ELEN Press Releases
ELEN continues campaign for EU official status for Catalan, Galician and Basque. Process “irreversible” says Spanish FM Albares.
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...
ELEN warns MEPs on impact of second homes and lack of housing on endangered and minoritised languages
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...
Thousands demonstrate in Roazhon, Brittany, in support of Diwan Breton-medium schools.
Schoolchildren from across Brittany marched through Roazhon (Rennes), the Breton capital, on Saturday (May 17th) joined by a range of organisations representing the Breton cultural movement in support of the Diwan Breton immersion schools. Despite being voted several...
FOSTERLANG: the new EU Horizon project aiming to boost Europe’s minoritised languages.
ELEN is delighted to announce the launch of FOSTERLANG, the new three-million-euro flagship European project aiming to boost minoritised languages and foster Europe's linguistic capital, which launched on May 1st 2025. The project, financed by the European Commission...
ELEN fact-finding mission verifies systemic discrimination against the Turkish national minority in Greece.
The European Language Equality Network, represented by President Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones and Secretary-General Davyth Hicks, held a very productive and informative set of meetings with Turkish national minority representatives and religious leaders in western Thrace...
ELEN at the UN UPR calls on Spain for effective protection for Catalan, Basque and Galician.
ELEN had a large delegation at the UN Universal Periodic Review on Spain held this week at the UN in Geneva. The ELEN Report to the UPR makes a range of recommendations to Spain for better protection for Catalan, Basque and Galician, including revoking the Rovira Law...
Spain under the spotlight at the UN and at ELEN UPR side-event over language rights contraventions.
The European Language Equality Network will be holding an official side-event with member organisations – Plataforma per la Llengua (Catalonia), Kontseilua (Basque Country) and A Mesa pola Normalización Lingüística (Galicia) - on April 29th at the UN in Geneva to...
ELEN at the EESC Civil Society Week.
ELEN was at the EESC - European Economic and Social Committee Civil Society Week in March, which featured four days of discussions and presentations on how we better develop effective working relations between European civil society organisations and the EU...
UN Forum for Minority Issues: packed ELEN-ECMI side-event addresses concerns over minoritized language media
The European Language Equality Network, the international civil society organization working for the protection of European minoritized and endangered languages, held a side-event with the European Centre for Minority Issues on minoritized language media at last...
UN Forum for Minority Issues: ELEN calls for new UN Convention to protect minoritized, endangered and indigenous languages.
The European Language Equality Network, the international civil society organization working for the protection of European indigenous minoritised languages, has called for a new UN Convention to protect minoritised languages amidst an exponential rise in hate-speech...
ELEN Batzar Orokorra – General Assembly BILBO 2024.
Language activist organizations from across Europe gathered in the Basque Country for the ELEN General Assembly 2024, Europe’s main event for NGOs working for the protection and promotion of European minoritized languages. The European Language Equality Network (ELEN)...
European Language Equality Network backs Kontseilua Resolution that Basque is in a “linguistic emergency.”
At the 2024 European Language Equality Network (ELEN) General Assembly on Saturday (November 9th) in Bilbo, hosted by the Basque NGO Euskalgintzaren Kontseilua, ELEN delegates from across Europe voted in support of the Kontseilua Resolution that "Basque and the...