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Bilcik: CoFoE Conclusions Show Need for Changes to Treaty on Functioning of EU

Bilcik: CoFoE Conclusions Show Need for Changes to Treaty on Functioning of EU

Bratislava/Brussels, May 23 (TASR) – The conclusions of the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) showed the need for changes to the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU, Slovak MEP Vladimir Bilcik (Together) has told TASR in an interview. According to Bilcik, the European Parliament has already tasked

Caputova Visits CERN

Caputova Visits CERN

Geneva, May 21 (TASR-correspondent) – Slovak President Zuzana Caputova, visiting the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva on Saturday, invited its head Fabiola Gianotti, an Italian experimental particle physicist, to visit Slovakia. According to the president, Gianotti praised the work of Slovak scientists working in the organisation and cooperation

CoFoE: Galek: Three Years Should Suffice for Slovakia to Give Up Russian Oil

CoFoE: Galek: Three Years Should Suffice for Slovakia to Give Up Russian Oil

Bratislava, May 21 (TASR) – Slovakia is capable of replacing its oil supplier completely within three years, but this will require several investments and technological changes made not only to the Slovnaft oil refinery but also the Adria pipeline and emergency oil reservoirs in eastern Slovakia, Economy Ministry State Secretary Karol

Caputova: Role of Europeans to Restore Balance between Rights and Accountability

Caputova: Role of Europeans to Restore Balance between Rights and Accountability

Bern, May 19 (TASR-correspondent) – There are divisions, inequalities and polarisation in society, with social media often intensifying these phenomena, contributing to the rise of extremism; and the role of Europeans is to restore the balance between democratic rights and accountability, said President Zuzana Caputova when addressing members of the Swiss

CoFoE: We Need to Restore Peace and Punish Russia, MEPs Concur

CoFoE: We Need to Restore Peace and Punish Russia, MEPs Concur

Bratislava, May 19 (TASR) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought an urgent need to restore peace on the old continent, and the European Union must take further steps to force Moscow to end its aggression, MEPs Lucia Duris Nicholsonova and Ivan Stefanec have concurred in a discussion on TASR

Korcok: Slovak Embassy in Kiev in Operation Again as of Wednesday

Korcok: Slovak Embassy in Kiev in Operation Again as of Wednesday

Bratislava, May 18 (TASR) – The Slovak Embassy in Kiev began operating again as of Wednesday, said Foreign Affairs Minister Ivan Korcok (a Freedom and Solidarity/SaS nominee) during the Government session on Wednesday. A team of specialists from the special purpose office is working at the embassy to ensure that

Ivan Miklos to Be Member of Consultative Commission for Ukraine's Reconstruction

Ivan Miklos to Be Member of Consultative Commission for Ukraine's Reconstruction

Bratislava/Kiev, May 17 (TASR) – Former Slovak vice-premier and finance minister Ivan Miklos will be a member of the consultative commission at the National Council for the Reconstruction of Ukraine. “I was contacted by the office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the secretary of this commission, the chairman of the