Slovakia receives €240 million EIB loan to co-finance green and digital projects
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing a €240 million loan to Slovakia for co-funding of EU-supported green and digital…
UN and Member States condemn US Executive Order imposing sanctions on the ICC
The Internation Criminal Court and many international leaders condemn the issuance by the US of an Executive Order seeking to…
Europol warns consumers to be mindful about fake medicines offered online
Between April and November 2024, law enforcement, judicial, customs, medical and anti-doping authorities from 30 countries joined forces in Operation…
Slovak Republic: IMF Staff Concluding Statement of the 2025 Article IV Mission
Slovakia faces headwinds related to geoeconomic fragmentation, high energy costs, and demographic change. Growth has held up in recent years,…
Excessive deficit procedure: EU Council adopts recommendations for seven countries
On 21 January 2025, the EU Council adopted recommendations for seven countries to correct their excessive deficit situation within a…
Eurojust: Branislav Boháčik starts as national member for Slovakia
Before joining Eurojust, he worked as a judicial cybercrime specialist in the international department of the Prosecutor General’s office. In…
EU Commission and Member States confirm security of gas supply
In an extraordinary meeting of the Gas Coordination Group held on 2 January 2025, the EU Commission and the EU…
European Semester Autumn Package Part II: Socio-economic challenges for 2025
Today, the EU Commission unveils the second part of the European Semester Autumn Package, after the first part had been…
Slovakia: EU Commission receives 5th RRF payment request for €516.8m
Yesterday, the Commission has received the fifth payment request from Slovakia for €516.8 million in grants (net of pre-financing), under the Recovery…
Joint Action Day: Frontex teams up with 12 countries to crack down on smugglers
Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, led 12 European countries and international partners in a coordinated effort to…
EU electricity retail markets: ACER Country Sheets identify opportunities and threats
For the first time, ACER has published its Country Sheets on retail electricity markets across EU Member States and Norway.…
IEA report highlights the Slovakia’s impressive rollout of nuclear power
The Slovak Republic’s low-emissions electricity system is a cornerstone of its energy security and helps decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors, but more…
Slovakia: EU Commission disburses 4th RRF payment of €799m
The payment covers several reforms in the areas of sustainable transport, inclusive education, emergency care, long-term social and healthcare, justice, crisis management,…
Slavery and forced labour: Slovak failure to investigate trafficking of woman to UK
In today’s Chamber judgment1 in the case of B.B. v. Slovakia (application no. 48587/21) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had…
EIF and InvestEU supports housing for 3,500 students in Central and Eastern Europe
Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Baltic States to gain student accommodations after EIF throws its weight behind fund run…
EU launches humanitarian air bridge operation for Lebanon
Today, the EU launched a Humanitarian Air Bridge operation consisting of three flights from Dubai and Brindisi with the first one reaching…
Hungary accuses Ukraine of threatening the energy security of Hungary and Slovakia
Péter Szijjártó, Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said Ukraine has threatened the energy security of Hungary and Slovakia…
Slovakia: EU Commission approves amended support to energy-intensive companies
The EU Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, amendments to a Slovak scheme to partially compensate energy-intensive companies…
Slovakia suggests Maroš Šefčovič as Slovak Member of the EU Commission
Letter from Slovakia to President-elect of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen suggesting Mr Maroš Šefčovič as Member of…
Excessive deficits: EU Council launches procedures against seven member states
The EU Council adopted decisions establishing the existence of excessive deficits for Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia.…
Slovakia: ACER assesses the gas transmission tariff methodology
ACER releases its report on the Slovakian gas transmission tariffs proposed by Eustream A.S., the Transmission System Operator (TSO) of…
Slovakia: EU Commission opens in-depth investigation into support to NAJPI
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether public support granted to the Slovak company NAJPI a.s.…
Excessive deficits: EU Commission proposes decisions for seven EU Member States
The EU Commission has proposed to the Council yesterday decisions establishing the existence of excessive deficits for Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary, Malta, Poland, and Slovakia.
Slovakia: EU Commission endorses assessment of 4th RRF payment request for €799m
The EU Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Slovakia's fourth payment request for €799 million (net of pre-financing)…
European elections: Preliminary results in Slovakia
Preliminary results of the European elections in Slovakia.
