Slovakia

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

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

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