Dear Colleagues,

let me invite you to the Central European Conference in Finance and Economics 2.0 (CEFE 2.0), which we are organising within the Košice Economic Forum (KEF).

The subtitle of this year conference is “Slovak Local Governments in Times of Crisis: Perspectives and Innovative Approaches”.

The conference will take place on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 09:00, in Aula Maxima, TUKE, Letná 9.

The conference will take the form of a panel discussion of six invited guests (in alphabetical order):

Lenka Kovačevičová (Mayor of Košice - Nad jazerom Municipality; representing the Association of Towns and Cities of Slovakia) Jaroslav Polaček (Mayor of Košice) Richard Rybníček (President of the Union of Cities) Radomír Šalitroš (State Secretary at the Ministry of Investment, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic) Rastislav Trnka (Chairman of the Košice Self-Governing Region) Jozef Viskupič (Chairman of the Association of Self-Governing Regions of Slovakia SK8)