
Denmark increases funding for FUEN
14.01.2016Denmark will increase the annual grant for the European umbrella organisation of the autochthonous national minorities, after Germany decided to do the same at the end last year. In 2016 a grant of 50,000 Euro is available. “FUEN is very pleased with this grant and we consider this decision as further recognition of our work”, said FUEN Secretary General Susann Schenk.
Today, in the presence of Kim Andersen, the chairman of the Sydslesvigudvalget (South Schleswig Committee), the contracts are being signed. FUEN is being represented by its Vice President Dieter Paul Küssner.
The Sydslesvigudvalget has supported FUEN since 2007 and is a reliable partner. The Committee of the Danish Parliament, the Folketing, has been supporting the project House of Minorities as well for quite some time. This is a joint project of FUEN and its partners SSF and BDN that want to establish a European Centre of Minorities in the town of Flensburg.
“We hope that we are able to get the support from the Sydslesvigudvalget for the further realisation of this ambitious idea”, said Dieter Paul Küssner.
The Office of the House of Minorities is located at Norderstrasse 78 in Flensburg.
Homepage of the Sydslesvigudvalget (South Schleswig Committee)
Photos: © Anders Hviid, Folketinget.dk, Sydslesvigsk Forening




PRESS RELEASES
- FUEN mourns the passing of Traian Cresta, a leading figure of the Romanian community in Hungary
- VATAN representatives visit FUEN Brussels and raise awareness in the European Parliament
- German Bundesrat calls for inclusion of national minorities in the Basic Law
- FUEN’s European Dialogue Forum engages in political talks in Brussels
- 7th Annual Meeting of the FUEN Working Group on Education to be held in Western Thrace (Greece)
- Reception at the FUEN Office in Brussels on the Occasion of the European Day of Languages
- European Parliament Event Calls for Stronger Protection of Minority Languages on European Day of Languages
- In memoriam Ivan Budinčević
- Women of Minorities: New Women for a New World
- FUEN Delegation Holds Political Talks in Berlin