Budapest, June 2 (MTI) – A Hungarian-Slovak team of investigators has uncovered a 19-member international gang that smuggled illegal migrants from Greece to western Europe, the website police.hu said on Thursday. Proceedings are under way against a Slovak citizen named…
Within the next few decades the Hungarian language will become much less present in the Carpathian Basin and most of the trans-border Hungarian communities will disappear, unless the language consciously gets developed, reports magyaridok.hu. The adaption of an effective language…
According to turizmusonline.hu, the Novohrad-Nógrád Geopark was enlisted as a World Heritage on the list of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). The park is a beloved destination of tourists, school groups and families and its huge area…
Index.hu writes that the Slovakian customs officers were checking cars close to the Medve – Vámosszabadi border crossing point when, not too long after midnight, they decided to start following four cars going very closely and then, stopped them at…
Pozsony (MTI) – The terrorist attacks committed in Paris and Brussels have clearly proved that terrorism took advantage of migration targeting Europe, Defence Minister István Simicskó said at Globsec 2016, central Europe’s most significant foreign affairs and security policy conference,…
Bratislava, April 15 (MTI) – Europe is facing the most severe security challenges since WW2 and the response to them must be uniform and resolute, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Friday. Szijjártó addressed the Globsec 2016 conference in Bratislava,…
Budapest, April 13 (MTI) – Slovakia and Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder will be the guests of honour at this year’s Budapest International Book Festival held between April 21 and 24, an organiser said. Slovakia will present the Hungarian edition of…
Budapest (MTI) – The government has again put on its agenda compensation for Hungarian nationals who were expelled from southern Czechoslovakia under the principle of collective guilt in 1945, Pál Völner, state secretary at the justice ministry, said on Saturday.…
Budapest, April 1 (MTI) – Keeping Hungarian workers in the Carpathian Basin is crucial for the region in the long run, House Speaker László Kövér said at Friday’s plenary session of the forum representing lawmakers from the Carpathian Basin (KMKF)…
The American high-tech research company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) had reached an agreement with the government of Slovakia to build a local hyperloop system on Thursday, the forbes.com reports. If all three governments make their agreement with HTT the Budapest-Bratislava-Vienna…
Budapest, March 13 (MTI) – Slovakia’s failure to rehabilitate János Esterházy, a martyred leader of Slovakia’s ethnic Hungarian community, damages the reputation of the Slovak state and should be amended, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Gergely Gulyás said in Budapest on…
A couple of years ago Slovakians used to cross the border and work in Hungary, but this trend has just turned around; more and more Hungarians choose to work in Slovakia where the salary is higher and the work environment…
Komarno, Slovakia, February 23 (MTI) – A senior Hungarian government official discussed the situation of Hungarian schools facing closure in southern Slovakia in Komarom (Révkomárom) on Tuesday. János Árpad Potápi, the state secretary for ethnic Hungarian communities abroad, held talks…
Prague, February 15 (MTI) – The Visegrad Four countries of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia want a strong Europe without dividing lines, according to a joint statement issued by the prime ministers in the group at a 25th…
Brussels/Amsterdam, February 6 (MTI) – The outcome of a forthcoming meeting of the Visegrad Group plus Macedonia and Bulgaria could provide the solution to Europe’s migrant crisis, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told MTI on Saturday. Attending the closing session of…
Budapest (MTI) – Hungarians do not find the neighbouring countries antipathic, a recent survey issued by Nezopont Institute on Monday showed. Most respondents said that Hungary maintained good relations with the majority of its neighbours. More than half of the…
Prague, January 19 (MTI) – Representatives of the Visegrad Four (V4) countries agreed at a meeting in Prague on Tuesday that Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland will remain opposed to mandatory refugee quotas. Hungary’s ambassador to the Czech…
Budapest, January 19 (MTI) – Hungarian President Janos Ader and his Slovak counterpart, Andrej Kiska, paid tribute to the victims of a Slovak military plane crash that occurred in north-eastern Hungary, near the Slovak border, nine years ago. Forty-two people…
In the past 8 years since there’s an open border between Hungary and Slovakia, approximately 5000 people have moved from Bratislava, Slovakia, to Hungarian border cities. Most of them, around 2500, are living in Rajka, but there are Slovakians even…
Budapest, December 21 (MTI) – A Slovak police unit dispatched to help Hungarian forces in patrolling the Hungarian-Serbian border in an effort to stem the massive influx of migrants has concluded its mission and will return home. In a ceremony…