Our candidate for the 2018-19 Advisory Council on Youth of the Council of Europe
We are proudly presenting you our candidate for the 2018-2019 Advisory Council on Youth of the Council of Europe: Matic Germovšek Matic: “I am representing YEN in the current Advisory Council mandate and would like to continue with the good work that we have started in this mandate, where I am responsible for the Roma […]
YEN has financial Problems
We need your help! We’re very sorry to tell you that YEN has massive financial problems ever since Matic (Convenor for Minority Rights and Politics) accidentally bought the most expensive first class ticket for his flight to this year’s Easter Seminar. To still be able to organise all our wonderful events, most particularly the coming […]
The Slovene Minority in Italy
At the official opening of the Kick-Off Seminar in Trst, Italy in February, we were lucky to enjoy the interesting speech of Ksenija Dobrila, a representative of the Slovene minority in Italy. The speech gives a very good picture of the situation of the Slovenes in Italy, thus we share it with you here. Enjoy! […]
New steps in the Minority Safepack Initiative
Minorities in Europe won a victory against the European Commission! The EU court judged that the Commission has to clearly define why they rejected the MSPI. Congratualtions to the citizens committee and the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN). You can read more about the initiative here: Minority SafePack Initiative
Mission: visit of the Czech minority in Daruvar (Croatia)
YEN-MAN visited the city of Daruvar, where he was the guest of the Czech minority. This proved to be a very warm welcome, because our hero met with lots of important people: representatives of the Czech National Council, the Czech Union, the weekly Czech paper of Croatia (‘Jednota’), Radio ‘Daruvar’ and even Czech representatives of […]
Auf den Spuren von Minderheitensprachen
Die Sprache spielt eine außerordentlich wichtige Rolle für Minderheiten und Volksgruppen, weil sie eine identitätsstiftende Funktion hat. Allerdings haben wir in unserem Workshop „Auf den Spuren von Minderheitensprachen“ beim diesjährigen Herbstseminar der JEV im Burgenland (Österreich) gesehen, dass es hier unterschiedlich starke Gewichtungen gibt. Für manche Minderheiten ist Sprache der zentrale Fokus, wie zum Beispiel […]