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 ...

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 ...

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 54th year of Studia Academica Slovaca, a summer school of Slovak language and culture, due to accommodate 156 foreign students from 33 countries, ceremonially opened at Comenius University in ...

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 ...

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.

A bilingual project of the Slovak and Chinese language was started on Monday at Gymnasium Mikulasa Kovaca in Banska Bystrica, in central Slovakia. "It's a unique project not only in Slovakia, but in ...

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 ...