EU approves €923M for Slovakia

The European Commission (EC) approved a fourth payment to Slovakia, totalling 923 million EUR, as part of a recovery plan. The payment is to be awarded for meeting 15 milestones later this summer. „A delay in the evaluation was caused primarily by new priorities of the current government coalition, which are connected, for example, to the payment of 13th pensions. We managed to convince the EC that the introduced compensatory measures sufficiently guarantee the sustainability of the pension system in the future," said Peter Kmec (Hlas-SD), Deputy Prime Minister for the Recovery Plan. He added that this example also shows that the negotiations with the European Commission are taking place at a very professional level. According to the Government Office, it will be possible to implement several reforms such a reform for the integration and financing of long-term health and social care.
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