slovakia | Visegrád Post

News

V4 countries heading towards closer military cooperation

The Editorial Board October 18, 2021

Visegrád Group – On 13-14 October, the chiefs of staff of the Visegrád Four – generals Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi (Hungary), Rajmund T. Andrzejczak (Poland), Daniel Zmeko (Slovakia), and Aleš Opata (Czechia) – met in Balatonakarattya on the shores of Lake Balaton, Hungary, where…

News

Viktor Orbán celebrates Slovak–Hungarian friendship in Esztergom

The Editorial Board October 15, 2021

Hungary/Slovakia – Slovak–Hungarian friendship is a recurring theme in the public statements of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who never misses an opportunity to celebrate it. He did so again on 11 October in Esztergom, where he met his Slovakian counterpart Eduard…

Magyar Nemzet

Will the seeds sprout?

Partenaire September 29, 2021

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 29 September 2021. We believed, with reason, in 2006 that we had reached a turning point in Slovak-Hungarian relations through our common Catholic faith. The presidency of each country’s Bishop’s Conferences signed…

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…

Interviews

George Simion: “Germany now controls a big part of our internal and external affairs”

Ferenc Almássy September 19, 2021

George Simion, President of the Romanian patriotic party AUR: "Regarding the Visegrád Group, we have the same history, we have the same interests, and we will have the same future. We cannot rely on Germany, which now controls a big part of…

News

Central Europe takes stand against illegal immigration

The Editorial Board September 10, 2021

Central Europe – Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš played host to Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Slovakian Prime Minister Eduard Heger at Lednice Castle near Břeclav in southern Moravia on Tuesday, September 7. The risk of a new migration crisis was on…

News

Papal visit to Slovakia with separate areas for the unvaccinated

The Editorial Board September 8, 2021

Slovakia – After a short half-day visit to Hungary for the closure of the International Eucharistic Congress on Sunday 12 September, during which Pope Francis will meet, among others, with Hungarian President János Áder and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the Museum…

News

Greece fires: Central Europe sends aid

The Editorial Board August 16, 2021

Greece/Central Europe – Faced with a large number of forest fires since the end of July, Greece – like Turkey and Albania – has appealed for European assistance. In solidarity with the Greeks, Polish, Czech and Slovak firefighters are already on the…

News

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…

News

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

Holy walls tainted with the color of blood

Partenaire August 5, 2021

This article was published online by the Magyar Nemzet on 5, August 2021. Bratislava’s historic city center, with its genuine Central European atmosphere, is easily walkable. The Gothic Cathedral of St. Martin, the coronation church of the Hungarian kings, is located in…

News

Czechia: Babiš “promises” that the vaccine will not be mandatory

The Editorial Board July 30, 2021

Czechia – Whilst the Greeks, Germans, French, Italians and Latvians have recently started to foresee such a move, the Czech prime minister, Andrej Babiš, during a visit to the Hradec Králové region in north-eastern Bohemia on Thursday 22 July, announced that COVID-19…