SMER, the recent winner of the early parliamentary elections in Slovakia, has announced changes to the citizenship law that will limit the withdrawal of Slovak citizenship from those voluntarily acquiring  the citizenship of another state. The planned changes will allow those who will acquire another citizenship on the basis of permanent residency to remain Slovak citizens. All others will continue to lose their Slovak citizenship. Citizenship law was last amended under Robert Fico’s SMER-led government in July 2010. SMER is thus proposing to mitigate the impacts of its own law.
The opposition party MOST-Híd, which draws on support from the Hungarian minority, does not feel these changes will be enough and will propose further amendments once the bill gets into parliament for debate. As a minimum, they would like to extend the number of exceptions to those who studied abroad or those who have family abroad (SME, http://www.sme.sk, March 15 2003).
 
Since the introduction of the citizenship act amendments by Fico’s previous cabinet, 206 people (93 men and 113 women) have lost their Slovak citizenship (as of 20 January 2012) by acquiring the following foreign citizenships:
 
Czech: 45 men and 58 women
German: 24
Hungarian: 23
Austrian: 22
British: 12
American: 9
Dutch: 6
Iceland: 2
Ukraine, France, Canada, Norway, Italy: 1 each
 
The Ministry doesn’t seek out people acquiring new citizenship actively, thus only those who report their new citizenship lose their Slovak citizenship. However, persons who do not report risk a fine of 3319 EUR.
 
source: based on the report of the Ministry of Interior.