“As has become customary: whenever I come to Bratislava, I consult with the leaders of the Hungarian Alliance,” Foreign ...

The law, which took effect on Sept. 1, limits the use of Hungarian and Slovakia's other minority languages, in public and calls for fines of up to euro5,000 ($7,300) for anyone "misusing" language.

The European Union has cited the Slovak government’s treatment of the ethnic Hungarian minority as one reason Slovakia has been left off the short list of potential new members of the union.

The Slavic majority and Hungarian minority in Slovakia are embroiled in a bitter dispute over language that is spilling across the border. Nowhere in the European Union are relations worse between ...

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Hungarians demonstrate against a language law in Slovakia, which would limit language rights of the Hungarian minority, outside Slovakia's embassy in Brussels on September 1, 2009 [File ...

“Now there is a possibility they will find their enemy in the Hungarian minority.” Yet Huncik and others in south Slovakia find little comfort in the anti-Slovak rhetoric of many Hungarians ...

File photo: Slovak and EU flags blow in the wind near the Bratislava castle in Bratislava, Slovakia, Thursday, June 30, 2016 Gavin Newsom defies Senate vote: 'Illegal' Pee-wee Herman and the ...

Central Europe Activ writes about political views of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building ...

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 could be on track to losing one of its main allies: Hungary. Bratislava’s latest amendment to its language law — which curtails the use of minority languages, including Hungarian — could ...