We calculate the cardinal characteristics of the $\sigma$-ideal $\mathscr{H}𝒩\left(G\right)$ of Haar null subsets of a Polish non-locally compact group $G$ with invariant metric and show that $cov\left(\mathscr{H}𝒩\right(G\left)\right)\le 𝔟\le max\{𝔡,non(𝒩\left)\right\}\le non\left(\mathscr{H}𝒩\right(G\left)\right)\le cof\left(\mathscr{H}𝒩\right(G\left)\right)>min\{𝔡,non(𝒩\left)\right\}$. If $G={\prod }_{n\ge 0}{G}_n$ is the product of abelian locally compact groups $G_n$, then $add\left(\mathscr{H}𝒩\right(G\left)\right)=add\left(𝒩\right)$, $cov\left(\mathscr{H}𝒩\right(G\left)\right)=min\{𝔟,cov(𝒩\left)\right\}$, $non\left(\mathscr{H}𝒩\right(G\left)\right)=max\{𝔡,non(𝒩\left)\right\}$ and $cof\left(\mathscr{H}𝒩\right(G\left)\right)\ge cof\left(𝒩\right)$, where $𝒩$ is the ideal of Lebesgue null subsets on the real line. Martin Axiom implies that $cof\left(\mathscr{H}𝒩\left(G\right)\right)>2^{{\aleph }_0}$ and hence $G$ contains a Haar null subset that cannot be enlarged to a Borel or projective Haar null subset of $G$. This gives a negative (consistent) answer to a question of...

Gruenhage asked if it was possible to cover the real line by less than continuum many translates of a compact nullset. Under the Continuum Hypothesis the answer is obviously negative. Elekes and Stepr mans gave an affirmative answer by showing that if $C_{EK}$ is the well known compact nullset considered first by Erdős and Kakutani then ℝ can be covered by cof() many translates of $C_{EK}$. As this set has no analogue in more general groups, it was asked by Elekes and Stepr mans whether such a result holds for...