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• Date: 06/11/2009

  Tamazight from Melilla will have allocation in Spain’s Budget

  

  Resources will be assigned to its promotion and dissemination, but not to language learning in schools · The budget amendment has been proposed by ERC, and has been approved with the support of IU-ICV and PSOE · Minister for Education says the money will fund training for teachers to reduce school failure.

• Date: 06/11/2009

  Alliance with independentists dismissed by Party of the Corsican Nation

  NEWS IN BRIEF. Polls predict good results for pro-autonomy PNC and a significant loss of support for pro-independence party Corsica Libera.

• Date: 04/11/2009

  Basque is swept away as medium language in schools

  

  Patxi Lopez’s government makes several changes in decrees on education · Castilian and Basque Country’s own language are made equal and the term 'Euskal Herria' will no longer have political meaning · The Basque Minister for Education backs the initiative against Basque language arguing it is a measure to stop nationalist brainwashing in schools.

• Date: 03/11/2009

  The Serbian Parliament will finally discuss on the Statute of Vojvodina

  

  Before reaching the parliament, the Serbian government will amend the bill, which was approved by the Assembly of Vojvodina last year · President of Vojvodina says 'all dilemmas and disputes have been resolved' · One of the parties in the province’s coalition government has threatened to vote against an amended Statute.

• Date: 02/11/2009

  Scottish Liberal Democrats say no to referendum

  

  It has been decided in a special close-door session several days after some party officials expressed their backing in public · Alex Salmond will find it difficult to hold the plebiscite next year due to lack of parliamentary support.

• Date: 29/10/2009

  The Parliament of the German community in Belgium postpones State reforms for 4 months

  

  The German-speaking minority of Belgium puts off debate on controversial Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde constituency until February as Flemish and Walloons fail to reach an agreement on the issue · The decision spares Belgium a new political crisis and irritates Flemish parties.

• Date: 26/10/2009

  More than 20,000 people demonstrate in Carcassonne in favour of Occitan

  

  It is considered the most attended demonstration in the history of occitanism · Cultural organizations, Occitan medium schools and political representatives took part in it · The Institute of Occitan Studies expressed concerns about unfulfilled promises as regards language recognition, in reference to the mention of 'regional languages' in the French Constitution.

• Date: 21/10/2009

  Turkish court releases PKK fighters who crossed the border from Iraq

  It is a new step towards the end of the Kurdish conflict · The judge ruled on Tuesday rebels could not be held 'because they returned under their own free will' · 8 rebels crossed the border from PKK bases in Northern Iraq alongside a group of Kurdish refugees · They arrived in a gesture of commitment with the peace process.

• Date: 19/10/2009

  Rally to protect Galician language records top attendance

  

  A crowd took to the streets of Santiago de Compostela bearing slogans in favour of the 'right to live in Galician' and against the autonomous government's language policies · Galician media highlight the plurality within the march, which was attended by all political parties in opposition.

• Date: 16/10/2009

  Peoples and nations today: Gagauzia

  

  DOSSIER. DOSSIER. The Gagauzians are the only people in the world that is granted a 'conditional' right to self-determination: as an autonomous entity within Moldova, Gagauzia can freely break away if Moldova eventually decides to merge into Romania.