Commission proposes 'European Heritage Label'
The European Heritage Label should be established as an EU-wide initiative, Culture Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou suggested yesterday (9 March), presenting plans to highlight historical sites across Europe that "symbolise European integration, ideals and history".
Call for 'civic disobedience' to save minority languages
Action at grassroots rather than EU level holds the key to ensuring the survival of minority languages such as Galician, heard a major conference at the European Parliament last week, with participants calling for an end to oppressive legislation like Slovakia's language law.
MEPs push for EU recognition of Catalan, Welsh languages
Catalan, Basque, Galician, Welsh and Scots Gaelic should be made official languages of the European Union, MEPs said last week, accusing Brussels of failing to protect "the rights of millions of speakers of non-official EU languages" and calling on the EU institutions to do "much more" to promote multilingualism.
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Digitisation of published works
The EU has been busy scanning books and documents to improve citizens' access to culture and history, but its efforts have been overshadowed by...
Sport and Intercultural Dialogue
Already accepted as a tool for social integration, sport is also seen as a means of promoting intercultural understanding in an ...
Language use in the EU
Promoting a multilingual economy, giving citizens access to European Union information in their own languages and encouraging linguistic diversity...
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