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3. Social Policy
The basic objective of Government's social policy is to provide the population with such social programmes that will guarantee the maintenance and development of human, economic, social, and cultural rights leading to a dignified living standard for every human being. The social policy system will be set up in such a way that it is socially just, transparent, financially sustainable, and so that it ensures equal opportunities. The Government's priorities include, besides initiating the knowledge economy and prosperity, also making the reform changes socially bearable, achieving social stability, and maintaining social peace. All corrections and changes to the present social system will be carried out with this objective in mind, particularly eliminating its non-systematic, destabilising and discriminating elements.
When formulating its social policies, the Government will rely, in particular, on the European social and legal culture and, to the fullest extent, it will respect the links of social processes to the European and global processes. The basis, therefore, will be the international commitments in the social area stemming from the Slovak Republic's membership in the European Union, the United Nations, and especially in the International Labour Organisation and in the Council of Europe. Guarantees of social and economic rights will be strengthened by ratifying additional international treaties.
The Government, in connection with the revised EU Lisbon Strategy, will enforce compliance with social rights as laid down by the European Social Charter; in this respect, it will examine the possibilities of ratifying the revised European Social Charter and the European Code of Social Security.
