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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hungary will file a formal complaint to the UN Human Rights Council over neighbouring Slovakia's new language law, Foreign Minister Peter Balazs said on Monday. The law, signed by Slovak President ...

"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 ...

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.