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The Netherlands should strengthen the use of Frisian, Limburgish and Low Saxon, and support Romanes and Yiddish
European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
8 February 2023
Strasbourg
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages has published its seventh report on the Netherlands, highlighting how the use of Frisian, Limburgish, Low Saxon, Romanes and Yiddish should be strengthened. The report, which welcomes the on-going discussions on the extension of the Charter...
Twenty-five years of ensuring equality in law and in fact for national minorities
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
1 February 2023
Strasbourg
The violent break-up of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s consolidated the resolve in the Council of Europe to draft a dedicated legally binding treaty for the protection of national minorities. This is how, twenty-five years ago, the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities was...
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