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Date: 10/07/2008
French Assembly again votes in favour of including regional languages in Constitution
The clause “Regional languages are part of France’s heritage” to be included in Article 75 · The amendment will receive a second reading in the Senate in the next few days · A few weeks ago the Senate rejected a similar amendment to Article 1.
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Date: 08/07/2008
New Serbian Prime Minister promises to ‘keep Kosovo and Metohija’ in the Republic of Serbia
German Minister for Europe says Serbia must ‘recognize Kosovo independence’ before the Balkan country is granted EU membership · Kosovar President asks Belgrade to change its attitude.
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Date: 07/07/2008
Tension between Georgia and Abkhazia rises and violence spreads towards South Ossetia
Official Abkhaz sources claim bomb blast killed four, while Tbilisi and Ossetian leaders accuse each other of perpetrating ‘terrorist attacks’ · Germany presents peace proposal for Abkhazia.
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Date: 01/07/2008
Asturian Philology at the University of Oviedo under threat
Head of Philology Faculty resigns after Board votes to end Asturian Studies at the capital’s university · Following protests by student organizations and Asturian language supporters, the rector says he hopes a compromise will be reached.
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Date: 30/06/2008
Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander resigns
One of the most important questions following Alexander’s resignation will be whether Scottish Labour backs a referendum on independence · Alexander failed to declare donations received during the last elections · Local by-election in Glasgow will be seen as a test for Gordon Brown in Westminster.
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Date: 27/06/2008
Azerbaijan’s marginalized peoples battle against discrimination
Avars, Tsakhurs, and Lezgins express concern over marginalization of non-Azeri communities · Azeri Government accused of restricting freedom of expression and pursuing policies of ‘Azericization’ and ethnic cleansing · Council of Europe warns that Azerbaijan’s human rights record is getting worse.
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Date: 26/06/2008
Euskadi Parliament approves referendum with the support of the Basque nationalist left
Ezker Abertzalea, highly critical of Ibarretxe’s proposal, claims the Spanish Government will halt any referendum and that ‘the Basque Country’s right to decide has no place in the [Spanish] Constitution’ · The Spanish state is expected to oppose the proposal in the next few days.
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Date: 25/06/2008
Russia’s ‘dirty war’ in Ingushetia increasingly similar to Chechen conflict
According to Human Rights Watch, Russia’s counter-insurgency tactics include killings, torture and disappearances · Several sources suggest that a new war in the North Caucasus may be imminent.
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Date: 23/06/2008
First round of unilateral consultations on autonomy in Bolivia comes to an end
Referendum held last weekend in Tarija, one of Bolivia’s richest departments due to its reserves of natural gas · Evo Morales’ Government keen to remind opposition supporters that such consultations are unconstitutional · Prefects of four autonomist departments to campaign against a recall election for departmental and state officials.
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Date: 23/06/2008
Galicia, Brittany and Wales request their own domain names from ICANN
Galicia, Brittany and Wales attempt to show that they fulfil requirements for top-level domains at the 32nd International ICANN Meeting · With its ‘Catalan culture’ domain Catalonia is currently the only stateless nation with its own top-level domain.
