Foreign Policies

CoFoE: Sebova Supports European Health Union, Calls for Clear Frameworks

Bratislava, January 26 (TASR) – Lawmaker Zuzana Sebova (We Are Family), who sits on the parliamentary health committee, supports a joint European health solution as well as the discussion on creating a European Health Union, but she underlined the need to hold an extensive debate on the issue among the public.

Sebova said this to TASR with respect to the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), which deals partly with finalising the European Health Union.

The MP accentuated that health policy falls squarely under the remit of EU-member states.

“That’s why we need to identify very clearly the frameworks of what applies and what doesn’t regarding the European Health Union. And all of that must stand on a very firm legal basis. It’s important for the European Health Union to enjoy clear support across the entire EU so that people from Lisbon to Kosice will understand to the maximum possible extent the need to shift certain powers from member states to Brussels,” she said.

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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