Supported by 1,128,385 EU citizens – including 6,168 citizens of Slovenia – Minority SafePack is a European Citizens' Initiative that contains nine proposals. Combined, they intend to form a foundation for the establishment of a comprehensive EU Minority Rights Legal Framework. More...
32 teams representing autochthonous national minorities from all over Europe will compete at next year’s EUROPEADA, FUEN’s European football championship of the autochthonous, national minorities. The EUROPEADA 2020 will take place on 20-28 June 2020 and it will be hosted by the Carinthian Slovenes.
Seven minorities (South Tyroleans and Ladins from Italy, Rhaetians in Switzerland, Sorbs from Germany, the German minority in Russia, Occitans in France and the Slovene minority in Carinthia, Austria) will compete in both the men’s and women’s competition. The Cornish from the UK will be represented by their women’s team. 17 minorities will have a team only in the men’s tournament: the Croatian minority in Austria, Pomaks in Bulgaria, the Danish minority and the North Frisians in Germany, the German minority in Denmark, the Roma, German and Slovak minorities in Hungary, the Serbian minority in Croatia, the German minority in Poland, Hungarians and Aromanians in Romania, Croats in Serbia, the Cimbrean people and the Slovenes in Italy, the Hungarians in Slovakia and the Crimean Tatars. More...
The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) paid a fact-finding mission to Moscow, Russia in order to examine the application of the “Qumuqlar”, the NGO which represents the Kumyk Turks in Russia. Regarding the application of “Qumuqlar”, as the Vice- President responsible for membership applications, Habip Oğlu met with the Kumyks in Moscow. More...
It is important for the minorities to not only show their cultural heritage, but also to openly discuss the problems they face – said FUEN President Loránt Vincze on Wednesday at the opening of the ProEtnica intercultural festival in Sighisoara – Segesvár – Schäßburg, Romania. During its existence, the festival, now at its 17th edition evolved from a popular dance festival into a forum where the minorities from Romania and Europe can get to know each other, while also presenting their culture. More...
By Nick Hazelrigg. At Metropolitan State University, the Student Senate fell apart after continued internal disputes and arguments with the administration over vacant minority affairs positions. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Senator Kamala Harris, a California Democrat running for president, has proposed giving billions of dollars to historically black colleges and other minority-serving institutions. More...Apart from the financial support, giving priority to less widely spoken languages in the EU funding programmes and creating a special programme for smaller language communities would also be a political endorsement of the Frisian, Low Saxon, Limburgish communities by the European Union. More...
The two-day conference brought together high level representatives from international organizations and state governments as well as language commissioners, ombudsmen, experts and members of community organizations from around the world. The event explores the pivotal role of language ombudsmen in the protection of minority-language communities and as indispensable tools for societal integration, peace building and conflict prevention in multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic societies. More...
Parliamentary State Secretary of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior, Development and Community Stephan Mayer visited the FUEN offices is Flensburg on Tuesday, 18 June 2019. This was the State Secretary’s first visit to Flensburg/Flensborg. More...
In his keynote speech at the FUEN Congress 2019 German state secretary in the Ministry of Interior and Development Stephan Mayer congratulated Hartmut Koschyk on receiving the FUEN Prize. He also congratulated FUEN on its 70th anniversary, saying that in an age when nationalism and populism are on the rise again there is a great need for organizations such as FUEN. More...
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