Foreign Policies

Hajsel: Future of Europe to Be Decided in Elections, Not CoFoE

Bratislava, December 20 (TASR) – The future form of the EU will be decided in national parliamentary elections of member states and, to a lesser extent, in the European Parliament elections and not at the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), thinks Slovak MEP Robert Hajsel.

According to Hajsel, COFoE should involve in its discussions not only urbanites from big cities but also countryside dwellers; and not just academics, journalists and young activists but also employees, pensioners and entrepreneurs.

“I’m afraid that the reason (for low public participation in CoFoE) is not just COVID, but also the lack of belief that involvement in such a forum might change anything,” claimed Hajsel.

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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