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...

One of the roles of FUEN’s annual Congress is to present the local reality to the participants and this is the reason why it travels each year to a new minority region. It was not any different in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert: for Friday the local organisers prepared a whole day of programmes about Fryslân for the 230 delegates and guests coming from more than 30 countries. 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...

The FUEN Congress 2018 started in good spirits in Leeuwarden/Ljouwert, the capital of Fryslân and of culture on 21 June 2018. Ferd Crone, the mayor of Leeuwarden/Ljouwert welcomed the Congress in behalf of the Frisian people, talked about Fryslân’s cultural significance. More...