Progressive Slovakia aims to become a party

The Progressive Slovakia association, which wants to change into a political party, presented on Sunday its long-term vision for Slovakia's development, citing some trends that should have an impact on Slovakia in the next few years, including the progress of technology and the population's ageing. The association, which has already collected the 10,000 signatures needed for registering as a political party, wants to squeeze the share of long-term unemployed under the EU average, improve the results of Slovak pupils in the international PISA tests, put Slovakia among the first 15 countries on the OECD's index of quality of life, increase the number of patents from Slovakia, boost the presence of Slovak scientific teams on international projects and reduce the number of preventable deaths to at least the Czech level.