It’s mainly more of the same…. I guess ECB may have something for tomorrow’s meeting.

What I told about I’d like you to check is this:

1999 the french signed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

1990 Copenhagen 3rd Human Dimension Conference they (the french)approved the conference documents

Well, it didn’t come as a surprise they never implemented anything nor done anything, not even close. But I wondered about the legal consequences, do you mind checking?

The Charter 1992 Article 9 Judicial authorities specifies "to provide that the courts at the request of one of the parties shall conduct the proceedings in the regional or minority languages and or to guarantee the accused the rights to use his/her language,…./…… to produce, on request, documents connected with legal proceedings in the relevant minority language.”

I bet you guessed the french have always denied these rights to all minorities. So, what is it possible to expect from the appropriate lawsuits regarding these cases? Overturned and or compensation? When you can.

The following will come to you as a schock I guess, it really warmed my heart and make me feel so much better when I have to explain the french policies are criminal, wrong and ill inspired, not just my opinion but widely shared, even though it doesn’t change anything right away, knowing plenty think the same and it isn’t crazy to think that is I admit somekind of a relief.

1. Many European countries have on their territory regionally based autochthonous groups speaking a language other than that of the majority of the population. This is a consequence of
historical processes whereby the formation of states has not taken place on purely language-related lines and small communities have been engulfed by larger ones.

2. The demographic situation of such regional or minority languages varies greatly, from a few
thousand speakers to several million, and so does the law and practice of the individual states with respect to them. However, what many have in common is a greater or lesser degree of precariousness. Moreover, whatever may have been the case in the past, nowadays the threats facing these regional or minority languages are often due at least as much to the inevitably standardising influence of modem civilization and especially of the mass media as to an unfriendly environment or a government policy of assimilation.

(From Explanatory Report1 to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages) Useful documents are here Doc. 6294 Doc. 6302 http://assembly.coe.int/documents/adoptedtext/ta90/frec1134.htm#1

Celebrate! These words are just so good!