When I was part of the Metropolitan State University(MSU) administrative community, I had to be especially aware of our enrollment trends because we were very dependent on them to finance much of our developing infrastructure and innovations necessary to serve our student body. More...

It’s official: the Minority SafePack is a successful European Citizen’s Initiative. National authorities in 27 Member States have verified the signed statements of support and validated 1,121,090 of them.  The final number will be tallied as soon as the French authorities will announce the number of signatures they validated. More...

The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) will have its 63rd Annual Congress in Leeuwarden Ÿ Ljouwert, the Netherlands, between 20-24 June 2018. More...

Two decades after the adoption of the Council of Europe legal instruments we must honestly admit that the two legal instruments have not yet achieved their initial aim to make possible for minorities to exercise their rights and enjoy the freedoms from the principles included in the Framework Convention – stated the president of the FUEN in Strasbourg, at the conference organised on the occasion of celebrating twenty years since the adoption of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. More...

FUEN asks majority communities from all over Europe to join the movement for minority rights, to listen to the national minorities and language groups without prejudices, to help them becoming EU citizens with equal rights. “We need to work together on a local, regional and European level, as we aim to put minority agenda on the European agenda”, says the document. More...

Members of the Citizens’ Initiative, leaders of FUEN member organisations and representatives of other partners involved in the successful campaign of the Minority SafePack Initiative discussed the story of the initiative and the steps to follow next at FUEN’s 63rd annual Congress in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert. More...

It’s official: the Minority SafePack is a successful European Citizens’ Initiative. National authorities in all 28 Member States of the European Union have verified the signed statements of support and validated a total number of 1,128,385 signatures. It is now also certified that the MSPI managed to reach the national threshold in 11 member states: Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Latvia, Spain, Denmark, Croatia, Slovenia, Lithuania and Italy. More...