Historian Dušan Kováč on why Slovaks cling to myths about Ľudovít Štúr — and what history tells us about the man, his time ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...