Slovakia News

It is often referred to as Slovak Rome.

Even indirect engagement in politics is not adequate for clerics, they wrote.

Slovakia’s economic growth slowed in the third quarter, flash estimates from the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic (Štatistický úrad Slovenskej republiky or SÚSR) revealed.

Sociologist Jan Hartl set up Czechoslovakia’s first modern-day polling
agency, STEM, in 1990 and has been closely monitoring domestic politics and
society ever since. When we spoke, the conversation took in Czech

The organisers and participants stressed the importance of the 2020 general election.

After attending commemorations in Prague earlier on Sunday, Czech Prime
Minister Andrej Babiš flew to Slovakia to honour the victims of communism.
The ceremony took place at the Freedom Gate memorial near the Slovak castle

Has the country survived the abductions of the state, the inoculation of Mečiar, Fico governments and the Kočner underworld without harm to democracy?

At the opening ceremony of a new exhibition on Czech and Slovak history,
including the Velvet Revolution at the National Museum on Sunday, Czech
Prime Minister Andrej Babis gave a speech in which he called the Velvet

Josef Hasil, also known as the "King of Šumava" due to his role
as a people smuggler for those who were trying to cross the tightly guarded
Czechoslovak-German border after the onset of communism, died in the United
States on Saturday at the age of 95.

Part of SNP Square, where mass rallies against the communist regime took place 30 years ago, has been named after the Velvet Revolution.