A member organisation of the FUEN, the Macedonian Association "Ilinden" from Albania, recently informed the FUEN about incorrect statements regarding the minorities in Albania that were adopted as part of the European Parliament’s resolution on the 2017 Progress Report on Albania. According to the President of Ilinden, Nikola Gjurgjaj, the final version of the resolution might affect the rights and interests of the Macedonians living in Albania. More...
Today, the Parent-Child-Initiative is planning to hand over a preliminary version of their petition at the Landtag in Potsdam. The initiative is supported by the Domovina, the Union of Lusatian Sorbs, and the Council for Sorbian Affairs at the Potsdam Landtag. More...
"FUEN will be at home in Transsylvania. The delegates and our guests will have the chance to present an up-to-date situation of the minorities and their proposals for Europe and the member states. We would also like our guests to get to know better our region, the Hungarian community and other nationalities in Romania and eventually become ambassadors of our cause wherever they go" - stated the President of FUEN at the group meeting of the Hungarian (RMDSZ) members in the Chamber of Deputies of the Romanian Parliament. The leader of the parliamentary group Mr Attila Korodi stressed the importance and the role of the FUEN in shaping the future of the minority policy in Europe and praised the chance offered to the RMDSZ to organise the FUEN Congress 2017 in the capital city of Transsylvania. More...
FUEN strongly condemns the attitude of the Greek authorities and expresses its strong support to the elected Mufti of Xanthi Ahmet Mete and elected Mufti of Komotini İbrahim Şerif. More...
The reform of the Carinthian state constitution, which is one of the key priorities of the Carinthian state government consisting of the three coalition parties (SPÖ: Social Democrats – Prime Minister Kaiser, ÖVP: Conservatives – state party leader and Minister of Economy and Culture Benger, Die Grünen: Greens – Minister Rolf Holub) is drawing public attention now. More...
On the invitation of Renate Schnack, the Schleswig Holstein Minority Commissioner, a meeting of DialogForumNorden (DFN) took place on Thursday 16 February 2017. The main topic of discussion was the positive judgment of the European Court of Justice on the Minority SafePack Initiative (MSPI). For minority issues on the level of the EU but also for the majorities this judgment is a great success. More...
Today, the EU Court delivered the judgment in the case of the Minority SafePack Initiative against the European Commission. The Court held that the decision taken by the European Commission in September 2013 to reject the registration of the Minority SafePack Initiative was unlawful. More...
For more than a year the German minority in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland has been protesting against the expansion of the city of Opole. Through the administrative reform, municipalities inhabited by the German minority were annexed to the city. This reform has a detrimental effect on the rights of the minority, e.g. in relation to topographical signs, the use of the minority language with authorities and their political participation. More...
The judgment in the case of the Minority SafePack Initiative, the European Citizens’ Initiative for the minorities in Europe, will be announced by the European Court of Justice in Luxemburg on 3 February 2017. More...
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