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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oh, baby, this is the stuff,” wrote the sports website Bleacher Report in praise of the Slovak national ice hockey team’s jerseys for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Milan–Cortina. With less than two ...

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 ...

BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - Slovakia's parliament on Tuesday passed a softened version of legislation meant to boost national pride, dropping clauses that raised an outcry in a central European nation with ...