FUEN member organisation Macedonian Association “Ilinden" from Tirana, who works to protect the rights of Macedonians in Albania, submitted a request to Albanian authorities to begin issuing identity documents in Macedonian. More...

As from today, the Minority SafePack Initiative will use a new online collection form. This new version looks different than before and was designed by the European Commission so that it is easier to use also on mobile phones and tablets.
The new form also has a more natural way of guiding you through the form. However, the information that has to be provided is still the same. More...

After a fruitful FUEN Presidium and Team meeting held in Berlin on September 5-6, which primarily focused on the MSPI campaign, President Loránt Vincze, accompanied by his advisor István Szilágyi visited Croatia and Slovenia. They had several meetings with European, minority and state representatives from both countries, including the Federal Government Commissioner for Matters Related to Ethnic German Resettlers and National Minorities, the President of the Slovenian Parliament, the Hungarian Ambassador in Slovenia, Presidents of FUEN Member Organisations and Members of Parliament representing national minorities. More...

The recent discriminatory measures and anti-minority events that took place in the United Kingdom, Romania and Ukraine confirm our conviction that there is a need for a European level guarantee for minority rights. The European Union needs to protect our communities and make sure the rights we do have cannot be taken away; as many people as possible need to sign the Minority SafePack Citizen's Initiative. More...

FUEN member organization the Friendship Equality and Peace (FEP) Party from Western Trace, Greece reported about hate speech statements made in public against the Turkish minority from Western Thrace. The FEP Party condemned the racist and discriminatory rhetoric used against the Muslims living in Greece and the Western Thrace Turkish minority by the Central Union Party Chairman Vasilis Leventis and calls upon him to reconsider his words. More...

The four minorities - the Danes in South Schleswig, the Frisians, the German Sinti and Roma as well as the Lusatian Sorbs - presented their contribution to the different levels; regional, national and European:
Minorities are bridge builders in their regions, as well as across borders. They know how to work together, cultivate their language and culture and know how to move in two or more cultures. They cultivate a respectful coexistence in cultural diversity. They know the challenge between integration and assimilation and have learned to live and work from one another to one another. More...

We are pleased to announce a successful kick-off of a new project in Bijeljina, BiH. After the project “Minorities in Western Balkans” finished last year, the project partners received the trust and support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic cooperation and development (BMZ) and the State Chancellery of Schleswig-Holstein in collaboration with the GIZ to continue the project in 2017. As a follow up several sub-projects were developed by our local partners, with the support and experience of FUEN and ECMI. More...

Following the acknowledgement of the Minority SafePack Initiative (MSPI) from the former parliament of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein already in September 2013, the new parliament recently followed their footsteps and declared their support for the European Citizens’ Initiative, which was launched by the Federal Union of  European Nationalities (FUEN) four years ago. More...

According to the Official Journal of the European Union the Romanian Government appealed to the European Court of Justice to annul the European Commission’s decision to register the Minority SafePack Citizen’s Initiative. FUEN President Loránt Vincze, and Bálint Porcsalmi, Executive President of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ) held a joint press conference in Transylvania today to address this new turn of events. More...