We wish to acquire membership in the European Union at the same time with the countries having commenced discussions earlier. We therefore need to increase the efficiency and quality of negotiations, to achieve maximum success in the talks on accession of Slovakia to the European Union. However, the conditions of membership include an additional series of partial priorities, as for example the successful completion of the public administration reform, or acceptance of the amended Constitution of the Slovak Republic. These sub-priorities must be fulfilled as soon as possible in the interests of our arrival in the advanced world. I wish to put much more emphasis on this priority in this year.
Business is the backbone of economy of all advanced countries.
I visualize the permanent economic growth of Slovakia my personal priority. We must strengthen the business environment generating new jobs, contributing to the revenues of the national budget. The essence of this priority will include such sub-priorities as the development of information society, acceptance of a law on industrial parks, growth of international investment capital inputs and continuing effective privatization in selected branches of our economy. Our objective is to maintain a generally reasonable economic policy, supporting decreasing rates of interest and decreasing inflation. Positive development of the living standard is the third priority .