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The 2023 Annual Freedom Lecture To Be Held On November 17, 2023!

The 2023 Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture will be held in Washington, DC, on November 17! This year’s event will be co-organized by The Transatlantic Democracy Working Group at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC, with an option to attend virtually. The featured speaker, Rasťo Kužel, Executive Director of Memo98, will discuss the importance […]

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2023


2023 Election Watch Party

The Slovak Embassy and Friends of Slovakia co-hosted an invitation-only Election Watch Party on September 30, 2023, to analyze the important parliamentary election in Slovakia that was held on the same day. Experts from both Slovakia and the US, including political analysts, election monitors, and mock election organizers, provided their insights into the election results.

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2023


Friends of Slovakia Co-Hosts the Inaugural SlovakPRO Summit in New York!

Friends of Slovakia co-hosted the inaugural SlovakPro Summit in New York City on September 19, 2023. This historic event brought together a group of accomplished Slovaks from business, science, academia, arts, and technology. The summit was organized under the patronage of Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová by SlovakPRO in collaboration with the Consulate General of the […]

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Sep

2023

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The 2023 Annual Freedom Lecture To Be Held On November 17, 2023!

The 2023 Czech and Slovak Freedom Lecture will be held in Washington, DC, on November 17! This year’s event will be co-organized by The Transatlantic Democracy Working Group at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC, with an option to attend virtually. The featured speaker, Rasťo Kužel, Executive Director of Memo98, will discuss the importance […]

17

Nov

2023


2023 Election Watch Party

The Slovak Embassy and Friends of Slovakia co-hosted an invitation-only Election Watch Party on September 30, 2023, to analyze the important parliamentary election in Slovakia that was held on the same day. Experts from both Slovakia and the US, including political analysts, election monitors, and mock election organizers, provided their insights into the election results.

30

Sep

2023


Friends of Slovakia Co-Hosts the Inaugural SlovakPRO Summit in New York!

Friends of Slovakia co-hosted the inaugural SlovakPro Summit in New York City on September 19, 2023. This historic event brought together a group of accomplished Slovaks from business, science, academia, arts, and technology. The summit was organized under the patronage of Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová by SlovakPRO in collaboration with the Consulate General of the […]

19

Sep

2023

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FOS Ready to Launch Its Third Student Summit on Challenges of Democracy

By Thomas W. Skladony

The Friends of Slovakia (FOS) International Student Summits are off and running! Two successful virtual summits were held in 2021 and a third summit will occur in April 2022. All three events address the theme, “Challenges of Democracy.” The students, faculty, and expert guest speakers from past summits have all participated virtually due to covid-19 restrictions and will continue to do so for the third Student Summit.

FOS Celebrates 20th Anniversary with Dinner at Slovak Embassy

By Thomas W. Skladony

Current and former directors of Friends of Slovakia, along with spouses and special guests, celebrated the 20th anniversary of FOS on November 17, 2021, at a dinner at the Slovak Embassy in Washington, D.C. hosted by Ambassador Radovan Javorčík. Earlier in the day, Beata Balogová, editor-in-chief of the Slovak daily SME, delivered the 2021 Czech […]

Ivan Korčok Named Slovak Foreign Minister

By Thomas W. Skladony

Ivan Korčok, recently the Slovak Ambassador to the U.S., has been appointed Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic in the cabinet of the new Slovak government led by Prime Minister Igor Matovič. The February 29 parliamentary elections saw the rise of Matovič’s OLaNO party, which was able to form a new governing coalition with three other parties. In the course of selecting positions in the cabinet, the SAS party headed by Richard Sulík, chose Amb. Korčok as Foreign Minister, even though he is not a member of SAS. He will serve as an independent member of the cabinet.