Eurolang articles

[Harold F. Schiffman]

CATALAN SCHOOL BOY TAKEN TO MADRID HIGH COURT ON "TERRORISM" CHARGE
Barcelona 12/16/2004 by Alexia Bos Solé

Representatives of several Catalan language organisations together with some
independentist and nationalist Catalan MPs escorted a 14-year-old teenager
accused of ‘terrorism’ from Girona to Madrid yesterday. The boy was accused
in November for alleged ‘terrorist’ threats when sending several e-mails to
some Spanish companies, as reported on Eurolang, when he asked for their
labelling to be in the Catalan language.


AUSTRIAN SLOVENES PROTEST AGAINST GOVERNMENT FAILURE TO ACT OVER BILINGUAL
SIGNAGE
Wien 12/15/2004 by Peter Josika

Members of the Slovene community of the town of St Kanzian/Skocjan in
Carinthia, Austria demonstrated their dissatisfaction about government
inaction on Monday’s third anniversary of a decision issued by the
constitutional court on bilingual signage.


NEW REPORT ON ASTURIAN
Barcelona 12/15/2004 by Alexia Bos Solé

The International Committee for the Safeguarding of Linguistic Rights in
Asturies has issued a report with recommendations regarding the promotion of
the use of Asturian language.


FAR-REACHING SPANISH GOVERNMENT PROPOSALS PAVE WAY FORWARD FOR EUROPE’S
MINORITISED LANGUAGES
Brussel / Bruxelles 12/14/2004 by Davyth Hicks and Eva Martínez

The Spanish Government tabled its memorandum proposing EU official status
for Catalan, Basque and Galician languages to EU Foreign Ministers meeting
in Brussels yesterday. In addition, they called for the languages to be
included under the EU ‘Lingua’ programme. The proposals could have
far-reaching and positive effects for Europe’s other minoritised languages.
The Irish Government also made their proposals for official status for
Irish. The Council has now requested the Permanent Representatives Committee
to examine the requests.


3,000 IN PROTEST CALLING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BASQUE EDUCATION IN
IPARRALDE
Brussels 12/13/2004 by Davyth Hicks

3,000 Basque language supporters demonstrated in Baiona (Bayonne) in the
Northern Basque Country (Iparralde) on Saturday calling for the development
of Basque-medium education and official recognition of the language.




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