ELEN Press Releases
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...
ELEN GENERAL ASSEMBLY- BATZAR OROKORRA, BILBO 2024, EUSKAL HERRIA.
Language activist organizations from across Europe are set to gather in the Basque Country for the ELEN General Assembly, Europe’s main event for NGOs working for the protection and promotion of European minoritized languages. The European Language Equality Network...
ELEN-Catesco Conference Report. Civil society organisations, international institutions and legal experts discuss methods to protect education in minoritized languages and strengthen language rights.
The ELEN-Catesco conference, co-organized with Òmnium Cultural and supported by the Catalan Government, held on June 15th in Barcelona focused on how European civil society organisations can better protect education in endangered and minoritized languages and...
European Language Equality Network meets in Barcelona to set agenda for improved language protection.
The European Language Equality Network Steering Committee met in the Catalan capital, Barcelona, on Friday 14th June to discuss the ELEN-Catesco conference on June 15th, its ongoing advocacy strategy, recent election results, the upcoming General Assembly in the...