Slovak police arrested about 20 young men suspected to promote and propagandize the radical groups oriented to oppression of basic human rights. During the inspection police found various skinhead and nazist emblems, signs and symbols.

The biggest obstacles for businesses in Slovakia lie in poor law enforcement, weak functioning of the courts, legal regulations that are not sufficiently comprehensive, usable nor permanent, along with the high level of bureaucracy, tardy authorities, corruption and a lack of effectiveness in the state economy.

The European Commission requires Slovakia to remove investment restrictions for compulsory pension funds deposited in the private pillar of the country's pension system. The Social Affairs ministry declares that it is developing amendments to the act on social insurance and pension savings.

Slovak Parliament approved an Act on Education and Training that was drafted by the Education Ministry with the aim of revamping the school system. The new Act will substitute 20-year-old legislation that was introduced in the former communist Czechoslovakia.

The Slovak Government approved the draft agreement on border relations between Slovakia and Ukraine, which must be approved by the European Commission before being submitted to Slovakian Parliament.

Apart from tax and customs documents, the use of electronic signatures in Slovakia will be legitimate in business registers, the real-estate registry, the insurance sector, the issuing of passports and in other fields.

According to the proposal, the Slovak police will have the right to launch investigations into people's incomes and the value and way that they acquired their property in response to a written notice or on their own initiative.