Est. 1min 09-03-2004 (updated: 07-11-2012 ) Euractiv is part of the Trust Project >>> Languages: Français | DeutschPrint Email Facebook X LinkedIn WhatsApp Telegram A Slovak version of EURACTIV, EURACTIV.sk, has been officially launched in Bratislava. This will provide Slovaks with localised EU information in their native language, plus original content, as the country prepares to join the Union in May. EURACTIV.sk held its official launch event in Bratislava on 4 March. Several leading Slovak political and media figures were among the 50-odd guests invited by Publisher Ivan Stefunko and Editor-in-Chief Radovan Geist. Representing euractiv.com/Brussels were Publisher Christophe Leclercq and Marketing Director Flex Branders. Among the special guests were Mrs Monika Benová, Chairwoman of the European Integration Committee of the National Council of the Slovak Republic (NC SR), Mr Ján Figel, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the NC SR and commissioner nominee, and H.E. Juraj Migas, General Director of the Department of the Bilateral Co-operation of the Slovak Foreign Ministry and former Ambassador of the SR to the EC. Read more with Euractiv NATO chief urges EU to forge true common foreign policyNATO's new Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer does not fear competition from EU's defence ambitions and says that the main thing is to avoid duplication of forces. He sees the possibility of a future role for NATO in Iraq. Subscribe now to our newsletter EU Elections Decoded Email Address * Politics Newsletters PositionsIn his speech, Slovakia's upcoming commissioner Jan Figel described EURACTIV as "a symbol of representation of the European Actors in Slovakia". Mr Migas said that the Slovak portal guaranteed access to quality information about EU affairs to the local audience, adding that EURACTIV.sk was in fact the start page on his computer's web browser. Local policy portals also have their own sponsors - one example of this, in the case of Slovakia, is the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Germany. Background EURACTIV.skhas been publishing news and analyses on EU policy issues since September 2003. The portal's content comes partly from articles translated from EURACTIV.com and partly from its own Slovak sources. To date, EURACTIV.sk has published over a thousand articles and some 5,500 links to various documents on the web with relevance to the portal's readers. The portal, which is published in partnership with the Brussels-based EURACTIV.com, plays an integral role in EURACTIV's emergingCrossLingual network of EU policy portalsin the new EU Member States. TimelineEURACTIV is working to extend its CrossLingual network of EU policy portals to the EU's new Member States. Under a project co-funded by the Commission, EURACTIV concludes partnership agreements with media publications in the accession countries for the joint publication of EU policy information.
