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Czechia and Slovakia: Thirty years of a successful divorce

The Editorial Board January 3, 2023

Czechia/Slovakia – On 1 January 1993, three years after the Velvet Revolution, which put an end to almost 42 years of communist rule in Czechoslovakia, the two constituent peoples of that binational state, originally founded in October 1918 and reconstituted in April…

Magyar Nemzet

Historical confrontation, Slovak-style

Partenaire September 28, 2021

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 28 September 2021. Did you hear that the Slovak government apologized for the infamous Beneš Decrees that violated the human rights and freedoms of their own citizens of Hungarian descent, expressing their…

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László Kövér casts a shadow over Slovak–Hungarian relations

The Editorial Board August 9, 2021

Hungary/Slovakia – Just over a month ago, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Slovakian counterpart Eduard Heger proclaimed at the Carmelite Convent in Budapest that “relations between Hungary and Slovakia have never been so good”. However, repeated incidents that open up…

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Czech Republic: Forcibly sterilized Roma women to be compensated

The Editorial Board August 6, 2021

Czech Republic – On Tuesday 3 August, Czech President Miloš Zeman signed into law a bill approved by the Senate on 22 July, according to which Roma women who were forcibly – and illegally – sterilized in the Czech Republic under the…

Magyar Nemzet

Their only sin was being Hungarian

Partenaire April 12, 2021

This article has been published online by the Magyar Nemzet on April 12, 2021. For the thousands driven from Upper Hungary, the EU has not brought justice. In 2012 the Hungarian Parliament unanimously voted to make April 12th the Memorial Day commemorating…

Politics

100 years of Czech(-oslovak) autonomy. Our national mantra should reflect the sovereignty

Jiří Hanuš October 27, 2018

By Jiří Hanuš, professor of history at Masaryk University and member of the Board of directors at Pravý břeh. Czechia - Although our small nation gained state sovereignty in 1918 - on October 28, ed. -, it slipped away from our…

Society

Czechs and Slovaks “closer than ever”

The Editorial Board September 28, 2016

The Czech and Slovak governments met for a joint working session in Bratislava on Monday to discuss the state of bilateral ties, cooperation in security and defense and their position on key European issues. Twenty-three years after the Velvet Divorce, the two…

Society

A compensation for the Czechoslovakia expellees in 1945 on the Hungarian agenda

The Editorial Board April 12, 2016

Hungary, Budapest – the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Justice Pál Völner declared that the government is committed to take compensatory measures for Hungarians expelled from Czechoslovakia from May to June 1945, because of the principle of “collective guilt” after…