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A detailed map compiled by the Mail shows how 11 nations in the Schengen area — from France to Slovakia, Sweden to Germany — have re-instated long-abandoned border restrictions including ...

A proposed amendment to Slovakia's language legislation could prove a fresh setback to diplomatic relations between Bratislava and Budapest. A draft Slovak law that would crack down on the use of ...

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 ...