Foreign Policies

Jourova: Majority of Proposals Submitted by CoFoE Panels Passable

Strasbourg, March 11 (TASR) – The March plenary session of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE), which will assess the recommendations of the last two of the four CoFoE citizens’ panels, heralds the final stage of this pan-European process, European Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova has stated in an interview for TASR.

The Czech commissioner is head of the CoFoE working group on values, human rights, democracy and the fight against disinformation.

According to her, the vast majority of CoFoE recommendations concerning the agenda of her working group are passable from the perspective of primary European law and the European Commission will continue to work on them in the future.

Just like EC Vice-President Maros Sefcovic, Jourova also confirmed that the CoFoE is entering its final phase. Citizen input will be gathered through other platforms in the coming days, but in two weeks it will be time for European institutions to formulate their conclusions regarding the conference.

ZSSK: New Train Service between Bratislava and Kiev Launched on Sunday

A rail connection between Slovakia and Ukraine is improving, with a new train service from Bratislava to Kiev being launched on Sunday, ZSSK passenger carrier spokesman Dominik Drevicky has informed TASR.

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

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