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[Harold F. Schiffman]

ETHNIC MINORITIES AND AUSTRIA'S STATUS AS THE PROTECTING POWER OF SOUTH
TYROL TO BE INCLUDED IN NEW AUSTRIAN CONSTITUTION
Biel / Bienne 1/19/2005 by Peter Josika

Austria is currently in the process of changing it's constitution. An
important element of the new constitution will be a minority protection
clause. In the meantime the Austrian Social Democrats, the senior opposition
SPÖ, have announced their support for the inclusion of Austria's role as the
protecting power of the majority German-speaking province of South Tyrol
into the constitution.


TEN MILLION EURO FOR THE BANK WHICH USES GALICIAN
Cangas 1/19/2005 by Alexandre Giráldez

To the financial mind of a bank, how profitable is it to use a lesser-used
language such as Galician? Now there is an answer: ten million euros. It is
the approximate amount of funds that the Galician language NGO A Mesa pola
Normalización Lingüística says its Galician-speaking supporters have in
their accounts and savings. Faced with only the token use of Galician by
banks, this NGO aims to bring together all those bank customers who are
ready to change their account to a bank which communicates to them in
Galician.


ROMANIA: NEW GOVERNMENT SET TO ACT IN FAVOUR OF MINORITIES
Cluj/Kolozsvár/Klausenburg 1/18/2005 by Áron Balló

The beginning of the New Year sees the new Romanian Government starting out
on an ambitious programme. It aims not only to fulfill the requirements of
EU accession and ending corruption, but it also gives hope for improving the
situation of ethnic minorities.


LANGUAGE INTERGROUP TO WORK MORE CLOSELY WITH THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
Strassburg / Strasbourg 1/17/2005 by Simone Klinge

The new European Parliament Intergroup for National Minorities,
Constitutional Regions and Regional Languages met in Strasbourg on Thursday
with representatives from the Council of Europe's European Charter for
Regional and Minority Languages (ECRML) to hear an update on progress with
the Charter and to exchange views on its capabilities. The Intergroup and
the Council of Europe's ECRML Secretariat agreed to work more closely
together.


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