SUMMARY - Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 9 p.m.

Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) - Parliament rejected on Tuesday a resolution, submitted by opposition's KDH MPs Frantisek Miklosko and Marian Caucik, to condemn the imprisonment of Nagorno Karabakh political functionaries. https://etasr.sk/article/21514639 Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) - Parliament turned down on Tuesday a proposal, sponsored by opposition's PS, to introduce two days off work for women who suffered miscarriage or a stillbirth. https://etasr.sk/article/21514612 Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) - Cuts introduced to the tax bonuses on children by the Income Tax Act will help neither Slovakia's demography nor families, as the approved consolidation measures are set to slash the bonus for families with multiple children to zero, opposition lawmakers representing the coalition of 'Slovakia'-For the People-KU declared in response to the passing of 2025 state budget in Parliament on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/21514581 Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) - President Peter Pellegrini will travel to Latvia for a single-day visit on Wednesday (December 4) and meet Slovak soldiers serving at a military base in Adazi as part of NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence mission, TASR learnt from the President's Office press department on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/21514336 Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) - The number of employed people in the third quarter of the year increased by 0.3 percent year-on-year to 2.617 million, the Statistics Office reported on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/21514233 Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) - Unemployment in Slovakia stands at an all-time low, but still above the Visegrad Four-level (V4: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) and twice as much as it is in the Czech Republic and Poland, stated the Finance Ministry's Financial Policy Institute (IFP) on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/21514214 Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) - The Health Ministry is still negotiating with the medical trade union (LOZ), stating that it aims to reach an agreement, while refusing to say whether it's planning to introduce a state of emergency due to doctors' resignations, TASR has learnt from the ministry's communications department. https://etasr.sk/article/21514175 Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) - The opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party is warning that the government might declare a state of emergency due to the situation regarding doctors' resignation notices, TASR learnt at a press conference held by SaS MPs on Tuesday. https://etasr.sk/article/21514161 Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) - The governing coalition has approved a budget of high prices, chaos and the past, the opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) party stated on Tuesday in response to the approval of the state budget in Parliament, adding that it's understandable that practically the whole of society, from trade unionists, teachers, health-care workers to police officers and people from culture protested against such a budget. https://etasr.sk/article/21514048 Bratislava, December 3 (TASR) - Ondrej Mularcik, the lawyer defending Slovak central bank (NBS) governor Peter K. [name abbreviated due to legal reasons], who is facing prosecution for bribery, maintains that Specialised Criminal Court judge Milan Cisarik should have ended the trial when the Supreme Court reached its decision on new statutes of limitation. https://etasr.sk/article/21514046 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