SUMMARY - Friday, February 14, 2025 - 9 p.m.

Vatican City, February 14 (TASR) - Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) visited the Vatican on Friday, where he was received by Pope Francis, the Government Office's press department told TASR on Friday, adding that the meeting was mainly dominated by the issue of peace in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. https://etasr.sk/article/21742464 Munich, February 14 (TASR-correspondent) - On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, President Peter Pellegrini met on Friday with European Council President Antonio Costa to also discuss energy and the EU's possible role in negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. https://etasr.sk/article/21742773 Kosice, February 14 (TASR) - The monthly salary of employees of U.S. Steel Kosice will increase by €50 on average as of March 1, according to a new appendix to a collective agreement signed between trade union and employer representatives on Friday, head of the OZ KOVO trade union at U.S Steel Kosice Juraj Varga and company spokesman Jan Baca confirmed for TASR on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/21742407 Bratislava, February 14 (TASR) - The Slovak economy will grow at a rate of 1.9 percent this year despite the stagnation of the German economy, according to the latest macroeconomic forecast of the Financial Policy Institute (IFP), published by the Finance Ministry on Friday. https://etasr.sk/article/21742613 Bratislava, February 14 (TASR) - If a general election had been held in late January, it would have been won by the opposition Progressive Slovakia (PS) on 24.6 percent of votes, followed by the senior governing Smer-SD (22.7 percent) and junior ruling Voice-SD (13.7 percent) parties, according to a recent poll carried out by the Social Research Centre, which is part of the Statistics Office's subsidiary Infostat. https://etasr.sk/article/21742352 Bratislava, February 14 (TASR) - Slovakia is going to experience a significant cooling in the next few days, and the coldest period of this winter can be expected, the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMU) posted on a social network on Friday, explaining the change in the weather by the flow of cold, originally arctic air from the north. https://etasr.sk/article/21742675 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