SUMMARY - Monday, April 14, 2025 - 9 p.m.

Martin/Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - Ecco Slovakia will cease production at its facility in Martin this summer, with the shutdown set to affect 650 employees, TASR learnt from Matej Kovac of Grayling Slovakia on Monday. https://etasr.sk/article/21951436 Luxembourg/ Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - The EU Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg condemned on Monday the Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, which claimed at least 34 lives and injured more than 100, Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Juraj Blanar (Smer-SD) stated on the same day. https://etasr.sk/article/21951433 Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - The Institute of Informatics and Statistics (Infostat) denies any notion that the results of political surveys are available to anyone other than the institution itself, as neither the Statistics Office, which is Infostat’s founding body, nor any political party has access to them, head of Infostat’s Center for Social Research (CSV) Mario Dobrovodsky declared at a press conference on Monday. https://etasr.sk/article/21951431 Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - The opposition's Progressive Slovakia (PS) party wants to initiate an MP probe in the Statistics Office, as PS leader Michal Simecka believes that the authority —specifically Infostat — might be acting as a "PR agency" for the Smer-SD party by conducting surveys on topics that interest Smer-SD politicians, and doing so with public funds. https://etasr.sk/article/21951409 Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - As of Monday noon, the elimination of existing outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, including the Dolny Stal farm, has been completed and no new outbreak has been detected thus far, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Richard Takac (Smer-SD) announced at a press briefing in the company of representatives from the Interior Ministry, Defence Ministry and the country's security and rescue forces. https://etasr.sk/article/21951366 Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - The coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) will submit a proposal to the May session of Parliament to abolish the transaction tax for sole traders and small entrepreneurs with an annual turnover of up to €100,000, SNS chair Andrej Danko announced in a video on social media on Monday. https://etasr.sk/article/21951195 Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - Juraj Kralik will become the new Director General of the Slovak National Gallery (SNG) starting Tuesday (April 15), TASR learnt from Petra Bacinska of the Culture Ministry's press department on Monday. https://etasr.sk/article/21951114 Kosice/Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - I condemn any and all killing, stated Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) on Monday in response to Russia's missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday. https://etasr.sk/article/21950977 Kosice/Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - The city of Kosice has presented four locations where the first 720 state-supported rental apartments are expected to be built, on Jesenskeho, Thurzova, Clementisova, and Popradska Streets, with Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) reiterating after his working meeting on Monday that the municipality is well prepared for the project. https://etasr.sk/article/21950937 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