Does it still make sense to you? What do we miss the most in Slovakia now? COHESION – Martin Greguš
We are in a revolutionary historical period of development of our state but also of our entire continent. In recent years, Slovakia and Europe have had to deal with several crises – economic, financial and political. Now for a change Ukrainian.
Nevertheless, I think that future historians will exist that these crises will serve as a catastrophe and have forced Europe and Europeans, but also Slovaks and Slovaks – to ask themselves key questions:
What should the Europe of the future look like? What should he do? And how? And what about Slovakia in this period? How should Slovakia move forward? How do you deal with these crises? What actually happened in Slovakia during this crisis period?
And what do we miss the most in Slovakia?
I will answer: We lack cohesion.
I see cohesion policy as a cement that unites our common values and goals, as the rock on which what we have built stands and what the whole of Europe could see for us if it worked.
Note that states that are cohesive in times of crisis always have the best results.
Cohesion policy plays a key role in strengthening the country’s economic, social and territorial cohesion.
Cohesion policy can only be successful in the long term if we also have the right macroeconomic conditions. And they are failing at the moment for many objective reasons.
Therefore, the emphasis should be on structural reforms, and since we needed society-wide support, we should be raised by national authorities and not politicians so soon.
I consider it the top number and “dagger” in the back, when even with the help of the movement, which until recently boasted its anti-corruption attribute, it was voted yesterday as a law legalizing the procedure for building rental housing, which was previously assessed as illegal, even by another state office. some cases have already been investigated by the police (MEP OĽANO – Kavecká). OLANO voters, whose day after day they are losing the right to be considered a betrayal.
But let’s return to cohesion in Slovakia. Every day, we hold on to new and new attacks by individual politicians in Slovakia. Their camps – I think – in most cases I can no longer even watch. Apathy develops. Apathy among the citizens.
Our goal and intention should be to create a cohesion policy that cares for all, is a simple, fast, efficient, flexible and functional support for more reforms in our country..
In the next period, our politicians should be in their thoughts on one important thing, which should be their duty to the citizens of Slovakia, and that is to be as close as possible to their needs. Politicians should realize that they serve the people and their power comes from the people and not the other way around.
Cohesion policy is Slovakia in the best condition, Slovakia caring and Slovakia building a better future for its children.
The quality of institutions, and especially public institutions, is obviously the most important ingredient in the recipe for innovation and development and sustainable development of Slovakia. Slovakia has many officials per capita and due to demographic developments openly discuss the ceiling in the number of civil servants and offices.
However, future cohesion policy will have to unravel the public paradox. This paradox is two radically different trends.
On the one hand, the public has been under austerity measures for almost a decade, changing its ability to act. On the other hand, the public sector is a threat to a sector marked by societal challenges that will work to a large extent for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. These include energy, health, education, transport, food security and decent care for the elderly. In all of these areas, we have a lot of problems that no one system solves.
If cohesion policy in Slovakia has more tangible results in securing the future, it must work with a smart public sector that cannot be weakened. Public administrations must therefore apply the despotic style they have used in the past and learn to manage and care for other citizens from the states, for example, forgive agencies such as the SP in the Basque Country, Aster in the Emilia RomagnaIC region of South Moravia.
These agencies are experts in cultivating regional innovation ecosystems, where public, private and third sector stakeholders learn to benefit from each other. Finally, regulatory simplification must remain at the top of priorities. Currently, public reception mixed signals depending on the political party that broadcasts them.
In principle, however, the rhetoric of cohesion policy of civil servants should encourage them to be more agile, creative and experimental in order to help citizens – their “clients”, and should focus in particular on “audit culture, does not tolerate support”.
At the same time, politicians across the political spectrum should recognize that diversity is a competitive advantage that comes from working together on new co-development solutions, securing jobs, clean energy, mobility or care for citizens, and transforming these opportunities into economic development, providing innovative solution.
Politicians have reaffirmed their priority for social inclusion in all their regional policy frameworks. In particular, it should promote the obligation that the urban development strategy must include a plan to combat social exclusion, including quantifiable targets, and that greater financial coverage be provided for this priority. From now on, the strategy in our cities should focus on urban development that is sustainable, integrated and inclusive. No one in the company should be left behind.
We can only achieve cohesion through inclusion and we can only grow if we are more cohesive.
Dear politician,
please, before you show another of the series of incomprehensible quarrels to the layman, think about the impact of this behavior in Slovakia and its inhabitants.
Slovakia needs COHESION. Not daily quarrels.