Slovakia: Ukraine’s WTO complaint against grain import ban is unfounded
Slovakia says it will maintain its ban on Ukrainian grains
Zelensky: Ukraine will respond in ‘civilized manner’ to Poland, Hungary and Slovakia’s grain bans
Ukraine is already planning to sue Hungary, Poland and Slovakia
The EU believes the war in Ukraine could last 4 more years, says Hungary’s foreign minister
Slovakia contends Hungary’s foreign minister is lying about the potential length of the war
Romania and Slovakia lodge complaints against Orbán’s speech referring to ‘territories torn from Hungary’
Both countries summoned the Hungarian ambassador to address their concerns
Hungary’s PM Orbán: There is a solution to the migrant crisis but the EU is unwilling to implement it
All migration entry requests should be processed outside the EU, says Orbán
Slovak civil service begged Brussels to intervene in upcoming election, opposition leader Fico claims
According to Smer party leader Robert Fico, an entourage of civil servants and NGO members called on EU and NATO officials to help stop his party from winning in September
Election favorite Fico tells Czech politicians to respect Slovak sovereignty and stay out of the country’s internal affairs
The Czech president and foreign minister had expressed concerns about Fico’s call to withdraw Slovak support for Ukraine should he return to power
US soldiers detained for brawling in Slovakia supermarket to be recalled from their posts
The U.S. embassy in Slovakia described the incident as “an inexcusable display of disrespect towards the Slovak police and the community”
Slovakia to have first-ever Hungarian-born PM
Lajos Ódor was born in Hungary but will lead an interim technocrat government in Slovakia
EU caves in Ukrainian grain battle, allows 5 member states to temporarily ban imports
Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia have been permitted to ban Ukrainian grain imports until June 5
Russia must be driven into submission or Europe risks further bloodshed, warn Polish, Slovak and Czech PMs
Only a comprehensive Ukrainian victory will ensure the future security of Europe, write Petr Fiala, Eduard Heger and Mateusz Morawiecki in a joint article for the U.S. magazine Foreign Affairs
EU offers Central Europe €100 million to ease Ukrainian grain dumping crisis
Ursula von der Leyen said the EU needs a common solution instead of national-level bans
‘Morally and financially exhausted’ – Slovakia doesn’t have any more capacity to aid Ukraine
Popular support for helping Ukraine is lessening in Slovakia, President Čaputová said
Slovakia to get discount on US attack helicopters for giving its MiG jet fleet to Ukraine
Slovakia’s opposition says the move to give Ukraine Slovakia’s MiG jets is unconstitutional
Democracy? Slovakia’s decision to send jets to Ukraine rejected by majority of Slovaks
The will of the Slovak people is being subverted by a government that some argue should not even be legally able to send weapons to Ukraine
Slovakia follows Poland’s lead by pledging entire fleet of MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine
Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger said his government is on “the right side of history” after the announcement on Friday
Could Czechia be about to leave the Visegrád Group?
Czechia’s President-elect Petr Pavel claims Hungary’s neutrality on the Ukrainian issue is a “fundamental problem” for the Visegrád Four
Slovak foreign minister claims Hungarians are ‘Putin’s allies’ in renewed attack
Slovakia’s Kácer flings curses at Hungary’s leader
EU parliament is one the ‘world’s most corrupt organizations,’ says Hungarian foreign minister
Péter Szijjártó accused the European Parliament of doing its utmost to isolate Hungary
Hungary would annex Slovakian territory if Russia won in Ukraine, claims Slovak minister
The state secretary for bilateral relations at the Hungarian Foreign Ministry called the comments “unacceptable, nonsensical lies”
Slovak PM and Orbán bury hatchet on football scarf issue
The Hungarian PM now has a Slovakian football scarf
Four more neighbors of Hungary decry Orbán’s ‘Greater Hungary’ football scarf
Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, and Croatia expressed various degrees of anger
Another sign Europe’s conservative alliance between Hungary, Poland, and Czechia is dead
Conservatives across Europe are split over the war in Ukraine, with the Visegrád Four (V4) increasingly looking like an alliance only in name
‘I’ve had enough of what Volodymyr Zelensky is doing’ – Former Slovak PM slams government support of EU sanctions on Russia
Former premier Robert Fico also had some choice words for the Ukrainian president
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Womanizing politician creates nationalistic distraction from his scandalous private life
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The government of Eduard Heger puts its loyalties towards NATO allies over the security of its own citizens
Slovakian far-right party leader loses parliamentary mandate following Supreme Court appeal
Kotleba was prosecuted in a case where he apparently promoted neo-Nazism
Slovakia to make Russian gas payments in rubles
“I have to provide energy for the Slovak economy,” notes Slovakia’s economy minister Richard Sulík
Slovakia’s former vice-rector of the military academy passed sensitive NATO information to the Russian secret services
One individual has been accused of passing information to Russia’s military intelligence service since 2013
Slovakia expels three Russian embassy staff; reports of arrests over espionage suspicions
The action will not go unanswered, warns Russia
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Slovakia’s liberal leaders want to place NATO’s frontline with Russia on their territory, yet most citizens not only reject NATO troops in their country but also support neutrality or even back Russia’s actions in Ukraine
Slovaks set up camps for potential asylum seekers from Ukraine
If necessary, Slovakia might build control and registration centers at the border
Why is Slovakia’s media scaremongering about a Hungarian military invasion?
