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Former Czech EU Commissioner Věra Jourová describes in an interview Fico’s willingness to change draft laws to avoid losing EU funds. She also denies that Michal Šimečka went to Brussels to beg for Slovakia to lose money. “It was an absolute lie,” she says.
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There are more women than men in Slovakia, yet we often talk about them as a minority – from whom disproportionately higher expectations are placed. For a small country like Slovakia, however, it is a luxury not to utilize half of its potential, agreed the women from the Slovak diplomatic and academic community.
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The Director of the Ukrainian Women’s Fund, Olesia Bodnar, explains Ukraine’s progress in gender equality through the systematic and long-term development of related policies. A separate chapter is the impact of the Russian invasion, which forced many women to become independent overnight.
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Europeans face numerous challenges that they must address if they truly want to strengthen their defense capabilities. Not only do they suffer from an acute shortage of several defense capacities, but some also want to repeat past mistakes and economically rely on regimes that carry out hybrid attacks against them, the panelists concluded at the April SFPA conference.
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Initial estimates at the beginning of the year anticipated that 23 of the 32 Alliance members would meet the 2-percent commitment; however, Montenegro ultimately did not. The current discourse discusses further increasing spending above three percent of GDP, while Donald Trump calls for up to five percent.
