Foreign Policies

CoFoE: Bilcik Welcomes Extended Powers for EMA

Bratislava/Strasbourg, January 24 (TASR) – Slovak MEP Vladimir Bilcik has welcomed the more extensive powers for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) that the European Parliament greenlighted on January 20.

“During the pandemic, we in Slovakia have been relying on the independence, responsibility and expertise of the EMA when approving vaccines and medicines against COVID,” said the MEP.

The future of the EU health-care sector and the European Health Union are also topics dealt with by the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), with four panels made up of EU citizens in session between September 2021-January 2022.

Following its most recent meeting, the third civic panel recommended extending the EMA’s powers with an eye towards ensuring equal quality of health care and proportionate costs across the EU.

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

Milan Krajniak Leader of Christian Union's Slate for EP Elections

Ex-minister of labour and former 'We Are Family' vice-chair Milan Krajniak will be the leader of the Christian Union's (KU) slate for the European Parliament (EP) elections, said KU chair Anna Zaborska when presenting the party's 14-member slate at a news conference in Zilina on Tuesday.

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