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Date: 15/02/2008
European Commission holds first-ever Ministerial Conference on Multilingualism
The Commission and ministers from European Union member states will discuss a report on the importance of promoting intercultural dialogue and the notion of a “personal adoptive language”.
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Date: 14/02/2008
Pro-independence Basque left calls general strike
Basque nationalists, or ‘abertzales’, are protesting against the “judicial, political and police repression” faced by Batasuna and its sympathizers.
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Date: 13/02/2008
Political instability threatens Ingushetia
Human Rights Center ‘Memorial’ has accused the Ingush authorities of “not seeing the real problems of the republic as challenges but as threats to its leadership”.
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Date: 13/02/2008
Hostile response to restrictions on Breton and Gallo education in Brittany
The Academy of Rennes, the education authority representing the French Republic in the region, has recently announced that as of next year fourteen centres will no longer provide teaching in Breton and Gallo, Britanny’s two territorial languages.
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Date: 12/02/2008
Galicia a step closer to its own .gal domain
This week New Delhi is hosting a conference of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The PuntoGal Association, which calls for a .gal domain to ensure the presence of Galician culture and language on the Net, will be making its voice heard.
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Date: 12/02/2008
Australian Parliament apologizes to Aborigines
In an unprecedented move, the Prime Minister will express his regret for the 'profound grief, suffering and loss' inflicted upon the indigenous Australian population.
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Date: 11/02/2008
'Dead language' spoken by over 10,000 in Aragon
Zona on es parla l'aragonès
Aragonese “is not a living language”, according to the organizers of Expo Zaragoza 2008.
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Date: 11/02/2008
Unione Naziunale, the coalition made up of Corsican autonomist and separatist parties, has dissolved just one month ahead of local elections.
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Date: 08/02/2008
Pro-independence Basque leftist parties made illegal
The 'Audiencia Nacional', the court reserved for terrorist cases in the Spanish justice system, has banned the two parties that represent the pro-independence left, namely Basque Nationalist Action and the Basque Lands Communist Party.
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Date: 07/02/2008
Wales launches a new tool for participating in language legislation
Wiki Deddfu - Wiki Lawmaking, a project based on the same technology as Wikipedia, intends to allow everyone to participate in drawing up a new Welsh language act. On a completely bilingual site, Welsh people can suggest specific legislation, report cases of linguistic discrimination and discuss the current state and needs of the Welsh language.
