Commission proposes 'European Heritage Label'

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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

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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 ...

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The Slovak-Hungarian dispute over Slovakia’s language law

Jakub Groszkowski & Mariusz Bocian , Researchers, Centre for Eastern Studies (CES)

Nuclear weapons are anti-Islamic

Stanley Crossick, Founding chair, European Policy Centre (EPC)

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Jacques Rigaud, Deputy chairman, Robert Schuman Foundation

Ethno-religious conflict in Europe: Radicalisation in Europe’s Muslim communities

Michael Emerson et al., Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

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Marc Foglia, Groupe des Belles Feuilles