The new High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Christophe Kamp, received FUEN President, Member of the European Parliament Loránt Vincze at his office in The Hague on 21 March.

 

The FUEN President spoke about the deterioration of the situation of minorities in Europe in recent years and the European Union's refusal to protect and support autochthonous minorities. At the meeting, he presented FUEN's activities, highlighting the Minorities in the Western Balkans and the Forum of European Minority Regions, and the working groups inside FUEN. He also spoke about the challenges of the accession process of the Western Balkans and Ukraine to the EU, with a special focus on improving the situation of minorities.

 

Loránt Vincze invited the OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities to the European Parliament’s Intergroup for Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languages and to the next FUEN Annual Congress.