H.E. Eduard Heger
DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF FINANCE, SLOVAK REPUBLICEduard Heger was appointed the Minister of Finance and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic on March 21, 2020.
Prior to assuming this position, Mr Heger served as a Member of the National Council of the Slovak Republic where he represented the political movement Ordinary People and the Independent Personalities (Obyčajní ľudia a nezávislé osobnosti – OĽaNO) from 2016 to 2020. In 2019 he also became the Chairman of this parliamentary group.
In addition, during this period his other assignments included the membership in various committees of the National Council of the Slovak Republic – the chairmanship of the Special Supervisory Committee for the Control of the Military Intelligence as well as the membership of the Committee on Economic Affairs and the membership of the Committee on European Affairs.
Before entering the state sector Mr Heger held several managerial positions in the private sector. He is also actively engaged in civil society by his membership in non-governmental organisations.
Mr Heger obtained a degree at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Commerce Faculty, Trade and Marketing.
our Agenda
Friday 09 October
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TOWARDS RECOVERY & RESILIENCE: REBUILDING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMY AFTER COVID19
- H.E. Eduard Heger
- Lilyana Pavlova
- Maithreyi Seetharaman
- Vazil Hudák
The unprecedented fallouts from the corona-pandemic have been met by an unparalleled global response. Central banks, national governments and international institutions everywhere have mobilized firepower to soften the blows to the economy, stabilize financial markets and mitigate adverse effects on jobs. In Europe, the pandemic has exposed the flaws in the EU’s economic architecture and the inadequacy of its existing policy toolkit to tackle the economic calamity. Discretionary fiscal responses were rolled out by national governments, alongside the ECB’s asset purchase programme, with the latter being the only supranational steppingstone firmly in place until the Macron-Merkel initiative offset a series of meaningful negotiations on a shared European rescue package, featuring a common European debt instrument. The call is open to put forth the cornerstones of national Recovery and Resilience strategies, a prerequisite to access the funds from the Facility. How are countries planning to allocate these funds to enable a deeper structural transformation of their economies, and how do these national strategies square with European strategic priorities? With green and digital twin transitions at the heart of the recovery, how can these plans reconcile thorough economic stabilization and the need to reset on a more sustainable and resource-efficient growth trajectory?