As nationalistic laws go, the one just passed in Slovakia seems rather tame on the surface. Earlier this month, the Slovak parliament approved a “patriotic act” mandating that every school play the ...

Slovak President Andrej Kiska has vetoed a controversial law banning foreign national anthems at public events, his office said in a statement on Thursday. Ethnic Hungarian MPs who said they had voted ...

Traditionally, a presidential veto is seen as a sign that the president is overriding the wishes of the country’s lawmakers. But in outgoing Slovak President Andrej Kiska’s case, to veto a law that a ...

Slovakia's nationalist government on Wednesday presented a new arrangement of the country's anthem designed to "boost national pride", but the project has raised eyebrows over its cost and value. The ...

According to SME.sk (SLO), a draft bill by the Slovak National Party (SNS) will introduce “obligatory patriotism” in Slovakia beginning April 1: […] It is Monday morning. In every state-run […] school ...

Sochi hasn’t exactly inspired Nike to create the awe-inspiring Olympic hockey jerseys. We had the cheap-looking star field of the American sweaters. The flag-as-jersey of the Czech Republic. And of ...

Slovakia’s men’s hockey team is taking national pride to another level at the Sochi Olympics. Its jerseys, released Tuesday, include not only the national colors, but also the words of the nation’s ...

Hockey Slovakia revealed on Wednesday the uniform that its team will wear in the men’s tournament of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and at international tournaments beyond. The Slovak association ...

ONE of the foreign media's favourite questions to ask Slovaks in 2004 was: "How does it feel to be in the European Union?" This is an enigmatic question, to say the least, and one to which I long ...