SLOVAKIA:  Playing the Anti-Hungarian Card
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PRAGUE, Oct 15 (IPS) - Following months of strained ties with Hungary,  Slovakia's government looks increasingly isolated after  parliament approved a resolution hostile to the country's  Hungarian minority.
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The state budget for the year 2005 was approved by Parliament. According to the Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda, Slovakia's step forward will be stabilized and peaceful.
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BRATISLAVA- Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic said that he did not believe there was a need for any new agreements between Slovakia and the Czech Republic on the rules for crossing the joint border, he said at a ...
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BUDAPEST, Nov 29 (IPS) - In an embarrassing development for Hungary, Sweden  has for the past weeks received a growing number of asylum  applications from mostly ethnic Roma citizens who complain of  discrimination in the fellow European Union (EU) member state.
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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Aug 27 (IPS) - Government reforms and cuts in social benefits have  been blamed for fuelling poverty in Slovakia after an EU study  showed more than a fifth of Slovaks living in poverty.
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Events in Ukraine continue to dominate the European papers. A Budapest daily takes everyone to task over the invalidated referendum on citizenship for ethnic Hungarians abroad. Two German dailies comment on Mr Schroeder's visit to China. And in France a sniffer dog forgets to sniff!
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By Simon EvansBUDAPEST - Hungary's anti-government protests entered their second week on Monday but appeared to be fading in strength as more conventional politics come to the fore ahead of Sunday's local ...Comment
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Hungary&#39;s new prime minister looked to have scored a major victory on Sunday when the opposition failed to garner enough votes to pass a referendum giving citizenship to millions of Hungarians abroad.
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PRAGUE- Czechs and Slovaks have been more and more supporting their countries' independence, and their views of the arrangement of Czech-Slovak relations have profoundly changed over the past twelve years, a ...
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Kota Kinabalu: The Slovak Republic has been making great strides since breaking free from communism and becoming a separate State in 1993, according to its newly-elected President Ivan Gasparovic.
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Two summers ago, I returned from a visit to Eastern Europe convinced that Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic were on the fast track to prosperity. It seemed to me -- and virtually every one of the Western business executives I spoke with -- that these countries had tasted enough of...
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Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's  blunt admission he lied to win an election has sparked outrage,  riots and a race to claim a website over his comments.
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US Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, who visited Slovakia on September 14 said, following a meeting with PM Mikulas Dzurinda, that the US did not take Slovakia's military presence in Iraq and ...
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TRNAVA, Slovakia  - As Europe's car manufacturing has shifted from west to east in the past decade, Slovakia has earned a reputation as a Detroit in the heart of Europe.
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PRAGUE, Jan 26 (IPS) - The possibility of Kosovo gaining independence has  sparked a debate in minorities-ridden central-eastern Europe on  whether the Serbian region could set a precedent in prioritising  the right to self-determination over state sovereignty.
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"Fateless," a film based on the novel by 2002 Nobel Literature Prize winner Imre Kertesz which premieres next week, could help Hungary finally face up to the anti-Semitism of its past.
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BUDAPEST, Jun 14 (IPS) - Right-wing extremism is on the rise in Slovakia.  Activists complain not enough is being done, while from Europe  fingers are pointed at the left-wing government's  controversial alliance with extreme-right nationalists.