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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA — If nationalists in Slovakia have their way, schoolchildren will soon be forced, each Monday at 8 a.m., to listen to the national anthem blaring out from loudspeakers across this ...