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• Date: 11/02/2010

  Scottish National Party shifts strategy to avoid early death for the referendum on independence bill

  

  Alex Salmond’s party is to put forward a draft instead of a referendum bill before the parliament · The move will extend the debate beyond UK general elections · As of today the vote in favour of a referendum would lose in Holyrood since opposition parties are against it.

• Date: 10/02/2010

  Bosnian Serb Assembly gives green light to referendum bill

  Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik says new legislation is not aimed at breaking bonds with Bosnia and Herzegovina · Referendums will be non-binding · It is likely the first issue to be put to referendum will deal with the Dayton Agreement · The act stirs distrust in Bosnia and Herzegovina and among the international community.

• Date: 09/02/2010

  Wales to hold referendum on transfer of powers

  The majority of MP’s in the Welsh assembly voted in favour of asking the people whether more powers should be transferred from London to Cardiff · There is no date for the referendum, but it seems clear that it won’t be held before UK legislative elections due in summer.

• Date: 08/02/2010

  Greenland lays foundations for full sovereignty

  

  Greenlandic deputies in the Parliament of Denmark call for negotiations on Greenland’s inhibition in Danish domestic affairs to start · Recent estimate predict that oil and mineral-related profits could soon exceed Danish subsidies.

• Date: 04/02/2010

  Wales ready to be transferred powers on language issues

  

  The Welsh Assembly is to be granted powers to legislate on the promotion of the Welsh language on February 10, which to date have been retained by London · A Commissioner for the Welsh language is to be appointed and will ensure public bodies and private companies from telecommunication and transport sectors use Welsh.

• Date: 02/02/2010

  Catalan language, honorary guest in Expolangues 2010

  NEWS IN BRIEF. It is the first time a non-state language is given such status.

• Date: 18/01/2010

  Official status for Catalan in the EU is a must, Catalan government says

  

  Vice-President of Catalonia Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira invited the representatives of the EU state members to reflect on 'the anomaly' of excluding Catalan from the languages with official status in Europe · Next European Commissioner for Culture, Education and Multilingualism says EU has to 'go beyond' the number of languages currently recognized by the Union.

• Date: 13/01/2010

  Italian and Austrian dual citizenship requested by government party in South Tyrol

  NEWS IN BRIEF. The SVP has launched a signature petition campaign and held talks with an Austrian parliamentary commission.

• Date: 12/01/2010

  Cyprus runs out of chances for reunification

  Governments from the island’s Greek and Turkish areas have started the last round of talks before the presidential elections in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus · Greek Cypriots have rejected a proposal made by Turks while sensitive issues such as borders and land ownership are yet to be dealt with.

• Date: 23/12/2009

  Pro-Kurdish deputies of banned DTP to stay in Turkish Parliament as BDP members

  

  The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), set up last May, will be the parliamentary group of the Kurdish deputies as long as independent deputy Ufuk Uras joins it · Kurds threatened to leave the parliament after the Turkish Constitutional Court shut down the DTP party and banned 37 of its members from politics.