“Tolerant, proportional and realistic. Tolerant because it shows the way for millions of Europeans,” according to a Finnish politician. He was commenting on the proposal for a renewal of the 1922 ...

Officially, Sweden doesn't keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, so he decided to find out for himself ...

There are close to 300,000 people in Finland who speak Swedish as their mother tongue. Swedish is enshrined in the constitution as a national language with equal status to Finnish, officially making ...