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.
Пресс релизы
- 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