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Fico: EU Doesn't Need Plan B, It Just Needs Better Communication

Fico: EU Doesn't Need Plan B, It Just Needs Better Communication

Bratislava, May 28 (TASR) – Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD) stated at the GLOBSEC international security conference in Bratislava on Sunday that the EU “doesn’t need a plan B, while in fact it needs normal open debate”. Fico was speaking as part of a debate panel entitled “European (Dis)

Paska: I Don't Understand Lajcak's Endorsement of Turkey's EU Bid

Paska: I Don't Understand Lajcak's Endorsement of Turkey's EU Bid

Bratislava, May 27 (TASR) – Vice-chairman of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee Jaroslav Paska, serving for the co-governing Slovak National Party (SNS), on Saturday criticised Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak’s endorsement of Turkey’s ambitions to join the EU. “I don’t understand this statement made by the

Valasek: Slovakia's Dispatching of Soldiers to Baltic Isn't Favour to Allies

Valasek: Slovakia's Dispatching of Soldiers to Baltic Isn't Favour to Allies

Bratislava, May 27 (TASR) – Slovakia’s participation in NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence in the Baltic is important as a boosting element for NATO’s unity vis-a-vis the North Atlantic Treaty’s Article 5, former Slovakia’s permanent representative to NATO and current Carnegie Europe director Tomas Valasek has told

Slovaks, Czechs and Hungarians Favour Neutral Position between West and East

Slovaks, Czechs and Hungarians Favour Neutral Position between West and East

Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) – An overview of common trends as well as regional differences in seven central and eastern European countries have been included in the latest comprehensive analysis of public opinion poll entitled GLOBSEC Trends 2017, the results of which were presented at a press conference in Bratislava on

Fedor: Security Environment Now Most Unstable in Decades

Fedor: Security Environment Now Most Unstable in Decades

Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) – The security environment that Slovakia is in hasn’t been so unstable in decades, and this doesn’t concern only relatively far-off conflicts such as those in Syria and northern Iraq, but also the one in Ukraine and the situation in the Balkans, governing coalition Most-Hid

SaS Submits Constitutional Bill to Raise Defence Budget to 2% of GDP

SaS Submits Constitutional Bill to Raise Defence Budget to 2% of GDP

Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) – Opposition party Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) has submitted a constitutional bill aimed at increasing Slovakia’s defence budget by at least 0.1 percentage points each year so that eventually at least 2 percent of GDP will be spent on the military annually, TASR learnt on

Lajcak: Conflicts in Neighbourhood, Events Like GLOBSEC Needed

Lajcak: Conflicts in Neighbourhood, Events Like GLOBSEC Needed

Bratislava, May 26 (TASR) – The 12th annual GLOBSEC international security conference was opened in Bratislava on Friday by Slovak Foreign and European Affairs Minister Miroslav Lajcak, who in his speech noted that the event is taking place in challenging times with many armed conflicts. “[Conflicts] aren’t only taking place