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Gajdos Pledges Deployment of Up to 150 Soldiers to Latvia

Gajdos Pledges Deployment of Up to 150 Soldiers to Latvia

Brussels/Bratislava, October 27 (TASR-correspondent) – NATO defence ministers in Brussels on Wednesday met for the first time since the Warsaw summit that took place on July 8-9 in order to determine the form of four multinational battalions that will serve in Poland and the Baltic states, TASR learnt on Thursday.

Sefcovic Presents New Space Strategy for Europe

Sefcovic Presents New Space Strategy for Europe

Brussels/Bratislava, October 26 (TASR-correspondent) – The European Commission (EC) considers space policies to be a strategic sector of the EU’s economic development, said EC Vice-president for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic on Wednesday when presenting a Space Strategy for Europe. Sefcovic, who is also responsible for coordinating EU space policies,

Sobotka: V4 Isn't Troublemaker, It Wants to Prevent EU from Breaking Up

Sobotka: V4 Isn't Troublemaker, It Wants to Prevent EU from Breaking Up

Bratislava, October 22 (TASR) – The Visegrad Four (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) isn’t a source of problems in Europe, quite the contrary – it’s working to prevent Europe from breaking up, Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka stated at the programme conference of Slovak social democratic party Smer-SD

Sigmar Gabriel: People Must Feel that Europe Helps Them

Sigmar Gabriel: People Must Feel that Europe Helps Them

Bratislava, October 22 (TASR) – Social Democrats in Europe should promote the ideas of freedom and solidarity, and strive to see ordinary people feeling that Europe helps them, chief of the German Social Democratic Party and Federal Vice-chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said at Smer-SD’s programme conference in Bratislava on Saturday. “The

Fico Sees Sanctions against Russia as Pointless and Not Leading to Anything

Fico Sees Sanctions against Russia as Pointless and Not Leading to Anything

Brussels, October 21 (TASR) – The EU’s sanctions against Russia are pointless and don’t work, stated Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico after the EU summit in Brussels on Friday. Summarising Brussels’s deliberations on foreign relations, Fico said that the leaders focused mainly on the situation in Ukraine and

Kalinak: Slovakia Tries to Integrate Muslim into Society Quickly

Kalinak: Slovakia Tries to Integrate Muslim into Society Quickly

Bratislava, October 21 (TASR) – The easiest way to reduce Islamic radicalisation is to integrate Muslims into society, said Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak at a meeting with the G6 interior ministers in Rome on Friday, ministry spokesperson Andrea Dobiasova told TASR on the same day. The G6 (Group of Six)

Fico Criticises Kiska for V4 Comments and Meeting with Dalai Lama

Fico Criticises Kiska for V4 Comments and Meeting with Dalai Lama

Brussels, October 20 (TASR-correspondent) – Slovak President Andrej Kiska’s recent criticism of the Visegrad Four (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) for having an allegedly poor image in Europe over its stance towards migration was inappropriate, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said in Brussels on Thursday. The summit of