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The paper is based on a general statement on the importance of minority literature in the background of the opposition center - periphery. It emphasizes the viability of cultural efforts of minorities and mentions the specific conditions and forms of their literary realizations. Emphasis is placed on space-time of the Slovaks in Hungary during the turbulent 20th century. The aim of the paper is to point out the personality of Pavol Kondač (1931-2019), whose direct founding cultural-literary effort is still significant in the life of this national minority. The methodological starting point is the presentation of significant novels by this person: the author of the first Slovak novel in Hungary. In the background of the concretized cultural memory of nationality, he emphasizes his texts, in which he follows the tortuous fate of a simple, but also socially significant Slovak in the given chronotope. He focuses not only on the individual but also on the nationality as a whole. He presents various events, attributes, features and aspects which in one way or another (i.e. complexly) influenced the narrower or broader community in the given coordinates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyse the structure of the public investment aid within the Visegrád Group countries, i.e. in four Central European economies – the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hungary and the Republic of Poland (V4). The evaluation of the investment incentives is based on pre-selected criteria: the definition of the investment incentive and its legal regulation; the investment support structure and investment conditions. Based on a comparative analysis, it was found that Hungary uses the most different structure of investment incentives in an attempt to dynamically change the economy structure towards sectors with high added value. All countries strive to reduce regional disparities and support the development of peripheral areas, but the setting of investment incentives in the Czech Republic does not correspond to the current situation on the local labour market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the article is to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the competitiveness of the labour market in Hungary on the economically most developed central as well as the rural areas to illustrate discrepancy. Indicators related to the effectiveness of recovery regarding both human resource management and corporate management are also analysed. A questionnaire survey on recovery from the pandemic was filled in 2021 by 1184 company managers: 61% were received from the central region while 39% from rural areas. The crosstab analysis was applied while processing data. According to our findings, the backlog has decreased in six Hungarian regions except Western Transdanubia, which has been hit harder by the closures and restrictions. The more moderate development of the central region can be due to the presence of its companies on the global market while the catching up of the rural areas was aided by the wage subsidy of businesses operating there. It is worth examining the impact of economic crises on how the differences between the central and rural regions change and also which regions can benefit from the downturn. In conclusion, a crisis might also serve as an opportunity to achieve a balanced economy and regain competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the cross border rural areas located in the suburban zone of big agglomerations in border regions of Hungary and Slovakia and analyses their regional development possibilities via INTERREG HU SK new programme period projects. Special attention is devoted to demographic processes and phenomena related to these facts pandemic caused. Besides generally acceptable statistical data represents other data collected via field research in communities representing cross-border project expectation survey. It focuses on socio-economic effects of cross-border, analyses its impact on society of suburban inhabitants in Slovakia. There is a comparison between cross-border survey about the rural life standards before and after 2020 to predict current trends influenced by pandemic Added value can be the results of measuring gap in economic and demographic development in the cross-border regions mainly between Hungary and Slovakia after COVID-19 pandemic in the era of new programme period of the EU 2021-2027 with wide potential of INTERREG HU SK cross-border project developments through innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the cross border rural areas located in the suburban zone of big agglomerations in border regions of Hungary and Slovakia. Special attention is devoted to demographic processes and phenomena related to these facts. Besides generally acceptable statistical data represents other data collected via field research in communities representing suburban survey. It focuses on socio-economic effects of suburbanisation, analyses its impact on society of suburban inhabitants in Slovakia. There is a comparison between cross-border survey about the suburbanized rural life standards before and after 2020 to predict current trends influenced by pandemic Added value is the results of measuring gap in economic and demographic development in the cross-border regions mainly between Hungary and Slovakia during COVID-19 pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author presents one of the most important Slovak personalities from the so-called “Dolná zem” (engl. Lowland) : Samuel Tešedík from Szarvas, who created – especially in the field of agriculture education – works of European format. Tešedík’s greatest pedagogical contribution was the establishment of the first practical agricultural school in Hungary. He devoted himself not only to teaching of students but also to education of the common people. Thanks to his work and activities, he is still highly acclaimed by Slovak historical science. At the same time, he is a constant source of inspiration for people engaged in agriculture. In this study, the author emphasizes that the work of Samuel Tešedík in the field of public education and reformist work in agriculture is quite unique – and not only from the perspective of 18th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this contribution is to introduce the characteristic features and language specifics which are present in the cultural and literary work (1989-2018) of Alexander Kormoš, a Slovak poet living in contemporary Hungary. Based on creative bilingualism of individual texts, it highlights the individual creative language of the author, his diverse concretizations in terms of the centre and the symbolic periphery. It also uses an overall interpretive approach of its collections as well as the aspect of some exchange of cultural code or the impact of "codification". As a special feature of the contribution can be identified the search for the original essence of the lyrical subject on the basis of “used and applied“ languages with the help of multilingualism, viewed from the aspect of mutual contact of the Slovak and Hungarian language in poetry (language and its concretization). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]