Minorities, page 4

Slovakia is an ethnically diverse country. In the last census in 2021, 83.82 percent of the participants claimed allegiance to Slovak nationality. The biggest national minority is the Hungarian one followed by the Roma and Rusyns.

  • Hungarian minority: 422,065 (7.75 percent)

  • Roma minority: 67,179 (1.23 percent)

  • Rusyn minority: 23,746 (0.44 percent)

  • Czech minority: 28,996 (0.53 percent)

  • Ukrainian minority: 9,451 (0.17 percent)

  • German minority: 3,318 (0.06 percent)

  • Moravian minority: 1,098 (0.02 percent)

  • Polish minority: 3,771 (0.07 percent)

  • Russian minority: 3,245 (0.06 percent)

  • Bulgarian minority: 1,106 (0.02 percent)

  • Croatian minority: 967 (0.02 percent)

  • Serbian minority: 1,084 (0.02 percent)

  • Vietnamese minority: 2,793 (0.05 percent)

  • Jewish: 596 (0.01 percent)

Hungarian delegation is leaving the castle Big Trianon after signing the treaty on June 4, 1920.

Trianon is a trauma for Hungary even a hundred years later

Slovaks and Hungarians look at the events that led up to the Trianon Treaty differently.

Boris Vanya
Ombudswoman Mária Patakyová

Ombudswoman: Conditions of the state quarantine should be re-evaluated

Slovakia is still a democratic state where any fundamental restrictions of rights may only be temporary.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán (centre) and his Slovak counterpart Peter Pellegrini (centre-left) during their visit at the transit zone for migrants in Röszke on the Hungarian-Serbian border.

Ethnic Hungarians should not be divided into good and bad

The identity of Slovakia's Hungarians cannot be based on how they feel about Orbán.

The Year of the Ruthenian village

Start of preparation for counting of citizens.

Fiľakovo

Slovak election to test Orbán’s clout among ethnic Hungarians

Slovakia’s ethnic Hungarian minority has a reputation for political moderation. As an election looms and Viktor Orbán ramps up his influence from across the border, is that about to change?

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“Foreigners” born in Slovakia show their faces

Otherness can be smaller than we think, the photo project of Tomáš Halász and the Milan Šimečka Foundation shows.

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Slovak teenagers would reject political extremist neighbours, says survey

One fifth of Slovak teenagers think Roma are doing better than majority.

Family from Trnava deserves a deep apology

Church and State silently tolerate the separation of Roma children from the majority in schools and churches.

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The ban on singing national anthems may be cancelled

Junior coalition partner Most-Híd also voted for the amendment. Its chair Béla Bugár now promises correction.

A Vietnamese bistro in Bratislava

Vietnamese bistros in Slovakia. What are they all about?

Vietnamese cuisine has also gained popularity in Paris, Berlin and Prague.

Michaela Štalmachová
Psychologist Péter Hunčík speaking.

How does it feel to belong to a minority in Slovakia?

People representing old and new minorities shared their experiences with their changing identities and life with the majority.

More reasons to stay

Excluding people doesn’t just affect those who choose to leave.

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Bratislava will celebrate Hungarian culture with a week-long festival

The traditional week offers exhibitions, theatre, music, ballet, gastronomy, a Visegrad Four symposium, and more.

Slovakia’s LGBTI community seeks to expand their rights.

The biggest survey showed the lives of LGBT people

They are mostly liberals but a third of them consider themselves to be Catholics.

The Superar choir

Festival aims to build trust between foreigners and natives

After having shifted the attention to new minorities appearing in Slovakia, the 13th year of the “multicultural festival focusing on minorities”, fjúžn, aims to boost mutual trust.

Roma settlement in Markušovce

The fight against discrimination of minorities fails

A recent survey confirms the intolerance towards various groups across the EU.

Rainbow flags flew in Bratislava last weekend

The LGBTI Pride march took place in the capital along with the “Proud about Family” event that opposed it.

LGBTI people in the regions: We change people’s minds

Bratislava will dress up in rainbow colours this August again, for the seventh time. This will be for the Bratislava Dúhový Pride diversity festival. But the colours of the rainbow are less bright in the regions, far away from the anonymous environment of the capital.

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