Brussels, 29/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Slovakian Minister of the Interior, Vladimir Palko, is due to meet the president of EuroCOP, Heinz Kiefer, on the sidelines of the EuroCOP conference to be held in Bratislava on 2 and 3 December. The Interior Ministry has announced that Vladimir Palko has agreed to discuss the threats that he had made end October against the Slovakian police trade union (EUROPE 9061). For several weeks, EuroCOP had called for talks with the minister. “We look forward to the talks (in Bratislava) with great expectations”, Mr Kiefer said. Last week, several MEPs, from Slovakia in particular, had called for EU intervention in this affair (EUROPE 9076).