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Ľubica Karvašová has served as the diplomatic advisor on EU affairs to Igor Matovič as prime minister and now continues her mission under his successor, Eduard Heger.

The woman who negotiated additional Pfizer vaccines for Slovakia: In the EU, Sputnik is not taboo

Ľubica Karvašová is the EU affairs advisor to the Slovak prime minister.

First Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to be administered in Slovakia.

Slovakia to receive hundreds of thousands more vaccines by June

Slovakia benefits from the new redistribution. We will remember it when others turn to us asking for solidarity, foreign affairs minister commented.

Finance Minister Eduard Heger

Slovakia's recovery plan will be a storm of reform or a wasted opportunity

The government needs solid political capital to put the €6 billion package from the EU to good use.

Police officers check vehicles in a parking lot shortly after the German-Czech border in Waidhaus, Germany, Tuesday, Feb.16, 2021. Germany's tightened entry rules at the border with the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Tyrol to protect against dangerous variants of the coronavirus came into force two days ago.

EU wants Germany to explain why it closed its eastern borders

The European Commission did not recommend closing borders, stressing the need for free movement of people and goods.

Slovak pupils still lag behind OECD and EU average in mathematics

Results in natural sciences are comparable with other countries.

EU recovery plan opens a window of opportunity if Slovakia can use it well

Experts recommend spending billions of euros from the recovery fund on transforming Slovakia’s industry-driven economy.

Bratislava becomes home of European Labour Authority

ELA is meant to make Europe’s labour market fairer and enable citizen mobility.

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Digital economy index: Slovakia at bottom ranks among EU states

About 82 percent of Slovaks use the internet and two-thirds use online banking.

Miriam Prívarová

The EU delegation for the Youth 20 Summit will be led by a Slovak

Miriam Prívarová is the first Slovak to lead the summit, which officially accompanies the meeting of G20 leaders.

Restrictions at Slovakia’s borders with Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary were extended until May 27, the government decided on May 7.

Legal questions raised as border closures extended

Negotiations start on holiday ‘corridor’ to Croatia, but health experts call for people to stay in Slovakia.

Miroslav Lajčák

Former minister Lajčák set to return to the Balkans

The former foreign affairs minister is one of Slovakia's top diplomats.

Ivan Korčok

New minister will fly in from Washington

SaS put forward a top professional diplomat. Ivan Korčok is a safe pair of hands, analysts say.

Bratislava

Slovakia fails to catch up with regional peers and the EU

Slovakia has made little progress in addressing the Commission’s 2019 recommendations.

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Youth in Slovakia most critical toward the US among V4 peers

They tend to position Slovakia somewhere between the east and west.

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When did the foreign press write about Slovakia the most?

German dailies paid more attention to Slovakia than their French and Italian counterparts between 2000 and 2017.

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Slovaks living in the UK should register their residence

The recommendation was issued by the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

President Zuzana Caputova met French President Emmanuel Macron during her official visit to France on July 24.

Europe needs to adapt and act swiftly and firmly

The legacy of 1989 is freedom, unity, and sovereignty.

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The European Parliament questions the right of the Council of the EU to locate the European Labour Authority in Bratislava without the EP's approval

Bratislava will not lose the EU office despite discord

EU institutions clash over a selection procedure of the ELA’s seat.

Slovakia had the third lowest share of people living at  risk of poverty and social exclusion in the EU last year

Slovaks the third lowest at risk of poverty in the EU

The EU is markedly failing to meet its Europe 2020 strategy.

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