onlinestrem: http://efa.greens-efa.eu/respecting-linguistic-diversity-15524.html http://web.greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/clone-of-830-respecting-linguistic-diversity-language-discrimination-in-the-eu https://www.facebook.com/events/935043269948258 http://web.greensefa.streamovations.be/index.php/event/stream/respecting-linguistic-diversity-language-discrimination-in-the-eu             Background In January 2015 ELEN presented its Report to the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on language discrimination against co-official language speakers (Catalan, Basque and Galician) in the Spanish state. It revealed a shocking list of beatings and humiliation of people trying to use their official language with state authorities. However, the ELEN Report…

  First things first: a new president was elected! Loránt Vincze takes over as head of the Federal Union of European Nationalities. The Hungarian from Romania was elected in Wroclaw with a slim majority. 89 of the 176 eligible votes went to the politician from the party of the Hungarians in Romania. His opponent, Dieter Paul Küssner from South Schleswig,…

Az Őshonos kisebbségek, nemzeti közösségek és nyelvi munkacsoport 2016. május 12-i ülésének vendége Sixto Molina, az Európa Tanács (ET) Regionális és kisebbségi nyelvek kartájával foglalkozó részlegének [angolul: European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML)] titkárságvezetője volt, aki bemutatta a Regionális és kisebbségi nyelvek chartájának múltját, jelenét és jövőjét. Molina beszámolt a jelenlegi kihívásokról, amelyek leküzdésével a regionális és kisebbségi…

On May 2, the European Parliament will host a conference entitled “A Europe of Diasporas”. This conference concludes a year of exchange and coalition-building between organizations, academics and activists connected with the Jewish, Roma, Armenian and Assyrian diasporas in Europe. Please click here to register for the conference. The conference will feature four panels addressing such topics as addressing the educational…