A person has gotten buried under soil during construction work in the Zaborske industrial park near Presov, with first-responders summoned to help, TASR learnt from the Presov Firefighter and Emergency Corps Regional Directorate on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/21354682 Bratislava, October 17 (TASR) - The European Court of Human Rights turned down the complaint lodged by Penta financial group co-owner Jaroslav Hascak on September 24 as inadmissible, seeing as the financier hasn't used all domestic options of appeal yet, TASR learnt from Justice Ministry spokesperson Miriama Gasparikova on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/21354669 Bratislava, October 17 (TASR) - Opposition's Progressive Slovakia (PS) intends to promote the introduction of a contribution to cover housing costs that wouldn't be tied to welfare and called on Labour Minister Erik Tomas (Voice-SD) to embrace the idea, seeing as the bill to that effect submitted by PS in September was turned down by Parliament, MP Beata Jurik (PS) said at a press conference on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/21354481 Bratislava, October 17 (TASR) - The coalition is attempting quite pathetically to wiggle out of the slip of tongue by Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok's (Voice-SD), who let out that Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) has instructed the secret service (SIS) to draft a report on the May 15 assassination attempt on Fico's life and neither the opposition in general nor I in particular have ever asked for such a report, opposition's Progressive Slovakia (PS) caucus chair Martin Dubeci declared on Thursday. https://etasr.sk/article/21354230 Bratislava, October 17 (TASR) - The 'Slovakia' party has criticised the fact that the government is going to "rob" health workers through the consolidation package, while the Defence Ministry is going to invest an additional €700 million in armaments. The party believes that people would prefer the state investing this money in health workers, party spokesman Matus Bystriansky has informed TASR. https://etasr.sk/article/21354196 Bratislava, October 17 (TASR) - President Peter Pellegrini will announce his decision as to whether or not he signs the consolidation package on Friday (October 18) morning. Before that, he will meet with Health Minister Kamil Sasko (Voice-SD) and decide based on what the minister can offer to health workers. https://etasr.sk/article/21354126 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