This three-minute video from LiveLeak takes us through 1,000 years of history and, as it does so, highlights just how young the modern concept of Europe really is. Look out for the constant ebb and flow of the continent’s eastern borders, the speed of change at its heart, and the…
The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day was the initiative of Bangladesh. It was approved at the 1999 UNESCO General Conference and has been observed throughout the world since 2000.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from EH Bildu, PNV, ERC, Junts per Catalunya, Sinn Féin and Régions et Peuples Solidaires have presented a group in favour of the reight of self-determination, which in the next Conference over the Future of Europe a new ‘European clarity act’ aiming to “settle…
“We have to move towards a social Europe, which has to be the Europe of the peoples”, said the leader of the Front, who recalled that the right to self-determination is considered “a fundamental right”.
Under the framework of “Sovereignty Conflicts in Europe: Bases for a Solution” international conferences, organized by Eusko Ikaskuntza (Basque Studies Society) and the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Catalan Studies Institute), Bases for the elaboration of a code of good practice aiming to strenghten the European project and the links between the…
The AI system developed by MIT researchers is capable of automatically deciphering dead languages without the need for advanced knowledge of their relationship to other languages….
We live in a time where we quickly put people in boxes. Maybe we have more in common than what we think?
For indigenous peoples, languages not only identify their origin or membership in a community, they also carry the ethical values of their ancestors – the indigenous knowledge systems that make them one with the land and are crucial to their survival and to the hopes and aspirations of their youth.
A car bombing that killed two national policemen in the village of Sanguesa in northern Spain in 2003 was attributed to the Basque separatist group ETA.CreditRafa Rivas/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images BILBAO, Spain — Last week, in the small town of Cambo-les-Bains in the Basque region of France — just…