Minority rights are not extra rights and are not a privilege

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...