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• Date: 15/04/2013

  EFA party agrees on 2014 manifesto, recognition of EU internal enlargement core demand

  

  Valencian Nationalist Bloc and New Canaries accepted as new members of European party · Recent electoral trends could help EFA in increasing number of MEPs

• Date: 07/04/2013

  Alsatians reject a proposal to establish a new Council of Alsace

  

  Department of Haut-Rhin says "no" to the plan, while "yes" wins in Bas-Rhin though required threshold is not cleared · Turnout below 40% in both departments · Had voters backed the proposal, Alsace could have taken on some powers from Paris

• Date: 19/03/2013

  Pro-independence minister: the goal for 2014 is to get "full autonomy" for Flanders

  

  Bourgeois asks for the transfer of fiscal policy, employment policy and social security · NV-A president De Wever says his party does not want full independence next year, but a "big step" ahead · Flemish PM prefers to focus on current state reform

• Date: 13/03/2013

  Greenland gives power back to former ruling party

  

  Siumut plans to introduce more taxes to foreign mining companies, wants to limit arrival of guest workers · Ruling IA party had passed a law that could bring 2,300 foreign workers to mine iron ore in 2015 · Siumut success could open new expectations for uranium mining

• Date: 12/03/2013

  Falklanders near unanimously vote for retaining UK overseas status

  

  99.8% of islanders oppose changing current situation · Cameron: Argentina should take "careful note" of the vote · Buenos Aires to issue refusal statement, argues Falklanders are not entitled to any collective "democratic right"

• Date: 11/03/2013

  Thousands take to the streets of the Catalan Countries for linguistic rights

  

  Associations and trade unions assert fight for Catalan, oppose Spanishization of education · Campaigners argue Catalan medium education provides better command of languages than Spanish monolingualism · Spanish nationalists say the campaign is “typical of totalitarian movements”

• Date: 07/03/2013

  UK government says there is no case for substantial further devolution to Wales

  

  Conservative-Lib Dem coalition report considers Westminster should keep powers such as policing, broadcasting and energy · The Welsh government asks all powers "be devolved to Wales" except defence, constitutional and foreign affairs, social security and macroeconomics · Plaid Cymru angry with UK government position

• Date: 26/02/2013

  South Tyrol, Aosta Valley parties strong in Italian election

  

  70% of Aosta and 60% of South Tyrol votes go to non state-wide Italian lists · Sardinian nationalism slightly increases its share of vote, gets 3.4% of the ballots · Veneto pro-independence parties fail to take advantage of Northern League decline

• Date: 21/02/2013

  Solid sovereignist, pro-referendum majority in Catalonia three months after election, poll shows

  

  Leftist pro-independence parties could win up to 10 more seats if fresh elections were held, while sovereignist centre-right coalition would lose ground · 54.7% of respondents declare they would vote "yes" to independence · 57% of those asked describe their identity as "only Catalan" or "more Catalan than Spanish"

• Date: 19/02/2013

  Almost 78% of new pupils in Euskadi to have Basque as only language of instruction

  NEWS IN BRIEF. Less than 20% to be schooled with both Basque and Spanish as medium of instruction