Austria president to visit Slovakia on July 15

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen's informal visit to Slovakia, which should have taken place just over two weeks ago but had to be postponed, will now go ahead next Wednesday, Slovak President Zuzana Caputova's spokesman Martin Strizinec told TASR. The Austrian president will meet his Slovak counterpart in the latter's home town of Pezinok (Bratislava region). "The two heads of state will discuss the situation regarding the coronavirus pandemic, the EU recovery plan and their common priority of protecting the environment," said Strizinec. The meeting had to be put on hold because Caputova went into preventive home quarantine after one of the employees of the President's Office come into contact with a person tested positive for COVID-19. Neither the president nor the employee in question were infected, however.