European elections 2024 background: Slovakia country sheet
Find here information on electoral rules, poll opening and closing times and candidates for the 2024 European election in EU…
Slovakia: EU Commission approves compensation to TV operator Towercom
The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, Slovakia's plans to compensate digital terrestrial television (‘DTT') network operator Towercom for its direct…
Slovakia: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2023 Article IV Consultation
Growth is forecast to increase to 2.1 and 2.6 percent in 2024 and 2025, while inflation is projected to continue…
EU Commission publishes March infringements package – key decisions
In its regular package of infringement decisions, the European Commission pursues legal action against Member States for failing to comply…
Eurogroup statement on the updated draft budgetary plan of Slovakia for 2024
We note that the budget was passed into law on 21 December 2023, shortly after the submission of the updated…
Slovakia: EU Parliament concerned about deteriorating rule of law
With 496 votes for, 70 against and 64 abstentions, the European Parliament adopted a resolution questioning Slovakia’s ability to fight…
EU Commission presents Opinion on Slovakia’s updated Draft Budgetary Plan for 2024
This Opinion finds that Slovakia's updated Draft Budgetary Plan risks not being in line with the fiscal guidance contained in…
EU Commission disburses payments to Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia and Slovenia under the RRF
Germany received the first payment under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). The payment amounts to € 4 billion. On 15 September,…
EU Commission receives payment requests of Cyprus, Romania and Slovakia under the RRF
Cyprus's second payment request is worth €152 million in grants (net of pre-financing) and concerns a total of 33 milestones and 5 targets. This payment request covers…
EU Commission approves €1bn Slovak aid for net-zero transition
The European Commission has approved a €1 billion Slovak scheme to support investments for the production of equipment necessary to foster the transition towards…
EU Commission greenlights Slovakia’s €662m RRF request
Today, the Commission has endorsed a positive preliminary assessment of Slovakia's payment request for €662 million in grants under the Recovery…
Online fraud with cryptocurrencies: Eurojust and Europol actions across Europe
At the request of the Swiss authorities, Eurojust has coordinated several actions against an online fraud network in EU Member…
EU Commission approves amendment to Slovakia’s regional State aid map
On 16 September 2021, the Commission approved the 2022-2027 regional aid map for Slovakia, and its amendment on 17 February 2023 to increase…
EU Commission Executive VP Dombrovskis in Slovakia to visit Ukrainian border region
Between 5 and 7 October, Executive Vice-President and Commissioner for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, travels to Slovakia to visit the Ukrainian border…
Slovakia: Third RRF payment request for an €662m in grants
The third payment, which is net of pre-financing, concerns 21 milestones and 6 targets. These cover a set of transformative reforms aimed at improving the legal…
TSI: EU Commission supports Slovakia to make better use of cohesion funds
Today, in Bratislava, the Commission has launched a project helping Slovakia simplify and speed up the use of their cohesion funds. The project…
Recovery fund: EU Council greenlights updated national plans for France, Malta, Slovakia and Ireland
The Council today adopted implementing decisions approving the amended recovery and resilience plans of France, Malta, Slovakia and Ireland. The…
North Macedonia: Visit of Foreign Affairs Ministers on behalf of EU HRVP Borrell
On 13 July, Alexander Schallenberg, Federal Minister for European and International Affairs of Austria, Jan Lipavský , Minister of Foreign…
Switzerland: Elisabeth Baume-Schneider to visit aid projects for Ukrainian refugees in Poland and Slovakia
The trip will focus on exchanges with authorities, international organisations and NGOs on how the two countries are dealing with…
Komerční banka: EIF to facilitate up to €280m in new financing to Czech and Slovakian SMEs
European Investment Fund guarantees will support debt financing for about 6,500 micro, small and medium-sized companies in Czechia and Slovakia,…
EU Court of Justice: Advocate General’s Opinion in Case C-755/21 P | Kočner v Europol
Advocate General Rantos: Europol and a Member State in which damage occurred in relation to unlawful data processing can be…
EU Judgment in Cases C-407/21 UFC – Que choisir et CLCV and C-540/21 Commission v Slovakia (Right of cancellation without costs)
Thursday 8th June 2023 Judgment in Cases C-407/21 UFC – Que choisir et CLCV and C-540/21...
NextGenerationEU: Slovakia submits request to modify recovery and resilience plan
Brussels, 27 April 2023 Yesterday, Slovakia submitted a request to the Commission to modify its...
The EU Commission decides to refer Slovakia to the EU Court of Justice for Roma children segregation
Brussels, 19 April 2023 Today, the European Commission decided to refer Slovakia to the Court...