Oct 11, 2025 | Press releases |
At the September session of the 60th UN Human Rights Council held in Geneva, Spain adopted several recommendations from different states made under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on protecting minoritized languages. It marks a breakthrough by having a State,...
Oct 9, 2025 | Press releases |
The new EU-funded Fosterlang project was successfully launched in Wilamovice, Poland with an inaugural event that gathered representatives from across Europe, including from ELEN and several of its member organisations, as well as featuring presentations from...
Oct 6, 2025 | Press releases |
On September 23 and 24, 2025, the Opole regional assembly hosted the Congress on National Minorities, an event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Act on National and Ethnic Minorities and Regional Languages, and given an international dimension with the...
Sep 5, 2025 | Press releases |
FOSTERLANG, the new EU-funded Horizon project aiming to boost European endangered and minoritised languages, will be holding its inaugural project opening and conference in the town of Wilamowice, Poland, home to the endangered Wymysiöeryś language, from 25-27th...
May 30, 2025 | Press releases |
Meeting at the EU General Affairs Council on Tuesday (May 27th) EU Member-States decided to postpone voting on EU official status for Catalan, Galician and Basque. After the meeting the Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares declared that the process of official...
May 26, 2025 | Press releases |
ELEN Secretary-General Davyth Hicks warned about the impact of second homes and the lack of housing on European endangered and minoritised languages at an important European Parliament conference last week (May 21st). It follows recent visits to Brussels by Gaeltacht...
