Foreign Policies

CoFoE: European Commission to Consider Recommendations to Amend EU Treaties

Brussels/Strasbourg, January 24 (TASR) – Recommendations from EU citizens are at the “heart of the process” of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), and if their recommendations establish the need to change EU treaties, the European Commission will support this in line with its legislative role, European Commission Vice-president for Democracy and Demography Dubravka Suica told the Euractiv website after the end of the CoFoE plenary session held in Strasbourg in January 21-22.

“The reason why we organised this Conference is to listen to our citizens. We see there is a gap between policymakers and the people. It isn’t enough to wait four or five years to see what the public thinks. We haven’t decided yet, but we’re considering at least keeping the multilingual digital platform as a permanent tool. People need a space in which to interact with policymakers,” said Suica.

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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