Slovaks

The Slovaks (Slovak: Slováci, singular: Slovák, feminine: Slovenka, plural: Slovenky) are a West Slavic ethnic group and nation native to Slovakia who share a common ancestry, culture, history and speak the Slovak language. In Slovakia, c. 4.4 million are ethnic Slovaks of 5.4 million total population. There are Slovak minorities in many neighboring countries including Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine and sizeable populations of immigrants and their descendants in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, United Kingdom and the United States among others, which are collectively referred to as the Slovak diaspora.

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Freedom House · 4 April 2024 English

In Bosnia The only country among the Hybrid Regimes with an and Herzegovina, the recriminalization of defamation by improved Democracy Score was Ukraine, which continued the Republika Srpska entity in …

rebuilding their order, while also appealing to Slovaks’ relative openness toward democracy by ousting


OSCE: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe · 4 March 2024 English

LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND ELECTORAL SYSTEM Parliamentary elections are primarily governed by the 1992 Constitution, the 2014 Act on the Conditions for the Exercise of the Right to Vote and on …

Affairs' 2020 study indicated that 50 per cent of Slovaks think that women are underrepresented in the national


The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia · 28 February 2024 English

SERBIA: GEOPOLITICAL AND VALUES-BASED ALIGNMENT HELSINKI COMMITTEE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN SERBIA Serbia: Geopolitical and Values-Based REPORT OF THE HELSINKI Alignment COMMITTEE 2023. [...] The contents of this publication are …

emigration of minority groups (Hungarians, Croats Slovaks…) to their home countries or other European countries


ESI: European Stability Initiative · 22 February 2024 English

“We didn’t know the first days what would happen, and we were a little scared of how the system would react … The solution was to play the role of …

nationalism started to show its face. At first, some Slovaks demanded a stronger role within the federal state according to all opinion polls both Czechs and Slovaks were against a split – Meciar engineered the break-up Prague. 1998 was the only historical event when the Slovaks had to fulfil their own task, their own duty. Slovakia self-confidence, which for this nation was crucial. However, Slovaks don’t remember 1998 as the crucial moment that battle for the future of central Europe. And the Slovaks did their job. It was absolutely crucial.” ◼ Simecka


EU: European Union · 8 February 2024 English

The EESC "Connecting EU" seminar is an event for communication professionals working for civil society organisations representing employers, workers and other social, professional and cultural organisations across Europe. Every year, …

and work for labour mobility in Europe. We want Slovaks to be proud of being home to a European institution


EU: European Union · 22 December 2023 English

‘O Slovensku a Slovákoch’ [On Slovakia and the Slovaks]: ‘Borovička producers and oil merchants usually ‘Etnografia Slovákov v Uhorsku’ [Ethnography of Slovaks in Hungary], Čaplovič writes: ‘In Trenčín County


ELIAMEP: Hellenic Foundation For European and Foreign Policy · 16 December 2023 Modern Greek

However, this experiment took place because of the stalemate between the European Commission, the Council of the EU, and the European Parliament, regarding the aims of the CoFoE. [...] These …

and socially-oriented policy interest in Greece. Slovaks stand least interested among dominating the focus concerning the root causes of challenges or and Slovaks share something in common though: both knowledge their part, struggle to engage in democracy at Slovaks focus on ‘freedom’ as the primary identifier of curriculum climate neutrality within 20 years, while Slovaks are more in elementary and secondary education low level of participation of than weaknesses. Slovaks in European elections. Participants, nonetheless


ACAPS · 29 November 2023 English

The report aims to compare the scale of displacement in each country and refugees from Ukraine still face barriers accessing the services to which they have been their response capacity, …

TOWARDS REFUGEES 28/06/2023). In Slovakia, 25% of Slovaks were against granting Ukrainian refugees the same


Liberties: The Civil Liberties Union for Europe · 15 November 2023 English

The implication of the phrase “a threat to security” also remains unclear.75 This • Law enforcement has been taking these bill has the potential to prevent the spread of issues …

publications. ing. According to GLOBSEC, only 40% of Slovaks believe Russia is responsible for the war in Ukraine


GI-TOC: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime · 13 November 2023

The country (compared to pre-2022 levels) may indicate a Western Balkans remains a significant source of sharp increase in supply due to a new flow of weapons weapons almost three …

2022, https://ec.europa.eu/ underworld sources; Slovaks find railway smuggling tunnel to commission/pr


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