Slovakian parliament passes a law that's making patriotism mandatory

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Sorry, but this time I really don't understand.

 

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UKIP members have pretty same opinion as Conservative party. You just cant stand that they are againist Eurobear.
BNP stand is protofascist.

UKIP is crypto-racist.

 

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UKIP members have pretty same opinion as Conservative party. You just cant stand that they are againist Eurobear.
BNP stand is protofascist.

Yes and no; while UKIP are essentially Tory malcontents, they represent the very hardest line of the party. They may not stray into the radical politics of the BNP, they hardly represent a mainstream position.

 

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Good news, everyone!

Slovak president vetoed the law, officially because it was set to come into force on the April Fools day (which would indeed be appropriate ).

BBC finally picked up the story:

Slovak President Gasparovic sends back patriotism law

The president of Slovakia has vetoed a controversial patriotism law passed recently by parliament.

The law, which among other things would require schools to play the Slovak national anthem every Monday, was due to come into force on 1 April.

But President Ivan Gasparovic says schools have not had enough time to conform to it.

There has been a public outcry over the law, drawn up by a nationalist party in the governing coalition.

Schools in particular complained they did not have enough money to pay for flags, coats of arms and other symbols of Slovak statehood that the law says must adorn every classroom.

Neither, said the schools, were there enough loudspeakers to play the national anthem every Monday morning.

President Gasparovic told reporters he was totally in favour of the law. The only problem, he said, was its timing.

He has now returned it to parliament to be amended to September.

Observers, however, believe there are other forces at work, saying Prime Minister Robert Fico put pressure on the president not to sign it.

Mr Fico and his party originally supported the law, but were evidently caught off guard by the scale of public opposition to it.

The Slovak National Party, which drafted the bill, said it was a response to developments in neighbouring Hungary, where nationalist politicians have been making inflammatory comments about Slovakia and the treatment of its large Hungarian minority.

This is an election year in both Slovakia and Hungary, and the nationalist rhetoric on both sides of the Danube is becoming increasingly belligerent.

It isn't likely that it gets through the Parliament again, so it's clinically dead. Too bad, I was looking for war between Slovak and Hungarian nationalists. And I can't taunt my Slovak friends about it anymore