Slovakia has received several proposals for bilateral recognition of vaccinations.
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Slovakia is preparing for the launch of so-called Covid passes, informed State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Martin Klus.
“Efforts are still being made to implement the digital, green passes on June 15, as scheduled,” he said, as quoted by the TASR newswire. “Slovakia will also participate in testing these digital certificates. We will not risk anything and could join other EU countries in mid-June,” Klus noted.
He also observed that on the Slovak side, the Health Ministry and the Ministry of Informatization are working on the Covid passes. Klus added that despite talks about coordination, some member countries of the EU are worried about whether they will succeed in issuing the Covid passes on time, before the summer holidays. He said they are considering this type of document on a regional scale.
The Supreme Court will decide on the
appeal in the case of the murder of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová on 15 June.
The government has approved Finance Minister Igor Matovič s proposal to
increase budget spending by €3.4 billion this year. The public finance deficit could thus reach 10 percent of GDP. Richard Sulík disagrees with this proposal and is asking for a discussion.
The Nuclear Regulatory Authority has issued
a permit allowing the third Mochovce unit to be put into operation. An appeal against the decision is still possible.
The road construction plan has been passed by the government. The highest priority is the completion
When Slovakia’s prime minister welcomed a military aircraft carrying 200,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia in March, he posed proudly for photographs on the tarmac in front of crates stuffed with what he expected to be his country’s medical salvation.
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Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine: just what the doctor ordered to divide Europe
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Bratislava, Slovakia: When Slovakia’s Prime Minister welcomed a military aircraft carrying 200,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia in March, he posed proudly for photographs on the tarmac in front of crates stuffed with what he expected to be his country’s medical salvation.
Slovakia at the time had the world’s highest per capita death rate from COVID-19, and the arrival of the Russian vaccine offered a rare glimmer of hope. For Russia it offered big benefits, too: a small but symbolically important new market for its product in the European Union, which has so far declined to register the vaccine and urged member states to hold off on orders until approval is granted.