FUEN, the largest European umbrella organization of the autochthonous, national minorities / ethnic groups in Europe, is still on a growth path. As FUEN, headquartered in Flensburg, announced earlier this year, the Office Manager and Head of Office positions in Flensburg are now in place. More...
After the three successful European football championships of the autochthonous national minorities, hosted by the Romansh people in Grisons/Switzerland in 2008, the Lusatian Sorbs in Germany in 2012 and the German-speaking South Tyroleans and the Ladins in South Tyrol/Italy in 2016, the FUEN is looking forward to a fair competition regarding the decision of who will host the EUROPEADA 2020. More...
The FUEN Congress has started in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Romania, and for the upcoming days the capital city of Transylvania, Erdély, Siebenbürgen will also be the capital city of minorities. The highlight of the event will be the launch of the petition on Friday to support the Minority SafePack Initiative. "We launch an appeal to the European minority communities, member states, the regions, the European institutions, the political families, governments and parliaments to become friends of the Minority SafePack Initiative. We need partners in convincing the European citizens and the EU Institutions, that cultural and linguistic diversity should not only be a nice slogan. Instead, it should mean action, funds, policies, monitoring and control mechanisms”. More...
We are pleased to share that the Ambassador of Georgia in the Federal Republic of Germany H.E. Lado Chanturia will deliver a keynote speech at the opening day of the ECMI Summer School 2017. The Federal Republic of Germany being the first state to recognize Georgia’s independence in 1991, diplomatic relations between the two countries were established in April 1992. We are looking forward to hearing current developments of their relations from the Ambassador and welcoming him in the Danish-German Border region. More...
"The citizens are the center of Europe, not the states, that is why the European Citizens' Initiative is so important and noone should feel like a second grade citizen because all languages are equal as key elements of our diversity." - this was the main message of the European Parliaments' President Antonio Tajani as transmitted by his personal councilor for minority issues Markus Warasin who reassured the FUEN that the President very much supports the Minority SafePack Initiative and his door is always open. More...
On May 3-4 the FUEN is holding a conference in Brussels, under the high patronage of the President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani. The conference entitled Hit the road - the Minority SafePack Initiative and the European Parliament is being hosted by RMDSZ MEPs Iuliu Winkler and Csaba Sógor, representatives of the Hungarian community in Romania. More...
Although bilingualism has become more accepted and equal access to education for minority language education is improving, this applies only to parts of the country. Austria’s advanced system for teaching and learning minority languages in Carinthia and in Burgenland, for example, including bilingual teaching, has not been matched for national minorities in other regions or in Vienna. More...
The FUEN annual congress will be hosted by the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania, RMDSZ, in Cluj-Napoca (in Hungarian: Kolozsvár, in German: Klausenburg), between the 17th and the 21st of May. On April 20th, the RMDSZ president, Hunor Kelemen, and the FUEN president, Loránt Vincze, held a joint press conference in the host city to announce the event to the national and local press. More...
The Minority SafePack Citizens Initiative has been presented in Copenhagen on April 19th.
Members of the MSPI citizens' initiative, FUEN, Sydslesvigsk Forening (SSF), DialogForumNorden and Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger (BDN) were invited for consultation in the ’Sønderjyske Værelse’ (Southern Jytland Room). More...
Are immigrants groups or a legal category? Shall we separate immigrant rights from national minority rights? Are we in a vicious circle of conceptualisation? Who has a choice and who does not: is the protection scheme designed on a concept of choice? These are some of the questions that were raised during the discussions. More...
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