The European Citizen’s Initiative asking for EU protection and support for autocthonous national minorities and language groups managed to gather more than one million signatures and to pass the national threshold in more than 7 Member States. The deadline for the signatures collection is 3 April 2018. More...

The Federal Union of European Nationalities marked the end of the Minority SafePack petition campaign with an international press conference held at the House of Minorities Office in Flensburg on Wednesday, 4 April, mere hours after the closing of the campaign. More...

On April 3^rd at 11:59 PM the collection of statements of support for the Minority SafePack ends. We have a long road behind the Initiative. There were times when we didn’t think it could be done. Now, when we are approaching the last 24 hours, ten states have passed the national threshold, and most probably we have passed 1,100,000 signatures. More...

According to the numbers tallied by the FUEN one million statements of support have been signed for the Minority SafePack Initiative. This estimate is based on the online signatures added up with the number of signatures collected on paper forms by the FUEN’s member organisations and partners. The paper forms have not all been verified by our team yet, thus we need to remind everyone: this is not an official result, only an estimate. It is therefore paramount that we continue the  petition campaign until the final deadline on Tuesday, 3 April at 23:59.  We can only be sure about the success of the Minority SafePack Initiative when we will have comfortably passed the one million signature threshold. More...

The Minority SafePack Initiative asking for EU level protection and support for minority rights has grown to be a movement which has swept through Europe and engaged a multitude of minority protection organisations across the continent, many of which are not even members of the FUEN. More...

Latvia, Spain, Croatia and Denmark joined Romania, Slovakia and Hungary, states in which the national threshold has been reached. Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Poland and Slovenia also have good chances of reaching the threshold as the initiative reaches the finish line. In the last days new and strong commitments came from Lithuania and Sweden. Hungary made another strong statement  last week and  today it has secured over 400 000 signatures. A counter has been enabled on the minority-safepack.eu website for all the signatures made online and on paper, and it updates daily. More...