The paper deals with ways in which a lexicology teacher can include the European (in the case of borrowings even global) dimension in his teaching. We lean on our own experience of teaching lexicology within French as a Foreign Language studies at Roman Studies Department of the Faculty of Humanities of Matej Bel University and we propose to our colleagues who teach the same discipline some possibilities of reflection which allow to relate lexicology to interculturality and European dimension. We could sum up these possibilities as follows: borrowings, linguistic policy, purist tendencies (related to norm defense) and sociolinguistic perspectives (related to varieties), everlasting discourse about the language crisis.