Slovakia

Projects to combat disinformation and strengthen media education will not be financed: Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová decided to use EU funds of €300.000 to repair the roof of the Slovak Philharmonic and support libraries

Pensioners will receive a one-off bonus of €300, instead of the initially promised €150, by the end of the year, thanks to the additional €220 million found in the budget after talks with Finance Minister Ladislav Kamenicky

Among potential candidates, Voice-SD president Peter Pellegrini has the best chance of winning next year's presidential election, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Ipsos agency

1,5 million euros will be allocated to help villages and various entities after the recent earthquake in eastern Slovakia, which the cabinet noted was the strongest in Slovakia since 1930

US Steel Košice, subsidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, will receive €300 million from the EU Recovery and Resilience Plan to decarbonise its steel production; the company stressed that the whole process is expected to exceed €1 billion

The Slovak Water Management Company will strengthen its financing with an additional €25 million

The orientation of Slovakia's foreign policy will not change, said Smer-SD President Robert Fico

Freedom and Solidarity called on parties running for election that are below the eligibility threshold to withdraw from the fight, pointing out that a large number of democratic votes, crucial for the formation of a government, would be lost

Slovakia's projected battery production capacity will reach 10 GWh by 2030, which is lower than that of its Visegrad counterparts and beats only Croatia's 2 GWh in the Central European region

Martin Bednárik uses a magnet to turn a square celebrating killers into a square commemorating their victims: though a slight addition, it completely changes the name of Námestie Hraničiarov square in Bratislava

After 51 years of construction, the Bratislava-Košice motorway is still unfinished and the last section will be completed in 2032, if all goes well