In 1993, the Slovak parliament elected economist Michal Kovac as newly-independent Slovakia's first president.
Until now, no Slovak party has been willing to give the Hungarians what they want.
The Slovak vote was the last country of the 17 EU members to vote.
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The effect on Slovak industry is serious, because companies can no longer raise equity finance.
Lithuania, the Slovak Republic and Belgium also derive more than half of their electricity from nuclear plants.
Would, say, a Hungarian-speakers' poetry club have to arrange for their meetings to be translated into Slovak?
The new four-party Slovak coalition (it also includes a small Christian-Democrat party) will have two big tasks.
Slovak President Rudolf Schuster has asked the outgoing prime minister, Mikulas Dzurinda, to form a new government.
Some hope that things will improve as the fortunes of Jan Slota, the Slovak National Party leader, fade.
Some now regard this as an admirable, if brief, interlude of statehood for the much put-upon Slovak nation.
Government supporters say that Mr Kovac's son was kidnapped by the Slovak secret service on Mr Meciar's orders.
Still, such funding is not illegal under Slovak law, and Mr Fico has long since cut ties with Penta.
In 1994, Slovak Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar and his government were ousted by parliament in a vote of no-confidence.
Robot is derived from the Slovak word robota, which means drudgery or servitude.
Only the far-right xenophobes of the Slovak Nationalist Party might consider backing him.
Neil Wilson has co-authored the Lonely Planet Czech and Slovak Republics guidebook.
Nearly a third of all Czech, Slovak and Romanian bank loans are classified by regulators as possible or probable losses.
The Slovak response similarly accuses the Hungarians of hankering for the 19th century: they dominated the region in the Habsburg era.
Slovak number seven seed Daniela Hantuchova was defeated in a three-set marathon with Spaniard Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-4 6-7(7-3) 7-6 (7-5).
The Slovak dealt with them well, although the first effort slipped past him to nudge the post before he held it.
However Slovak MEPs speaking in the debate said their language law was "mild", and denied it was discriminatory against ethnic Hungarians.
On Monday the Slovak Justice Minister, Tomas Borec, said he would like to see Mr Csatary put on trial in Slovakia.
Benneteau, the world 39, will play a Saturday a semifinal against either fifth seed compatriot Gilles Simon or Slovak Martin Klizan.
However a new law in Slovakia encourages use of Slovak in areas of the country where many ethnic minorities, particularly Hungarians, live.
As the train steamed along the Rhine Valley, the river sparkling in the sunshine, Slovak documentary maker Matej Minac told his story.
But in January, an Austro-Dutch consortium pulled out of a deal to buy a steel mill in Katowice, near the Slovak border.
Roosevelt's Census Proclamation, urging Americans to participate, was translated into 23 languages, including Slovak, Greek, Lithuanian, Russian, Dutch, Hebrew, Serbo-Croatian, French, Italian, Spanish, German.
Meanwhile Slovak eurosceptic MEP Jaroslav Paska said Ukraine was closer to the EU than current or future candidate countries such as Albania and Turkey.
The European Socialists temporarily suspended the membership of the Smer-SD party led by the Slovak prime minister, Robert Fico, but nobody seemed to care.
The current Slovak government recently introduced a worryingly broad press law that allows those criticised by the newspapers the right to a prominent rebuttal.
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