In a borderless European Union that boasts 23 official languages, one member, Slovakia, has enacted a law that limits the use of the languages of some fellow EU members. The extraordinary step has ...

Slovakia was once part of Hungary and is home to a population of 520,000 ethnic Hungarians who complain of discrimination by the Slovak government. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said the law ...

The Slovak language is not as overwhelming and scary as I thought. At Slovak Friends language school, they convinced me of that. When I moved to Slovakia, my Slovak language skills were next to zero.

The law against minority languages in Slovakia is an emotive issue for many Thousands of ethnic Hungarians have demonstrated in Slovakia, to protest against a new law that limits the use of minority ...

The Slovak language has hundreds of dialects, so many that Ján Sabol, head of the Slovak Language Department at Prešov University, won't wager a guess as to an approximate number. "There is modern ...

A draft Slovak law that would crack down on the use of minority languages in public has raised concerns about the rights of the country's Hungarian population. The proposed amendment to Slovakia's ...

Although classrooms emptied months ago, Katarina Molnarova has been to school every day throughout the hot summer–not to learn but to teach Slovakia’s government a lesson. Molnarova, who is among the ...

A new state language law passed by the Slovak parliament does not conform to EU standards as it discriminates against minority languages, the vice-chair of the European Parliament's foreign affairs ...

Slovakia will not abolish the recently passed amendment to the language law, Prime Minister Robert Fico said in a statement in which he rejected Monday's appeal by the Hungarian parliament to do so.

"Due to Slovakia and Hungary's diverging interests and positions, as well as the internal social and political conditions in the two countries, it appears unlikely that the [language] conflict will be ...