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On 26 January 2024, the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic Juraj Blanár met with the Romanian Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu in Bucharest. The talks focused on mutual relations, the European agenda and regional cooperation and security issues, including the negative impact of the war in Ukraine. The ministers also signed a protocol on education for the period between 2024 and 2028. The signing of a memorandum of understanding in the field of nuclear energy is also underway.

On 30 December 2023, the EU Member States unanimously approved the agreement on the partial integration of Bulgaria and Romania into the Schengen zone. The Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Juraj Blanár, welcomed the decision, which will include the two countries into the Schengen open-borders area by air and sea as of March 2024. Negotiations about land borders are set to continue at the European level next year.

On 13 November 2023, the Government of the Slovak Republic approved its manifesto.

On 22 September 2023, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic, Peter Mišík, met with State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania Daniela Grigore Gitman, in Bucharest. They discussed the situation in Ukraine, the security dimension to cooperation, the enlargement and future of the EU, and migration.

Concert. to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Slovak diplomacy – a gala event of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic took place in the Winter Riding Hall of Bratislava Castle on Thursday, 29 June 2023.

On 24 June, the Slovak Republic commemorates the Day of Remembrance and Respect to Victims of the Communist Regime - all those wrongly convicted and imprisoned between 1948 and 1989. On this date, 24 June 1954, a doctor, political prisoner and Catholic dissident Silvester Krčméry was unjustly convicted of alleged treason, after being tortured.