Jurzyca: Principles will remain

Minister, despite the call of the majority of sports federations, refused to stop the reform Sports reform starts from the back. Eugen Jurzyca believes his successor will not change the new financing principles.

Most sports federations called on the Minister of Education to stop the mechanism of redistributing money under the new financing reform, but Eugen Jurzyca refused. “I am convinced it will help Slovak sport,” he declared. The minister launched the reform by publishing a call for the distribution of more than a third of this year’s subsidies worth eleven million euros, leaving his successor with an almost empty budget. (...)

The thesis of the group – aiming for “the greatest achievements in the most popular sports, which should receive the greatest state support” – was described by the executive committee of the Slovak Olympic Committee as “naive, unsuitable for Slovakia, and suspiciously convenient for its authors.” The group appointed by the minister was led by football agent Jozef Tokos, tennis general secretary Igor Moška, hockey coach Ján Filc, and canoe slalom manager Richard Galovič. The core of the team consisted of those who had prepared the 2005 Viktória project, among whom, from his position in the third sector, was today’s minister himself. (...)