At the European Day of Languages, in the European Parliament in Brussels, the “Language Diversity Team” engaged in an action to raise more awareness for the importance of linguistic diversity in general and for the particular importance of the smaller and smallest languages.

Arbeitssitzung „Toleranz und Nicht-Deskriminierung, nationale Minderheiten, Bekämpfung des aggressiven Nationalismus, Rassismus und Chauvinismus"

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In einer gemeinsamen Aktion des Dachverbandes der europäischen Minderheiten FUEN (Federal Union of European Nationalities) und der SSW, die Partei der Friesen und der dänischen Minderheit, werden heute in Flensburg Plakate geklebt. Plakate der Solidarität mit den Sinti und Roma.

"We fail to understand the answer. We do by no means agree to the opinion that our proposal falls manifestly outside the framework of the Commission’s powers. We are disappointed but we will continue our campaign for minority rights"

FUEN president Hans Heinrich Hansen and vice presidents Loránt Vincze, Paul Dieter Küssner and Halit Habipoglu concluded their visit in Tirgu-Mures / Marosvásárhely / Neumarkt in Transylvania with a joint press conference together with László Borbély, vice president of RMDSZ, the Hungarian organisation in Romania who is also the president of the Dr Bernády György Cultural Foundation.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE: We are waiting in eager anticipation for an answer: according to the rules, the European Commission has time till Monday to give a response to our European Citizens’ Initiative – the MINORITY SAFEPACK INITIATIVE. Can we start and collect the one million signatures for diversity in Europe?

The mayor of the town of Târgu-Mureș, where almost half of the city population is Hungarian, refused the request of Hungarian organisations to have cultural events organised in the main square of the city