The Czech Academy of Sciences and the Institute for the Study of
Totalitarian regimes have cooperated on a book just out tracing the fate of
the close to 300 people who were killed trying to flee from communist
Slovakia's foreign ministry has accused the Greek ambassador to Bratislava of meddling in the country's internal affairs over his criticism of Prime Minister Robert Fico's anti-migrant stance in the election campaign.
Tomas G. Masaryk, considered the founder of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, was born March 7, 1850, in Hodonin, Moravia, then part of the Austrian Empire. The city is now in the southeast of the Czech Republic , along the border with Slovakia .
Greece is at risk of becoming one giant refugee hotspot. The closure of its northern border and the continued influx of refugees from Turkey has placed Athens in a critical situation.
Bratislava: Slovakia's president said on Monday he will ask Prime Minister Robert Fico to try to form a new government, after Fico's leftist Smer party won the most votes but lost its parliamentary majority in Saturday's election.
The only funny moment following the Slovak elections last Saturday came during a television debate when a group of experts had to decide whether to describe newly-elected members of the extreme-right People's Party-Our Slovakia as extremists or neo-Nazis.
Around 2000 people gathered on Monday in Bratislava and Banská Bystrica to express their dissatisfaction and protest against the extremist ultra-right party of Marián Kotleba, the People´s Party Our Slovakia (ĽSNS), which will occupy 14 parliamentary seats in the newly elected Slovak parliament.
