MINELRES: Eurolang articles 8-11 November 2004

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we include a brief summary of the latest articles published on Eurolang.


MAINSTREAMING FOR 'UNOFFICIAL' LESSER-USED LANGUAGES WILL NOT TAKE FULL
EFFECT UNTIL 2007
Brussel/Bruxelles 11/11/2004 by Davyth Hicks

Following last week's news that 'unofficial' lesser-used languages can
still not access the EU Lingua programme while, following the Andorran
agreement, non-EU languages, such as Norwegian and Icelandic, will be
able to: Eurolang today examines the issue more closely.


AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR TO HOST CONFERENCE ON BILINGUAL SIGNS IN CARINTHIA
Wien 11/10/2004 by Peter Josika

Austrian chancellor Wolfgang Schussel has announced his intention to
call a second 'consensus conference' on the issue of bilingual signage
in the Austrian Bundesland (province) of Carinthia/Karnten/Koroska later
this year. The move was welcomed by Slovene minority representatives and
Carinthia's deputy governor, Social Democrat, Peter Ambrozy.


"NOBODY IS GOING TO ABOLISH RUSSIAN-MEDIUM EDUCATION IN ESTONIA," SAYS
TOIVO MAIMETS, ESTONIAN MINISTER OF EDUCATION
Tallinn 11/8/2004 by Alexander Shegedin

"Nobody is going to abolish Russian-medium education in Estonia", says
Toivo Maimets, Estonian Minister of Education, in interview to the
Latvian Russian-language newspaper 'Telegraf' last week. According to
the Minister, the government plans to switch 60% of Russian-medium
schooling (in the 10th and 12th grades) into the Estonian language. But,
unlike Latvia, Estonian local authorities have the right to apply to
central government to exclude those schools not ready for reform from
the process.


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