Mayors of the region met in the town of Gabčíkovo (Bős) to negotiate the formation of a local government association which would operate as a support organisation for the use of the Hungarian language in state administration.

A public hearing on EU citizenship took place at the meeting of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs on 19 February.

Slovak Members of the European Parliament Pál Csáky (Party of the Hungarian Community, SMK-MKP) and Ivan Štefanec (Christian Democratic Movement, KDH) have called on the Slovak Government to take the resolution of the matter of the waste disposal

Ethnic Hungarian spiritual leaders from Slovakia attended the conference on the role of the mother tongue in the churches’ life — which was held at the building of the European Parliament

Given the results of the November 4 regional elections, the non-parliamentary Hungarian Community Party (SMK-MKP) should surely be taken into account in the next general elections in 2020, reads a statement of the SMK

The governing party of Hungary, Fidesz, is the most popular Hungarian party among the ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia; most of them sympathise with the Hungarian Government, moreover, the s

Potential election cooperation between ethnic-Hungarian SMK-MKP party and opposition OLaNO party is an open question at this stage, SMK-MKP chair Jozsef Menyhart told TASR (News Agency of the Slovak Republic).

When it is politics, as if the number of the supporters of the two parties, namely the SMK-MKP and Most-Híd, was exactly the same among ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia; although they consid

The current issues of education, the economic situation of southern regions, and minority cultural grants came to the fore at the annual conference of the Roundtable of Hungarians in Slov

The Hungarian Standing Conference (MÁÉRT — a forum for regular consultation between the Hungarian Government, the Hungarian parliamentary parties and and the organisations of ethnic Hunga

The Party of the Hungarian Community (SMKMKP) firmly rejected the direct intervention of the Department of State Language of the Ministry of Culture — as a state administration body — in the campaign for regional elections.

The Party of the Hungarian Community (SMKMKP) expressed its satisfaction with the fact that Slovakia is ‘backtracking’ from the lawsuit launched at the Luxembourg court against the Minority SafePack initiative on minority protection which it recen

A cross-border bridge connecting these two countries over the Danube River – through the towns of Komárno and Komárom – will fill the gap and insufficient capacity.

The Slovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially confirmed to the Party of the Hungarian Community (SMK-MKP) that Slovakia joined, on the side of Romania, the lawsuit launched at the Luxembourg court in the aim of undermining the Minority SafePac

A total of 2,002 people have lost their Slovak passports under the State Citizenship Act in the more than seven years since it took effect on July 17, 2010, according to statistics published by the Slovak Interior Ministry on Saturday.

The digital learning materials, called IKATIKA, are tested from October to December. The program is specifically intended to help develop the skills of ethnic Hungarian, Ruthenian and Roma pre-school children and pre-prep pupils.

If a general election had taken place in the past two months, it would have been won by the senior governing party Smer-SD on 27.5 percent, ahead of the Opposition Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) party on 15.5 percent and the co-governing Slovak Nati

In recent days, several local authorities, offices and institutions in South Slovakia received a letter from the Department of State Language of the Ministry of Culture.

‘Education in the mother tongue is the most significant guarantee of the prosperity of people in their homeland, and the Ukrainian Government is planning to deny them this opportunity’, Árpád János Potápi, the State Secretary for National Policy a

The representatives of the political organisations and organisations of pedagogues of Hungarians in Ukraine and in Slovakia, and the representatives of the Governments of Hungary and Slovakia attended the new school year opening ceremony, includin