Foreign Policies

CoFoE: Lexmann Underlines Green Transformation and Digitisation

Brussels/Bratislava, March 12 (TASR) – With respect to topics debated in the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), Slovak MEP Miriam Lexmann (KDH/EPP) underlined the green transformation, digitisation and the raising of awareness about the EU as important, although she disagrees with the recommendation to set up a single pan-European constituency for European Parliament elections.

Lexmann’s attention was drawn particularly to two recommendations in fields she is personally active in. “The first is the emphasis that the green transformation must go hand-in-hand with social protection of workers – to this category I would also add small- and mid-sized businesses. The second (recommendation) deals with digitisation and calls for the protection of workers from illegal monitoring during worktime and discrimination by algorithms,” she added.

The MEP objects to the recommendation supporting the single pan-European election constituency, as that would silence voices of small countries in the European Parliament.

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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