Corruption undermines the democratic institutional system, while minorities are often used for political interests. These challenges need to be adressed, and we must also encourage the broadening of linguistic rights to minority and regional languages. New kinds of laws are needed for the protection of minorities which facilitate integration. More...
05 juin 2017
The Winning Team for hosting the EUROPEADA 2020 has been chosen
The 4th EUROPEADA, the European football championship of the autochthonous minorities, will take place in Carinthia/ Koroška in 2020. More...
The conclusion of the FUEN Congress is the beginning of the citizen’s initiative petition campaign
This year's Congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), organised in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Romania, has ended. Over 300 delegates and guests attended the four-day event of the largest minority umbrella organisation in Europe. The petition campaign for the Minority SafePack Initiative has officially been launched during the congress. More...
The FUEN Congress focused on the infringements on minority rights in Eastern Europe
The 62nd Congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Romania concluded on Saturday with the Assembly of Delegates.
In a Manifesto, FUEN welcomes the decision of the European Commission to register the Minority SafePack Initiative and believes that the situation of the European autochthonous national minorities, nationalities, and ethnic communities, regional and linguistic groups cannot be considered the internal affairs of individual Member States. It is FUEN’s conviction that minority protection standards have to be established in the EU. More...
The petition campaign for the Minority SafePack Initiative started in Bonchida
The petition campaign for the Minority SafePack European Citizen’s Initiative has been launched on Friday evening at the Bánffy castle in Bonțida, Bonchida. Over 400 people arriving from all corners of Europe participated at the event organised as part of the Congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN). More...
Modernity and innovation in minority communities
Catalonian Member of the European Parliament Josep-Maria Terricabras, co-chair of the European Parliament’s Minority Intergroup spoke about the importance of language during the afternoon session of panel discussions entitled Modernity and Innovation in the Minority Communities. The MEP stated: „Language is a core part of people’s life. We should all have the right to express ourselves in our own language. Every language is equally important, and language rights mean that we belong somewhere, that we are members of a community.” More...
New kinds of laws are needed for the protection of minorities
FUEN round-table discussion on autonomy: every minority needs specific, tailor-made tools to protect their culture and identity
Practices and challenges of National-Cultural Autonomy in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe was the title of the discussion organized in cooperation with the Glasgow University that took place on Friday, during the 62nd FUEN Congress. More...
Hit the Road: FUEN is ready to start the Minority SafePack petition campaign
The Minority SafePack Initiative made history. It is the first initiative to win a case at the European Court in Luxembourg against the Commission’s decision to refuse registration of an ECI. But the hard part is still ahead of us: we need to gather 1 million signatures within a year to support the initiative, and we need to get more partners to join us in this quest. More...
European Commissioner Navracsics Tibor at the FUEN Congress
The language of culture is always easier to understand then the one of politics. It is more open, and more straightforward. We need to use this language when we try to understand a different culture, and when we need others to understand and accept us. Culture connects us Europeans with each-other. The majority has to accept that our heritage is equally important to theirs, and that proper tools need to be provided for the preservation of it. More...
Parliamentary-Debate in the German Bundestag - recognition for minorities in Germany and in Europe
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the "European Charter of Regional or Minority Languages" (June 25th), a parliamentary debate takes place in the German Bundestag, in which FUEN President Loránt Vincze and representatives of the FUEN member organizations are paticipating.
The debate is supported by a proposal from the coalition parliamentary groups CDU / CSU and SPD to strengthen the political participation of the four recognized minorities and the speakers of the regional language Niederdeutsch (Lower German language). More...
