Slovakia

Since at least 2008, the scandal-ridden[i] Slovak Land Fund has been carrying out ethnically-based land grabs(Kovacs, 2022) on behalf of the state on the legal basis of the WWII-era Beneš Decrees[ii]. The private property of hundreds of citizen in current-day … Read More

UPDATED: After a thorough analysis of the decision of the General Court of the European Union from 9 November 2022 in the case of the Minority SafePack Initiative vs the European Commission, the MSPI’s Citizens’ Committee and the FUEN Presidium took … Read More

The Hungarian Human Rights Foundation is deeply saddened by the December 30 passing of Dr. Miklós Duray, the twice-imprisoned human rights activist, internationally recognized dissident, and signer of Charta ’77 in Czechoslovakia; towering leader of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia … Read More

“Alliance brought an unexpected result, compared to the forecasts, we achieved a much better result,” said its president, Krisztián Forró. On October 29, 2022, Slovakia held county and municipal elections in which Alliance (Szövetség, in Hungarian) achieved historic success. The … Read More

In January, HHRF reported on the published data of the Slovak 2021 Census, in which two separate survey questions had been posed as regards ethnic affiliation. Now, the Slovak government has decided to add answers from the second survey question … Read More

“The problems of minorities affect the lives of all of us,” said President Zuzana Čaputová after a meeting with representatives of ethnic minorities living in Slovakia. “As we progress towards equality in this country we need to make sure that … Read More

The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) recently issued a report on the Beneš Decrees, which discriminates against ethnic Hungarians, and is still enforced in Slovakia. The report highlights the importance of citizen activism in regards to the issue, “The … Read More

On Monday, May 23, Emese Latkóczy and Petra Kovács of the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation met with EP MEP Loránt Vincze of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania in Washington D.C., where they led meetings with Congressional and State … Read More

The Slovak Statistical Office has published the data gathered on answers to the two questions on nationality in the 2021 census. When answering the first question 422,000 inhabitants of the country declared themselves to be of Hungarian ethnicity. However, an … Read More