ELEN Press Releases
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...
Huge majority of Europeans, 84%, support protection for ‘regional’or minoritised languages, its time for the EU to act on that.
With 84% of Europeans agreeing that European endangered languages need to be protected, its vital that political parties act on this huge public support in the next European Parliament. ELEN, the international civil society organization for the protection and...
UN Special Rapporteur, Council of Europe, UNESCO in Barcelona for ELEN-CATESCO high level conference on strengthening language rights.
The UN Special Rapporteur for Minorities, the Council of Europe, UNESCO, and international experts on language rights will be in Barcelona on June 15th to speak at the ELEN-CATESCO International High Level Conference on protecting education in minoritized languages...
UN Forum on Minority Issues: ELEN calls for clear, unambiguous language rights and progressive language planning
This year’s UN Forum on Minority Issues focused on “Minorities and Cohesive Societies: Equality, Social Inclusion, and Socio-economic Participation” on 30 November and 1 December 2023 in Geneva. ELEN was strongly represented with the ELEN President, Secretary-General,...
Safeguarding European Indigenous Minority Languages, ELEN co-hosts languages event with national governments.
On Tuesday 28 November 2023, the Office of the Northern Ireland Executive Brussels, Channel Islands Brussels Office, Scottish Government Brussels, Welsh Government Brussels Office, the Isle of Man Government, and ELEN co-hosted a packed evening panel discussion event...
ELEN calls on Italy to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages at its meeting in Sardinia.
The European Language Equality Network’s (ELEN) General Assembly in Cagliari has officially called on Italy to ratify the Council of Europe’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) in the presence of the UN, Council of Europe, the EU, and called...
ELEN at a pedire sa ratifica italiana de sa Carta europea de sas limbas regionales o minoritàrias (ECRML) e unu agiudu globale pro su recùperu de sa limba sarda in s’Assemblea generale chi at èssere fata in Casteddu custa chida.
Su tema de prus importu de ocannu, ospitadu dae s’Assòtziu Babel e dae su Babel Film Festival, est su recùperu efetivu de sa limba, chi ast a cumintzare cun unu atòbiu, a sa presèntzia de su reladore ispetziale de sas Natziones Unidas subra sas minorias, su...
ELEN set to call on Italy to ratify the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages at its General Assembly in Sardinia.
ELEN is set to call for the ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) and comprehensive support for Sardinian language recovery at its General Assembly in Casteddu (Cagliari) this week. The overarching theme of this year’s...
European Language Equality Network calls on all EU Member-States to back Spain’s proposal to make Catalan, Basque and Galician EU official languages
PRESS STATEMENT. Monday 18th September, European Parliament, Brussels. The European Language Equality Network (ELEN) welcomes the proposal by Spain for the inclusion of Catalan, Basque and Galician as full, working EU-official languages, and together with its members:...
Catalan, Basque and Galician – the next EU official languages? ELEN Press Conference, 18th September.
The European Language Equality Network (ELEN) and its member organisations that represent Catalan, Basque and Galician, will be holding a press conference next Monday 18th September at 16.00 in the press centre of the European Parliament, Brussels. The organisations...
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe celebrates 25th anniversary of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) on Thursday (27th April) with a hearing featuring the PACE President, Council of Europe DG Democracy and Human Rights,...