Blue &Yellow: Politics and Economics in Ukraine

A party representing the Hungarian minority is mounting a challenge in the constitutional court: it calls the law “19th-century language imperialism”. The Slovak response similarly accuses the Hungarians of hankering for the 19th century: they dominated the region in the Habsburg era. The Slovak prime minister, Robert Fico, said the real problem was those wanting to bully Slovaks in the south of the country into learning Hungarian.

This excerpt from an article in The Economist on a new law in Slovakia that fines people that do not promote Slovak in public. A reminder that language disputes don't just happen in Ukraine, but can happen in the heart of the European Union.