Slovakia

A delegation from the Hungarian Community Association met with Education Ministry State Secretary,  Mónika Filip, on April 1st. Just two weeks into the job, the ethnic Hungarian official’s portfolio includes education in minority languages. Ms. Filip told Felvidek.ma on April 5 that one of her first steps … Read More

For the first time since Slovakia gained independence, Hungarians, the country’s largest national minority, will not have any parliamentary representation. Neither of the two ethnic Hungarian coalitions met the five percent threshold in the parliamentary elections on Sunday, February 29.  The Union … Read More

Hundreds of millions of euros worth of state tax revenue has been lost, and promises to be lost, to southern Slovakia, including Hungarian-inhabited settlements, due to the disproportionate funding of local governments, said Péter Őry chairman of the Hungarian Community Party at a news conference on January 28. The disadvantage stems … Read More

For the fourth year running, the Hungarian Community Party (MKP)  filed another complaint to the regulatory body of the Slovak Public Media Service and the State Prosecutor for failing to uphold the law that proscribes proportionate hours of minority language programming on public … Read More

Taroltak az ellenzéki pártok és a jobboldali Egyszerű Emberek és Független Személyiségek (OLaNO) nyerte a nyolcadik szlovákiai parlamenti választást, megelőzve a távozó kormány legerősebb pártját a Robert Fico vezette, Irány – Szociáldemokráciát (Smer-SD), magyar képviselet pedig nem jutott be a … Read More

The Hungarian community in Slovakia needs to succeed in the February 29 parliamentary elections and again have representation in the legislature, said the leader of Hungarian Community Association (MKÖ), Gyula Bárdos.  Heading the list of candidates in the new alliance, Bárdos emphasized that the inequality gap of the country’s … Read More

On February 5, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium, representatives of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) and the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) presented legislation proposals to the European Commission for the Minority SafePack Initiative. The Minority SafePack … Read More

9/19/2019 Leaders of the Hungarian Coalition Party (MKP) announced of September 19 that they had exceeded the minimum number of signatures required to petition the government on use of Hungarian minority symbols. The initiative was launched April 12, the Day … Read More

A total of 1,425 people, among them 71 Hungarians, have lost their Slovak passports under the State Citizenship Act during the six years since the law went into effect on July 17, 2010, according to statistics published by the Slovak … Read More