Lívia Vašáková

Ing. Lívia Vašáková, PhD. (née Zemanovičová; * 1977, Bratislava) is a Slovak economist and manager. She currently holds the position of Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for the Recovery and Resilience Plan and the use of EU funds. Previously, she headed the Recovery Plan Section at the Slovak Government Office as Director General, the Economic Analysis Section at the Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia and worked at the Directorate General for Energy at the European Commission in Brussels.

Early life and education

Lívia Vašáková
Deputy Prime Minister of Slovakia
Assumed office
15 May 2023
Prime MinisterĽudovít Ódor
Personal details
Born
Lívia Zemanovičová

1977 (age 4546)
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Alma materComenius University

Lívia Vašáková has both Slovak and French Baccalaureate degrees from the Gymnázium na Metodovej ulici, in Bratislava, and graduated from the Faculty of Business Management of the University of Economics in Bratislava in 1997-2002. She completed her studies at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, University of Aix-en-Provence in France and University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She has a postgraduate diploma from Europa-Kolleg in Hamburg and in 2018 she completed her doctoral studies in management at the Faculty of Management of Comenius University in Bratislava.

Professional career

From 2000 to 2004, Lívia Vašáková worked at INEKO - Institute for Economic and Social Reforms, where she worked on projects to improve corporate governance.

From 2003 to 2004 she worked in the European Committee of the Regions, then from 2005 to 2013 she worked as an economic analyst at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Energy, where she focused on energy modelling and economic impact assessment of energy legislation, particularly in the areas of greenhouse gas reduction, energy efficiency and renewables.

From February 2013 to 2020, she worked at the Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia, where she worked on the communication of European economic and social policies and led the economic analysis team.

During her visit to Bratislava, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presents the official assessment of the Slovak recovery plan.

Since 2020, she has been Director General of the Recovery Plan Section at the Slovak Government Office. The Section also acts as the National Implementation and Coordination Authority (NIKA), which coordinates the implementation of the Recovery Plan at the national level and communicates with the European Union on payment requests.

The Recovery and Resilience Facility is the EU's joint response to the severe economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Its main objective is to support reforms and investments that will allow Slovakia to start catching up to the EU average standard of living again. Slovakia submitted its Recovery and Resilience Plan in April 2021 as the 5th European Union country. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen described it as ambitious and of high quality: "Because speed is good, but there must also be quality, and there is a lot of quality in this plan," von der Leyen said.[1]

Slovakia ranks among the European leaders in the implementation of the Recovery Plan and is one of the first countries to have already received money from the 2nd payment request of the Recovery Plan.[2]


Since 15 May 2023, Lívia Vašáková has held the post of Deputy Prime Minister for the Recovery and Resilience Plan and the use of EU funds in the cabinet of Ludovít Ódor.[3]

During her time in the caretaker government, Slovakia has submitted its 3rd payment application worth €815 million,[4] the fifth country in the European Union to do so, and is preparing to submit its 4th application. Slovakia thus maintains its position as a European leader in the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan.

Main reasons for the poor use of EU funds in Slovakia are analysed in a publication entitled Catching up: 15 years of (un)used EU funds?

The introduction of regular "euro-governments" under her leadership brought about more rigorous monitoring and project management in the use of EU funds and the bureaucratic government managed to reduce the risk of a fall in EU funds by EUR 700 million.[5] The Deputy Prime Minister's Office under her leadership also undertook an analysis of the use of EU funds in Slovakia. She analysed the main reasons for the poor use of EU funds in Slovakia in a publication entitled Catching up: 15 years of (un)used EU funds? and in cooperation with the Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatisation proposed recommendations for their improvement.



References

  1. Teraz.sk (2021-06-21). "Šéfka Eurokomisie: Slovenský plán obnovy má zelenú". TERAZ.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  2. Teraz.sk (2023-03-22). "SR dostala druhú platbu z plánu obnovy v hodnote 709 miliónov eur". TERAZ.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  3. Teraz.sk (2023-05-15). "TOTO SÚ ONI: Zoznámte sa s profilmi členov novej vlády". TERAZ.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  4. a.s, Petit Press. "Slovensko podalo tretiu žiadosť o platbu z Plánu obnovy vo výške 815 miliónov eur". index.sme.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2023-10-13.
  5. Onuferová, Marianna (2023-09-27). "Z eurofondov neprepadnú stovky miliónov, vláda čaká, že ich bude „iba" sto". Denník E (in Slovak). Retrieved 2023-10-13.
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