Foreign Policies

Blanar: UK Puts Slovakia on 'At Risk' List, Korcok Fails to Notice

Bratislava, July 10 (TASR) – House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Juraj Blanar (Smer-SD) took potshots at chief of Slovak diplomacy Ivan Korcok (SaS nominee) over the United Kingdom listing Slovakia among COVID-19 ‘at risk’ countries.

“How is it possible that the foreign affairs minister can’t pay adequate attention to a country so important to our people as Great Britain? This is an absolute failure of Slovak diplomacy, which has proven unable to apprise the British side of our situation when they [London] were drafting the list,” Blanar posted on Facebook on Friday.

Blanar pointed out that while nationals of the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria are free to travel to Great Britain without mandatory self-isolation, every Slovak will be forced to spend “two weeks of their precious time in British quarantine”, despite the fact that Slovakia is among the least risky countries.

The House Committee chair thus urges Korcok to remedy the situation.

SPPK: If Farmers Aren't Taken Seriously, They Will Be Seen in Streets More Often

If farmers' demands are not taken seriously, they will be seen in the streets more often, Slovak Agriculture and Food Chamber chairman Emil Macho told a news conference held in front of the Parliament's building on Thursday.

PM: Slovakia to Organise Repeated Mass Testing, Two Dozen Districts Exempt

Bratislava, November 2 (TASR) – Slovakia will organise a repeated mass testing for the coronavirus, but districts with positivity rates below 0.7 percent in the testing this past weekend will be exempt from the second round, Prime Minister Igor Matovic (OLaNO) announced after a meeting of the Central Crisis Management

Fico: Slovakia to Receive €1 bn of €10-bn Package of EU Funds for Floods

Slovakia will receive €1 billion of the €10-billion package from EU cohesion funds to deal with the consequences of the recent floods, Premier Robert Fico, who attended on Thursday a meeting of premiers and the European Commission on floods in Wroclaw, Poland, told a press conference on Friday.

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