The Conference will gather experts and prominent scholars on national minority issues and will focus on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM). The event marks the 20th anniversary of the FCNM and the launching of a new publication titled “The Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities: A Commentary”, edited by Rainer Hofmann, Tove H. Malloy and Detlev Rein (Brill, 2018). More...
“The Minority SafePack is very important in the current situation in Europe, where national minorities are often neglected, especially in EU policies and programmes,” says the ECMI Director Prof. Dr. Tove Malloy, highlighting the importance of the initiative. More...
Between 19 and 23 March 2018 the ECMI team will teach at the University of Swansea in Wales, UK. The ECMI course on ‘The European Minority Rights and Minority Protection Regime’ will be a part of the curriculum of the LLM in Human Rights Programme at the College of Law and Criminology (Coleg y Gyfraith a Throseddeg). The course will be taught as an intensive one week block module. More...
Some of the main achievements and results of the initiative include the establishment of the Office for Minority Issues in Bijelina (BiH), the creation of a Platform for Social Dialogue and Cooperation in Tetovo (FYROM), trainings on monitoring and the implementation of a Roma and Ashkhali action plan in Ferizaj/Urosevac and Prizren (Kosovo), and the publication of a Handbook on Minority Institutions in Schleswig-Holstein and educational info-sheets on selected topics. More...
Nous demandons à l’UE d’améliorer la protection des personnes appartenant à des minorités nationales et linguistiques et de renforcer la diversité culturelle et linguistique au sein de l’Union.
Principaux objectifs
Nous demandons à l’UE d’adopter une série d’actes juridiques afin d’améliorer la protection des personnes appartenant à des minorités nationales et linguistiques, et de renforcer la diversité culturelle et linguistique au sein de l’Union. Ce train de mesures doit inclure des actions politiques dans les domaines des langues régionales et minoritaires, de l’éducation et de la culture, de la politique régionale, de la participation, de l’égalité, du contenu des médias audiovisuels et autres, ainsi que du soutien des régions (aides d’État). Plus...
We are close to having gathered the 1 million signatures, 822 000 EU citizens have already signed the Minority SafePack Initiative, announced Loránt Vincze, the President of the FUEN on March 8, 2018. With 25 days to go, the European Citizen’s Initiative asking for EU protection and support for autochthonous minorities and language groups has a good chance of succeeding. More...With little more than a month to go and 3000 signatures missing to reach the national threshold of 9750, the German minority in Denmark feels optimistic about the Minority SafePack Initiative. FUEN’s delegation, led by President Loránt Vincze visited Denmark on Tuesday, 27th of February to get an update on the local campaign. More...Aggressions against the Hungarian minority protection organisations have become frequent in Ukraine. The offices of the KMKSZ in Uzhhorod were the target of aggressive acts for the second time this month. The FUEN firmly disproves of any form of intimidation and any and all acts which bypass proper democratic instruments. In our view the acts of vandalism of the offices of the KMKSZ were not only an aggression against the organisation itself, but an aggression against the Hungarian community in Ukraine. More...Groups with parliamentary representation in the parliamentary chamber in Vitoria-Gasteiz approved an institutional declaration supporting the “Minority SafePack” European initiative in favour of the security of national minorities and a number of regulatory developments in the European Union that enable the promotion of minority rights, language rights and the protection of their cultures. More...The occasion was the 20th jubilee of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities of the Council of Europe. The document contains essential regulations on education, participation, language rights and the access to media for national minorities in Europe. Currently, it has been ratified by 39 out of the 47 Member states of the Council of Europe, making it the most important agreement on minority protection at the level of international law. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