Two months before the Hungarian elections, signs of information hybrid warfare are emerging — this time with serious Slovak media outlets publishing wild claims that Hungary will invade the country
Slovak president to ratify US defense agreement with one condition
“I do not think that the treaty threatens the Slovak Republic in any way, quite the contrary,” President Čaputová said
Slovak interior ministry shredded files of communist secret police meant for National Memory Institute
The shredded files were a significant historical testimony to the period of communist oppression, says a Slovak MP
Slovak parliament’s speaker calls for child bullies to be sent to correctional facilities following brutal attack of 11-year-old girl
The highly-publicized attack by three children on an 11-year-old girl has sent shockwaves across Slovakia
Norwegian aluminum group may move to Hungary from Slovakia
The company wants higher energy subsidies from the Slovak budget
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The country’s radical leftist party saw an intelligence report on far-left extremism and believed that they were under surveillance. The problem is that they were very wrong.
Slovakia to enter a two-week-long lockdown
Slovak hospitals are overcrowded and new Covid-19 cases break records
Slovak president calls for nationwide lockdown
Slovakia plunges into crisis
Migrants may try route through Ukraine, Slovakia, and Czechia
Maps describing different routes into Europe are being shared in Arabic on social media
Slovakia to tighten rules for unvaccinated, ban them from shops
Of the total number of covid patients in Slovak hospitals, only 20 percent are fully vaccinated
Slovakia’s conservatives step up fight against abortion despite international pressure
International NGOs tied to the Open Society Funds are up in arms against any tightening of abortion laws in Slovakia
Taiwanese foreign minister‘s visit to Czechia angers China
China expressed “strong dissatisfaction” with the visit
Slovak army’s low vaccination rate criticized by defense minister
Slovakia’s defense minister critiques his own army while pointing to the Czech army’s much higher vaccination rate
Pope Francis calls for ‘dialogue and solidarity’ in Slovakia
Pope Francis, who had been on a four-day visit to Slovakia since Sunday, left the country on Wednesday afternoon
Pope Francis begins his visit to Slovakia
The head of the Catholic Church warns against internal slavery in his first speech in Slovakia
Slovakia ends blanket coronavirus measures
Slovakia will no longer apply national measures, only regional ones, if the epidemic worsens
Liberal Slovak politician goes on a rant about post-WWII deportations of Hungarian civilians
Politician is hoping to earn points with Hungarian-bashing
Tornado sweeps through a village in Eastern Slovakia
Damage was reported to four family houses, a tornado carrying away the roofs
The vaccination lottery starts in Slovakia
From Sunday evening, Slovaks can register for the drawing, the first of which will take place on August 15
Liberal Slovak government MPs are keen to please Brussels
Liberal MPs fighting for LGBTQ rights do not think gay people have a right to privacy
Riot police intervene against crowd of protesters in the center of Bratislava
Several hundred people demanded the abolition of anti-pandemic measures, which they say divide Slovaks into two categories
Former Slovak PM Matovič receives the first dose of Sputnik V vaccine
It was Matovič who pushed for the importation of the Russian vaccine to Slovakia
Slovakia approves an amendment favoring those vaccinated
The advantages will be smaller than originally intended by Minister of Health Vladimír Lengvarský
Commuters block border crossing between Czechia and Slovakia
Beginning in September, PCR tests will cost Slovak commuters 560 euros a month
Outside pressure forges ties between Visegrád countries
The Visegrád Four (Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland) are interested in each other’s success, stability and rise, said Zsolt Németh, head of the Hungarian Parliament’s foreign affairs committee
Slovakia does not intend to ease the conditions of entry into the country, says Health Minister
Entrepreneurs complain about loss of tourists from abroad