Government: Negotiating rewards for flood relief and increasing the work visa quota

Government: Negotiating rewards for flood relief and increasing the work visa quota

The state should reward policemen, firefighters and other civil servants who helped to manage the September floods. The amount exceeding 2.2 million euros also includes a financial donation for volunteer fire brigades, which also participated in the interventions. The government on Wednesday will approve the reward proposed by the Ministry of the Interior (MV) of the Slovak Republic.

At the 56th session, the cabinet is also set to approve an increase in the quota for granting national visas for foreigners working in Slovakia, this quota is to be increased to 25,000 by the end of the year.
It will also address the Progress Report on the Implementation of the Recovery Plan, which deals with the ongoing achievement of 21 milestones related to the fifth payment request. Slovakia should submit it in December, Slovakia is due to receive almost 600 million euros from the Mechanism for the Support of Recovery and Resilience.

Also on the agenda are information on progress in the implementation of the recovery and resilience plan under the management of the Ministries of the Interior and Transport, as well as the proposal to update the action plan of measures to ensure the exhaustion of funds from the Rural Development Program 2014 - 2022.

The cabinet should also withdraw from the existing treaties signed by the former Czechoslovakia with the Soviet Union and Hungary in the era of socialism on the prevention of dual citizenship of children from mixed marriages. The still valid treaties, which Slovakia also took over as part of the succession of the former common state, are in conflict with the European Union Convention on Citizenship, as well as with the Slovak Constitution.

At the meeting, the Government will also approve the statute of the Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic for National Minorities, by which the Council becomes a permanent advisory body of the Cabinet for issues related to the status and rights of national minorities. The Council follows up on the activity and agenda of the Committee for National Minorities and Ethnic Groups. As part of informative reports, the cabinet will also consider the assessment of the fulfillment of the state's tasks in the field of combating human trafficking.

Source: TASR

Ben Pascoe, Photo: TASR

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