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Date: 17/05/2012
Opinion poll shows pro-independence parties could win an overall majority in Flanders
NEWS IN BRIEF. Conservative N-VA could garner 38.6% of votes, and anti-immigration Vlaams Belang would get a further 12%
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Date: 17/05/2012
"A language policy without outside interference": civil society defines "minimum demands" for Basque
Umbrella organization Kontseilua asks for the officialization of Basque both in Spain and France in order to designate it as “the priority language” of its territory · The body considers that this could “ensure the peaceful coexistence of all citizens”
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Date: 15/05/2012
2,000 Palestinian prisoners agree to put an end to one-month long hunger strike
Israel accepts to either release or indict people being held in prison without trial · Relatives of strikers will be allowed to visit them · Shin Bet says that prisoners have accepted “to absolutely stop terror activity from inside Israeli jails”
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Date: 10/05/2012
Group demands independence referendum in Sardinia, people ask for a new statute of autonomy
Political movement PARIS-Malu Entu collects 27,000 signatures to hold a vote on the island's secession from Italy · Sardinian voters demand further self-government and the abolition of all the provinces of the island
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Date: 07/05/2012
Pro-Danish and Frisian party holds key to government in Schleswig-Holstein
The South Schleswig Voter Federation (SSW) is necessary for the formation of the so-called “Danish traffic light” coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Green Party · SSW leader Anke Spoorendonk says the party is willing to join the coalition · The social democrats are still open to a grand coalition with the Christian Democrats (CDU).
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Date: 03/05/2012
"Our children can only study Aragonese and Catalan once the school day is over"
INTERVIEW. Miguel Martínez Tomey, Chunta Aragonesista responsible for European Affairs, says European institutions are “receptive” and “concerned about the Aragonese linguistic problem” · CHA opposes PP's policy of limiting the public role of both languages in their traditional territories
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Date: 02/05/2012
Abkhaz government claims ethnic population is coming back from Syria
NEWS IN BRIEF. People moving are descendants of 19th century muhajirs and escape civil war
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Date: 26/04/2012
The Philippines and MILF agree to establish a new autonomous region for Mindanao Moros
The Government says that a “major step” has been taken although it is not “the final peace agreement” · The self-governing entity “shall have a ministerial form of government”, wealth and power sharing will be negotiated · Further talks will be held in May
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Date: 25/04/2012
UDMR: Hungarian should be official in some areas of Transylvania within 20 years time
NEWS IN BRIEF. The Magyar party agrees that the Romanian Constitution should be amended before
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Date: 25/04/2012
Mapuche teenager wounded by army during another incursion into indigenous territory
Minor receives ten pellet shots during an action in which troops fire against local school and several homes · The municipality of Ercilla in Chile has already been attacked by the army up to 14 times during the last months · The Mapuche in Argentina praise the nationalisation of YPF oil company but want its responsibilities in social and environmental harms to be clarified.
