Spain’s Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has opened sanctioning proceedings against the Catalan news outlets VilaWeb and La Directa over their reporting on police officers who infiltrated social and pro-...

This article examines the 2026 controversy surrounding the Basque language component of the university entrance examination (USaP) as a revealing case of contemporary tensions over linguistic equality...

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Canada has spent more than half a century building one of the world's most extensive systems of institutional bilingualism. Yet despite legal protections, standardized language testing, and significan...

In a landmark ruling against Hungary, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has, for the first time, found a standalone breach of the European Union's fundamental values under Article 2 of...

Following the recent scandal over forged language certificates in South Tyrol, this is the second entry in a MIDAS blog series exploring how language skills of public employees are assessed in multili...

This article was produced within the MIDAS Training Programme. In June 2026, Linda Koleszárová, a journalist at the Slovak Hungarian-language daily Új Szó, spent a week at the editorial office of the....

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Bernd Fabritius (CSU) has been reappointed as the Federal Government Commissioner for Matters Related to Ethnic German Resettlers and National Minorities, succeeding Nathalie Pawlik (SPD) in Berlin. I...

At the end of June, the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) held its annual congress in Novi Sad. Among the participants was Eugenia Natsolidou, representative of the organisation Krste Mis...

Once a Cold War fault line, Nova Gorica and Gorizia are reuniting as GO! 2025 – a European Capital of Culture that celebrates life beyond borders. But while culture builds bridges, old scars and new p...

Ålandstidningen is a Swedish-language newspaper published on the Åland Islands in Finland. It uses new technologies and artificial intelligence to produce sports broadcasts – without camera operators....

‘We did not have to make any concessions to achieve this result, which would have meant any reduction for the minority protection,’ said South Tyrol’s President Arno Kompatscher in an interview with R...

Martxelo Otamendi was elected as the new President of MIDAS at the 2025 General Assembly. In this interview, Martxelo Otamendi discusses the current situation and future of minority language journalis...

Heinrich Neisser, who died on 22 August 2025 at the age of 89, was not only a prominent Austrian politician and professor but also a big supporter of the country’s minority communities. His engagement...

This year, three long-standing and distinguished figures stepped down from the MIDAS Governing Board: Bojan Brezigar, Toni Ebner and Edit Slezák. All three played a key role in shaping MIDAS since its...

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This year, three long-standing and distinguished figures stepped down from the MIDAS Governing Board: Bojan Brezigar, Toni Ebner and Edit Slezák. All three played a key role in shaping MIDAS since its...

The article explores a landmark European Court of Human Rights ruling against Greece for violating the freedom of association of a Turkish women’s cultural group in Western Thrace. By refusing registr...

A week after the controversial police operation at the Peršmanhof memorial in Carinthia, Austria, tensions remain high. New testimonies and developments have further intensified public debate on the t...

The UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues Nicolas Levrat has launched a new academic network to identify and elevate student-directed research. The network is currently running the first edition of...

A large-scale police operation at the Peršmanhof memorial in southern Austria, one of the country’s most significant memorial sites dedicated to resistance and civilian victims of the Nazi regime, has...

In this article, Ignacio Escala Estanga, reflects on his personal experience of not having learned Basque in Nafarroa/Navarre within an educational and familiar context where the natural presence of B...

Democratic responsibility: What does a letter from the German minority have to do with Europe's peace? More than the Danish government seems to understand, journalist Marle Liebelt argues in her comme...

Cross-border cooperation among minorities plays a vital role in easing tensions – sometimes deeply rooted in history – fostering peace and coexistence, and supporting the economic development of perip...

Ukraine’s aspirations for European integration have been a crucial driving force behind its legislative developments in recent years. Ever since the signing of the association agreement with the Europ...

Capturing mixed social identities through categorical data presents significant challenges. Nonbinarity provides a conceptual, computational, and visual framework for reimagining social identities bey...

Croatian writer and journalist Milan Rakovac received the 2025 Otto von Habsburg Prize for Journalism, awarded annually by MIDAS. Rakovac (born in Rakovci, Croatia, in 1939) has had a long career in j...

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Urtzi Urkizu, winner of the MIDAS Prize for Journalism 2025, has over two decades of experience in Basque-language media, having worked for Euskaldunon Egunkaria and Berria. He focuses on minority lan...

This year’s MIDAS General Assembly took place in the twin towns of Nova Gorica and Gorica/Gorizia, located on the Slovenian-Italian border. The venue was chosen not only for its symbolic location but....

Despite being the EU’s largest minority, Roma voices are absent in the new European Parliament. At a recent intergroup meeting, adviser Costel Bercuş warned of growing exclusion and called for real po...

Civil society organisations from Spain complain about attempts to reduce support for their language. At the second meeting of the Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and Languag...

In South Tyrol, the newly elected mayor of Meran/Merano, Katharina Zeller, caused a national uproar when she removed the Italian tricolore sash during her inauguration. The incident was viewed as an e...

"Austria is free": these legendary words were spoken by Foreign Minister Leopold Figl after he signed the State Treaty with the victorious powers of the Second World War in Vienna on 15 May 1955, whic...