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• Date: 18/12/2012

  Catalan nearing 10 million speakers in increasingly "adverse sociopolitical environment"

  

  A 2011 report by CRUSCAT says language has now about 750,000 more speakers than a decade ago · Great social “attractiveness” of the language pointed out as reason · Positive trends in Valencia and the Balearic Islands could be endangered by Popular Party's language policies · Highest levels of knowledge of Catalan to be found in inner Catalonia, Menorca and Franja, while Alacant, Eivissa and Northern Catalonia are in the opposite situation

• Date: 17/12/2012

  Albanian census finds 24,000 Greeks in country, organizations protest

  

  Omonoia says the results have been falsified in order to downplay the number of Greeks · 14% of people have refused to state their ethnicity · Albanian authorities underline that the census has been free and fair

• Date: 13/12/2012

  Cymdeithas says census results prove that "Welsh faces a crisis"

  

  Celtic language is now spoken by 19% of the population of Wales, two percentage points less than in 2001 · The government considers that “the future of Welsh lies with the children and young people” · Cymdeithas: “The fall in all the counties in the West is a matter of great concern”

• Date: 12/12/2012

  Catholics about to overtake Protestants in Northern Ireland

  

  Gap between both communities at only 3 percentage points · Almost half of the respondents declare British national identity · Northern Irish national identity almost matching Irish national identity · One in ten inhabitants have some knowledge of Irish, only 0.24% consider it to be their main language

• Date: 11/12/2012

  Two out of three inhabitants of Wales consider Welsh to be their national identity

  

  57.5% state that Wales is their only nation, with highest proportions in the south east and lowest in the north east · Almost 14% of people in Cornwall declare a Cornish national identity · Englishness more than doubles Britishness in England · London emerges as the stronghold of the British national identity

• Date: 10/12/2012

  Romanian PM eyes agreement with Hungarian party after landslide election win

  

  USL and UDMR could reach a two-thirds majority that would allow them to amend the Constitution · Hungarian leader agrees to “start talks” with premier Ponta after securing more than 5% of the votes · Second Hungarian party below 1%

• Date: 29/11/2012

  Veneto to hold referendum on self-determination if allowed by laws

  

  Regional Council calls for "international relations with EU and UN to guarantee the holding of a vote" · Venetian president warns that current legal framework does not allow to, still adds that he would vote "yes" to secession · Independent group of lawyers to be appointed in order to examine legal possibilities · Sardinian party proposes that the island declares independence from Italy

• Date: 29/11/2012

  Hungarian Jews to sue Jobbik MP who called to "tally up" them

  Márton Gyöngyösi says he only referred to Israeli-Hungarian dual citizens

• Date: 27/11/2012

  "We are going to realise the project of Albanian national unity through the EU"

  

  Sali Berisha promises a de facto Greater Albania in the framework of the process of European integration during the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Albanian Independence · Hashim Thaci says Kosovo will be the guarantor of the rights of Albanians in Macedonia and Serbia · Belgrade proposes to reopen the Kosovar question through "a new Dayton"

• Date: 26/11/2012

  Alsace heading for increased autonomy

  

  Large majority of Alsatian political representatives approve to propose the establishment of a territorial collectivity and the merger of current region and departments · Reform could give Alsace regulatory, non legislative, powers · A referendum on the proposal will be organized next April