NOVE ZAMKY, Slovakia — 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 ...

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 thirty years of Slovakia's existence as an independent country is also mirrored in the Slovak language, opines popular Slovak linguist Sibyla Mislovičová. There are words we do not need anymore ...

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 ...

When I moved to Slovakia, my Slovak language skills were next to zero. I had been held back by fear because I heard one popular phrase about this language being impossibly difficult so many times that ...

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 ...

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.