Foreign Policies

Caputova: EU Should Pass Through Coronavirus Crisis Together

Bratislava, May 1 (TASR) – Each EU-member state should display good will to help other countries during the coronavirus crisis and pass through the crisis in co-operation with others, stated Slovak President Zuzana Caputova on a social network on Friday, the 16th anniversary of Slovakia’s accession to the EU.

“I believe that after the new government assumed office [in late March], consensus in our foreign policy – disturbed in recent years – will also be restored. It’s never been so evident that European policies directly concern us all so much,” said Caputova in reference to the coronavirus pandemic.

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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