“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 ...

Swedish is Finland’s second official language, yet less than 6% of the population are native speakers. This percentage has declined by half over the last century, leaving only 300,000 Swedish-speaking ...