In the next months we will provide in our website the complete texts
of the papers given by the speakers at the II Mercator International
Symposium "Europe 2004: A new framework for all languages?".
Here, there are the abstracts of the conferences.
Dra. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
The
right to mother tongue medium education - the hot potato
in human
rights instruments (in English) |
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Dr. Bojan Brezigar
EBLUL’s
policy in relation to the constitutional draft (in English) |
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Dra. Niamh Nic Shuibhne
Does
the Draft EU Constitution contain a language policy? (in
English) |
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Dra. Miriam Aziz
Language
rights in the EU and the modesty of the constitutional moment: mainstreaming
the duty of clarity and transparency (in English) |
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Dr. Alessandro Pizzorusso
Linguistic groups as cultural subjects, as political
subjects and as legal subjects (in Italian) |
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Regina Jensdottir
The
Council of Europe Language Charter - perspectives, impact and effectiveness?
(in English) |
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Dra. Snezana Trifunovska
Efficiency of the European supervisory systems
for protection of linguistic rights of minorities: A critical assessment
(in English) |
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Kristin Henrard
An investigation into the desirable,
appropriate and possible role of the Language Charter in expanding
on Article 22 of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights
(in English) |
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Robert Dunbar, Màster
en dret
The European Charter for Regional
or Minority Languages from the perspective of other norms in European
Law: A fully appropriate basis for EU language policy? (in
English) |
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Teresa Condeço
Linguistic
Diversity: A framework for all languages (in English) |
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Dr. Eduardo J. Ruíz
Vieytez
Official
languages and minority languages: issues regarding their legal status
through Comparative Law (in Spanish) |
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Dr. Robert Phillipson
If
language policy issues are explosive, how should they best be handled?
(in English) |
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Prof. Íñigo
Urrutia Libarona
Perspectives of materialising European linguistic
diversity (in Spanish) (Updated version published as Working
Paper 17) |
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Gabriel Von Toggenburg
'United
in Diversity' - How much unity in what sort of diversity does the
new constitutional ‘motto’ of the EU have in mind?
(in English) |
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Prof. Alok Kumar Das
Minority Language Laws in the EU: Process and
Problem of Policy Implementation (in English) |
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Begoña Antxustegi & Amaia
Agirre
What are we talking about when we
talk about linguistic diversity in Europe. The role of official
authorities in the safeguard of the European cultural patrimony
(in Spanish) |
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Tsjerk Bottema
Minority languages and education in the new
EU-member states (in English) |
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Dra. Ina Druviete
The
impact of EU accession for language and minority legislation in
Latvia (in English) |
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Jean-Bernard Adrey
The Copenhagen Criteria: Can they be applied
to current members in retrospect? (in English) |
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Dr. Tomasz Wicherkiewicz
The new minority languages in the new EU member
states (in English) |
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Dr. Alex Riemersma
How can NGOs contribute to the use of minority
languages within local and regional authorities? (in English) |
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Drs. Jaume Vernet i Santi Castellà
The implementation of the European Charter for
Regional or Minority Languages by the Spanish State in regard with
the Catalan language (in Catalan) |
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Dr. Juan Inazio Hartsuaga
Behatokia: an experience on social control of
linguistic rights (in English) |
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Prof. Jarmo Lainio
Finally,
one step forward, without two steps backward? The case of Sweden
Finnish after receiving a minority status (in English) |
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