The time stress connected to the accelerated financial assistance to Greece is suspicious and improper for an appropriate discussion on loan equalling to €110 billion said SDKU-DS caucus leader Stanislav Janis on Saturday.

The foreign affairs ministries of Ukraine and Slovakia signed a cooperation agreement, Ukraine's Foreign Minister Kostiantyn Hryshchenko infromed during a briefing with his Slovak counterpart Miroslav Lajcak.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico expressed interest in co-operation with the new Hungarian government emerging from the election this weekend. Hungary’s center right party Fidesz led by Viktor Orban gained a clear majority in the first round of the parliamentary elections.

Russian nuclear fuel fabricator TVEL has signed a contract with Slovakia’s Slovenské Electrárne (SE) to supply fuel for units 3 and 4 of the Mochovce nuclear power plant, currently under construction. The contract covers the period from 2012 to 2017.

Most-Hid - one of the political parties representing ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia said on Wednesday that if it succeeds in the June's parliamentary elections it will seek equal rights between indigenous ethnic minorities - including Hungarians, the Roma, Ruthenians - and the majority Slovak population.

Central Election Committee on Monday informed that eighteen political parties have submitted their slates for the June's parliamentary elections. Last time parliamentary elections took place four years ago and twenty one parties took part in the competition.

Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic on Sunday afternoon began his three-day official visit to Slovenia. On the second day his visit he attended a bilateral business forum where he called for more co-operation between economic representatives and entrepreneurs of the two countries against the global economic crisis.

The Slovak emission quotas scandal can drag on and on, and without immediate legal steps being taken Slovakia could lose at least €216 million, said Rainer K. Wachter, the director of Vienna branch of the American law firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP on Thursday.

The freshly dismissed construction and regional development minister Igor Stefanov will be advising Education Minister Jan Mikolaj in the Construction Ministry related agenda as Mikolaj was on Thursday appointed by President Ivan Gasparovic to replace Stefanov in the post.

The Slovak Parliament passed the Patriotism Act. The legislation set to come into effect as of April 2010. According to the act, the Slovak national anthem must be mandatorily played in all schools at the beginning of every school week.