Minority protection is especially important in an era when ethnic and national boundaries start to fade due to free movement and globalisation: people, especially the youth of different nationalities think and behave alike while speaking multiple languages with each other. More...

From 23 until 26 November the sixth edition of the European Minority Film Festival will take place in Husum, Germany. Already for a period of 10 years our North Frisian member organisation “Friisk Foriining”, in cooperation with the Cinema Centre Husum, plays movies based on the motto “Great Films of Small Nations”, made in the languages of European peoples, who cannot rely on a cultural motherland. More...

Over the past years we have seen diverging views among the EU Member States about the future of Europe and its policies. The position of the United Kingdom after the election on Brexit is the most striking example, but also groups of other states may go further or less far in terms of European integration. More...

On behalf of the Federal Union of European Nationalities, FUEN advisor Frank de Boer attended the seminar “Which Steps Against Anti-Gypsyism” that took place in Brussels on Tuesday 15 November 2016. The seminar, hosted by the Open Society Foundations and Michael Roth, Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office, took place under the auspices of the European Commission High Level Group on combating racism, xenophobia and other forms of intolerance. More...

This week the 25th anniversary meeting of the Working Group of German Minorities inside FUEN (AGDM) took place in Berlin. The 50 participants of this anniversary event came from 29 different minority organisations and 19 European and Central Asian states. They are of great importance for the Federal Republic of Germany because they promote the German culture and especially the German language abroad – and because they work as bridge-builders between the different states. More...

From 7-10 November 2016 the 25th annual meeting of the Working Group of German Minorities inside FUEN (AGDM) is taking place in Berlin. More than 50 persons representing 29 minority organisations from 19 European and Central Asian states will meet at the jubilee event. They all are very important for the Federal Republic of Germany, because they work abroad for maintaining the German culture – especially in regard to the German language – and for understanding between peoples. This year even the German Chancellor Angela Merkel will honour their commitment personally. She will receive the guests in the Chancellor’s Office on 9 November. More...

Organized by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe and the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations the international conference ‘The promotion of national minorities by their ‘mother countries’ in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st century’ will take place from 9-11 November 2016 in Berlin. More...

On Sunday 30 October, the FUEN Seminar of the Slavic Minorities that this year was organised at the Croat minority in Subotica, Serbia, was concluded. More...

The Germans in Russia are celebrating the 25^th anniversary since the establishment of the International Association for German Culture (Internationaler Verband der Deutschen Kultur – IVDK) between October 28 and 30. More...

The situation of the Crimean Tatars and the fears of the minorities living in Crimea were discussed, but also the developments in the field of language promotion. A particular important issue was the imminent assimilation and the future perspective for the Turkic minorities in Europe and in Central Asia.
Homepage of the Working Group of Turkic Minorities. More...