Circa 60 participants – among them several Members of the European Parliament – accepted the invitation of FUEN President Hans Heinrich Hansen and Iuliu Winkler, Member of the European Parliament on behalf of RMDSZ/EPP. Together they discussed in Brussels about the rejection of the citizens’ initiative “Minority SafePack Initiative” by the European Commission.

Twelve of the representatives who were elected at the FUEN Assembly of Delegates in Brixen in June had a meeting in the European Parliament in Brussels on 25 September 2013.

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.