By Gilles Guillaume PARIS (Reuters) – PSA Peugeot Citroen plans to build its next C3 compact model in Slovakia instead of France, sources close to the French carmaker told Reuters on Thursday. “They’re starting technical operations on the new Citroen model in the coming weeks… it’s going to be in Eastern Europe, in Trnava,” one source close to the matter told Reuters. Two other sources close to the car group confirmed that a decision had been made to produce the future C3 in Slovakia, where the company already builds the C3 Picasso multi-purpose vehicle and the Peugeot 208. PSA Chief Executive Carlos Tavares and his predecessor Philippe Varin have repeatedly said it was no longer viable to produce mass-market small cars in France because tough competition meant prices on such models were too low to cover the production costs.