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“European Solidarity: (Mis)interpretation in Slovakia” is about to go LIVE on #zoom! Make sure to tune in while you still can for the views on European #solidarity from 🇸🇰

As always, we'll be highlighting some key moments

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@ComeniusUni @SLOVAKIAinEU @SlovakiaMFA

Lucia Mokrá, Chairperson of the TEPSA Board gives a presentation of the 🇸🇰 chapter of "European Solidarity in Action and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals", which she co-authored with Andrea Figulová, this event's moderator

👉 tepsa.eu/tepsa-books/

We welcome @koztoma, Director-General for Europe at
@SlovakiaMFA, who speaks about defining solidarity, interpreting solidarity, and Slovakia's experience with solidarity

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"This country has been rebuilt thanks to EU #solidarity: this is the most visible impact of the EU to people in Slovakia"

- @koztoma, Director-General for Europe at @SlovakiaMFA

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We now turn to @MagdaVasaryova, founder of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA), for her views on EU #Solidarity from Slovakia's perspective

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"Why are we not willing to express more European solidarity today? After 30 years in the free world, our national narrative of persecution has not changed"

- @MagdaVasaryova, founder of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (SFPA)

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We now turn to lawyer, feminist, and human rights activist Zuzana Števulová for her perspectives on #solidarity in one of the most contested issues in Slovakia: #migration and #asylum

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"Since 2015 #migrants, #refugees, and #AsylumSeekers have suffered from othering. The people themselves are almost missing in the discussion"

- Zuzana Števulová on the lack of human-to-human solidarity in Slovakia during the #RefugeeCrisis

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After some initial thoughts from our panellists, our moderator @ComeniusUni's Andrea Figulová moves things on to the Q&A -> if you have a question for our distinguished panel this is your chance!

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"#Solidarity is a value, it is a principle, it is a guide. There is not something that should be - or can be - enforced, rather it is something that needs to naturally come from the citizens"

- Zuzana Števulová's concluding thoughts

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"#Solidarity is a moral obligation. We are not pushed to express solidarity: we have to work on it, because it does not necessarily come naturally"

- @MagdaVasaryova's concluding thoughts

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"Education, communication, and historical understanding are the three pillars by which we can establish #solidarity. We have started the journey, but there is a long way to go"

- Lucia Mokrá's concluding thoughts

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On that note our moderator concludes the panel, thanks to everyone who attended, and a special thanks to our panellists: Lucia Mokrá, @koztoma from @SlovakiaMFA, @MagdaVasaryova from SFPA, and activist Zuzana Števulová

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