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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Slovak Language Law is one of the most extraordinary pieces of legislation imaginable in a democratic country. Even the briefest of glances will show how restrictive it is and what kind of ...

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.