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Committee on Petitions delegation to Romania
The Committee on Petitions will travel to Romania from 15 to 18 May to investigate issues raised by petitioners -illegal logging and the management and protection of the brown bear population- a group of eight MEPs will travel to Bucharest, Sfântu Gheorghe and Suceava in Romania and meet the Romanian Minister of Environment Mr Barna Tánczos, other government officials, local
Black March 1990 – 33 years since the Ethnic Clashes in Romania
Only a few months on the aftermath of the Romanian Revolution, on 19-20 March 1990, the public opinion in Romania and abroad was shocked by the ethnic conflict between Hungarians and Romanians from Târgu-Mureș • Marosvásárhely. The events, broadcasted by the most important radio and TV stations in the world resulted in five deaths – Romanians and Hungarians – and
Appeal filed against the lower court decision on MSPI
The Minority SafePack Initiative’s Citizens’ Committee filed an appeal with the Court of Justice of the European Union in the context of the annulment proceedings brought by the MSPI against the European Commission. The Citizens’ Committee and the FUEN’s Presidium unanimously decided to appeal. “We are confident that the Court of Justice will overrule the General Court’s decision of last
CoFoE: citizens demand more from the EU
On 2 December, EU institutions and over 500 citizens assessed the follow-up to the proposals of the Conference on the Future of Europe. The European Parliament hosted today’s feedback event on the Conference on the Future of Europe in Brussels, involving representatives of the Parliament, the Council and the Commission, as well as the citizens who were at the core
Minority language promotion projects in practice and on location
When talking about the relationship between tourism and minorities, it is always worth studying whether tourism helps language vitality and not just the income of people – as Michele Gazzola, Lecturer in Public Policy and Administration at Ulster University, Belfast noted in his keynote speech of the second panel at the Forum of European Minority Regions in Galway, Ireland on
The quest for minority rights in the EU continues
On Wednesday, 9 November 2022 the General Court of the European Union delivered its judgment in the case of the Minority SafePack Initiative vs the European Commission. The press release on the Court decision states that the EC proceeded correctly in refusing to propose legal acts based on the MSPI. According to the General Court, “the action already taken by
Judgment of the General Court in Case of Minority SafePack
The General Court confirms the Commission communication refusing to take the action requested in the European citizens’ initiative ‘Minority SafePack – one million signatures for diversity in Europe’ The action already taken by the European Union to emphasise the importance of regional or minority languages and to promote cultural and linguistic diversity is sufficient to achieve the objectives of that
Loránt Vincze re-elected as FUEN President
Loránt Vincze will lead the Federal Union of European Nationalities, FUEN, for another three years. The European umbrella organisation for minorities, which has more than a hundred minority organisations among its members, held its annual congress in Berlin this week. The Assembly of Delegates on Saturday re-elected the current president, who was running alone for the post as the candidate
Let’s act against the decline of linguistic rights in EU!
Let’s act against the decline of linguistic diversity in Europe & for the promotion of national and linguistic minority rights!” called the conference held on the 7th of September in the European Parliament. The cross-party Conference, which aimed to bring together actors and stakeholders working for the promotion and protection of linguistic diversity and national and linguistic minority rights, was
UN Special Procedures issues official communication to France
UN Special Procedures have issued an official communication to the French state noting their concerns over discrimination against territorial languages following the Constitutional Court’s intervention against the Molac Law in July 2021. The Communication is a follow-up to the European Language Equality Network’s letter of allegation sent to the UN Special Rapporteur for Minorities in 2021. The Communication was tabled