Sign the petition and help provide a better future for the national minorities and language communities of Europe
If you’re a EU national of voting age, please take a moment out of your day to visit this site and sign this Citizens’ Initiative to protect the linguistic rights of European minorities.
The initiative needs one million votes to be submitted to the European Commission and we’re still short of nearly 400,000 votes that need to be collected in the next 43 days or the initiative will fail.
Here’s what the initiative proposes:
drafting a EU Recommendation for the protection and promotion of cultural and linguistic diversity in the Union
adjusting funding programmes so that they become accessible for small regional and minority language communities
the establishment of a language diversity centre
allocating regional funds in ways that promote pluralism and benefit national minorities
research into the added value of minorities to social and economic development in Europe
improving minority representation in the elections to the European Parliament
an improved anti-discrimination framework
approximating equality for stateless minorities
creating a single market for copyright (i.e. no more geoblocking)
amending the Audio-visual Media Services Directive to facilitate access to content in minority languages across national borders
regional (state) support for minority communities
A note on any privacy concerns: when signing the initiative, you’ll be ask to provide your full name, date and place of birth, nationality and ID number. This information is encrypted and will never be published, either in part or in full. If the initiative reaches one million signatures, the data will be passed to your national government to verify that you are indeed a citizen.
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