FUEN CONGRESS 2021
26.10.2023In 2021, the Annual Congress of the Federal Union of European Nationalities took place in Trieste/Trst, Italy between 9-12 September.
Trieste/ Trst is the capital of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, currently home to 200,000 people. Besides the Italian majority, the largest minority community are the Slovenes. Their organisation, SSO was the host of the congress.
The event’s topics included the future of Europe’s cultural and linguistic diversity, education models of European minorities and a panel on the Slovenes in Italy.
The FUEN Prize was awarded to UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Fernand de Varennes.
Due to the restrictions still in place because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the congress was organised in a hybrid format, delegates from countries with travel restrictions were able to follow the Assembly of Delegates live and to cast their votes in the online system.
PRESS RELEASES
- FUEN TAG Spokesperson Habip Oğlu met with Ambassador Vaqif Sadıqov, Head of Mission of Azerbaijan to the European Union
- FUEN Congress 2025 to take place in Bozen/Bulsan/Bolzano
- FUEN Education Working Group visits Belgium’s German-speaking Community
- Natalie Pawlik concludes her term as Federal Commissioner for Matters Related to Resettlers and National Minorities
- Turkic minorities and communities will gather in Varna, Bulgaria
- The Working Group of Hungarian Communities in FUEN held its annual meeting in Rijeka, Croatia
- Minorities without a kin-state gather in South Tyrol
- Happy Easter from FUEN!
- FUEN hosts Coordination Meeting on Minority Issues in Brussels
- We mourn the loss of Erika Weber