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Date: 08/06/2009
Pro-sovereignty candidates see their support grow in the European Parliament
Scottish National Party, the Welsh Plaid Cymru, Catalan Convergència i Unió and the New Flemish Alliance, among the parties with seats in the “Eurochamber” · In France, the list Europe Écologie, with Basque, Occitan and Breton candidates, comes third, close behind the Socialist Party.
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Date: 05/06/2009
Basque language is no longer the teaching language in education
The High Court of the Basque Country suspends decrees establishing Basque language as the teaching language in primary and high school education · The Court accepted for consideration the complaints filed by Plataforma por la Libertad de Elección Lingüística.
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Date: 03/06/2009
Pro-independence party wins Greenland’s elections
Inuit Ataqatigiit, a leftist pro-independence party, removes from government social democrats, in power for the last 30 years · These are the first elections after last November’s referendum, which granted self-government and self-determination for the island.
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Date: 03/06/2009
PKK extends unilateral ceasefire to negotiate a peaceful resolution for the Kurdish issue
NEWS IN BRIEF. A Turkish general replies that Ankara is "determined to eradicate" the Kurdish rebels
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Date: 29/05/2009
Peoples and nations today: Basque Country
DOSSIER. The Basque Country stretches far beyond the current territory known as Euskadi or Basque Autonomous Community. Euskal Herria –literally, “the country of the Basque language”– is divided into 7 territories: Biscay, Guipuzcoa, Alava and Navarre, all of them under Spanish rule, and Low Navarre, Lapurdi and Zuberoa or Iparralde, under French administration. The coining of the famous pro-Basque slogan Zazpiak bat (the seven ones [are] one), which calls for the unification of the Basque nation beyond state borders, was due to such administrative division.
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Date: 27/05/2009
Minorities increasingly leave Kosovo due to discrimination
A report issued by Minority Rights Group says the new State does not properly protect minorities and that many of them are finding refuge beyond Kosovo’s borders · Bosniaks, Serbs, Croats, Gorani and Roma are among the most affected communities.
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Date: 27/05/2009
World Congress of Crimean Tatars closes after setting up an international NGO
NEWS IN BRIEF. The new organisation will co-ordinate worldwide Tatar associations.
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Date: 26/05/2009
The Sardinian Action Party proposes a motion for independence in the Regional Council
NEWS IN BRIEF. The island’s pro-independence parties will boycott European elections.
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Date: 22/05/2009
DOSSIER. Ahead of the European parliamentary elections, Nationalia offers a summary of the main nationalist parties representing European stateless nations. Far from being a thorough account, the outlook just aims at listing some of the parties committed to turn Europe into a union of peoples and a space of diversity
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Date: 21/05/2009
Peruvian government authorizes military intervention amid indigenous continual protests
Amazonian peoples, on hunger strike for over 40 days, have called for the laws allowing oil extraction in their territory to be repealed by the government · A commission made up of indigenous and cabinet members has been set up · “Violation of indigenous rights in Peru” has been reported to United Nations by the Andean Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations.
