Linguistic rights

Ljubljana – The National Council vetoed on Wednesday amendments to the act on special rights for minorities in education which would set a higher Italian language standard for staff working in Slovenian-Italian bilingual kindergartens and schools.

This was said in SANU at the panel of the library where the book "Secession from the standpoint of domestic and international law and its political consequences: Proceedings of the scientific meeting held on July 3, 2020", edited by academician Kosta Cavoski, was presented.

“There is a minority of one country, Turkey, which for its own reasons does not share these principles”

According to the government website she pointed out that the work of the Council for National Minorities is a confirmation of the commitment to this topic.

The Albanian parliament passed a law for the protection of minorities in the country during a session late Friday night. With 102 in favour and 10 against out of a total of 140, the neighbouring county’s MPs passed the relevant law for the first time in its history after it became a democracy following the fall of the communist regime.

The American English Academy in Sofia will admit visiting students in the current 2015/2016 academic year.

Bilingual signs and minority languages are in the jurisdiction of European Union member states, a European Commission statement said on Thursday.

It added that the EC is confident that Croatia will honor national and international commitments on the protection of national minorities.

Minority rights in Serbia key to EU integration

The advancement of the position of national minorities is one of the key points in Serbia's European integration process.

A Roma family celebrates the patron saint Archangel in one of Belgrade's unauthorised settlements for the minority group. [Nikola Barbutov/SETimes]

Experts don't expect "monolingual civilization"

BELGRADE -- Domestic linguists warned on International Mother Language Day that the Serbian language was "under the growing influence of English."

However, they also said Serbian was "endangered to the same extent as other languages with great traditions."

BELGRADE - Domestic linguists warned on Friday, on the International Mother Language Day, that the Serbian language is under the growing influence of English, but that it is jeopardized to the same extent as other languages with great traditions.