Saoradh speculate 'mine attack' timed to coincide with Soloheadbeg centenary

Saoradh, a republican organisation opposed to the Good Friday settlement, has speculated that a bomb attack in Derry on Saturday may have been timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Soloheadbeg ambush on Monday. "Early reports from the city of Derry are indicating that a British institution in the form of Derry City Courthouse...

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The Academy of the Basque Language forms an Alliance of Academies of minority languages in Europe

The Academy of the Basque Language (1919) is the official body responsible for Basque, that is the Basque language. It carries out research on the language and its object is to safeguard it; the Academy has formulated the rules for the normalisation of the language. The Basque name of this language academy is Euskaltzaindia. On January...

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A new Irish party founded for Reunification and Independence: Aontú

Former Sinn Féin politician Peadar Tóibín has named his new political party Aontú, meaning ‘agreement’ or ‘unity’ in Irish Gaelic language. Mr Tóibín unveiled the name in a post on Twitter ahead of a public meeting in Belfast on Monday night. More than 150 were at Belfast launch of new all-Ireland party. The Meath West TD said...

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VB calls for a middle class revolt against the political elite and attacks N-VA for ruling with Socialists

The New Year reception of the pro independence party Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) attracted some 450 executives of the movement. The meeting was opened by Stefaan Sintobin in Bruges on January 20th called for a middle class revolt against the political elite. Vlaams Belang President Tom Van Grieken, made a parallel with the Battle...

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SVP to form a Nations Without State Alliance for the European Elections

The SVP (South Tyrolean People's Party) closed an agreement with the Christian-democratic and centrist PATT (Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party) in Bozen on January 23rd. The SVP will meet also with the Friulian Patto per l'Autonomia, the Union Valdotaine and the Slovenian Slovenska Skupnost, to join an alliance for the European elections,...

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A new Catalan party founded for Independence: Crida Nacional per la República

Yesterday in Barcelona 2,500 people launched the party promoted by the Catalan President in Exile, Carles Puigdemont, the political prisoner Jordi Sànchez, who was elected Chairman, as well as the Catalonia's President Quim Torra. The transversal movement was joined by right and left factions with the main aim of a Catalan...

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Alsatian party UL launches a campaign against the Grand Est artificial region

Unser Land had launched a campaign against the artificial region where Alsace was integrated. Unser Land has launched the campaign against the French artificial region of the "East North". It includes, apart from Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne. The Alsatian national party has published stickers with the motto "grotesque" to place...

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Peter Luykx (N-VA) visits Catalan political prisoners

“There is no room for political repression in the European Union. The N-VA wishes to inform the Catalan political prisoners that as a party it will continue to stand up for the immediate release of all Catalan political prisoners and for the resolution of the conflict between Barcelona and Madrid through non-judicial channels. We will...

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Armando Melodia, new President of the party Free Sicilians

Armando Melodia is the new president of the Free Sicilians (Siciliani Liberi) party. Siciliani Liberi that at the last elections was proposed to voters with their own candidate for the Presidency of the Sicilian Region, Roberto La Rosa. Since then La Rosa is not part of more Siciliani Liberi and the new president is Melodia. La Rosa...

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Éirígí Ard Fheis in Dublin changes the name of the party to Éirígí For A New Republic

John Douglas - General Secretary of Mandate addressed the Éirígí Ard Fheis in Dublin on January 19th calling to "Organize! Organize! Organize!". Éirigí distributed visitors packs ready, including copies of the 1919 Democratic Programme and the new housing leaflet. It was a great afternoon of political discussion. Language movement Misneach...

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Arno Kompatscher elected new President of South Tyrol

Arno Kompatscher on January 17th succeeded himself with a majority-elect SVP (South Tyrolean People's Party)-Lega, which voted in full with 19 votes in favor over 35 after being formally nominated as a unitary candidate of the Südtiroler Volkspartei and the Lega Salvini Alto Adige-Südtirol. In his inaugural address, the president made...

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70 years of Domowina's work in Brandenburg

The Minister of Culture Martina Münch recalled the official admission of the Domowina in the state of Brandenburg after the Second World War 70 years ago on 20 January 1949 and commended her commitment to the Sorbian / Wendish concerns. "I thank Domowina and its members for their great and long-standing commitment to representing the interests...

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Aosta's Valley autonomous government preparing a bill for the protection of the francoprovençal (arpitan)

Laurent Viérin, councilor for culture in the autonomous government of the Aosta's Valley responded to a question from the Lega Vallée d'Aosta on January 10 about the intentions of the executive regarding to the Arpitan language. Vierin announced that the autonomous government is to prepare a regional law for the protection and valorisation...

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New platform for Brittany's to save the culture and the territory

The platform Pour une Bretagne enfin majeure (For a Britain finally of legal age) began its journey on January 12th in Karaez promoted by the Ar Falz movement. Ar Falz / Skol Vreizh is today mainly a bilingual publishing house run by retired or retired scholars. Founded almost a century ago by Yann Sohier, public master of Plourivo,...

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Galician National Bloc (BNG) tribute to Castelao

The Galician National Bloc (BNG) remembered A.D. R. Castelao in Rianxo last January 12th. Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao (30 January 1886 – 7 January 1950), commonly known as Castelao, was a Galician politician, writer, painter and doctor. He is one of the fathers of Galician national movement, promoting Galician identity and culture,...

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Language campaigners in train station protests over lack of Welsh services

"It's a huge disappointment that the Welsh Government, Transport Wales and the contracted company have failed to ensure that these services are provided in Welsh language despite all the time they had prepared ... we have asked for the Welsh Language Commissioner to use the broad powers he has to conduct a general investigation....

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South Tyrol coalition pact with Lega approved by SVP committees

The coalition pact between the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP, Südtiroler VolksPartei) and the Lega was approved on January 7th Nals by members of the SVP Committees, SVP local people and SVP mayors. The decision was taken with 503 of the 519 present voters. There was no dissenting vote, the SVP said in a release. After the announcement...

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Undob, new socialist pro-independence movement will hold its launch on 26th January

The new socialist pro-independence group Undod will hold its launch event in Aberystwyth at the end of the month. According to those who have set up ‘Undod’, meaning ‘solidarity’ or ‘unity’ in Welsh, the group is socialist and campaigns for ‘radical’ independence for Wales. Speakers at the launch, held at the Hen Goleg building in Aberystwyth on Saturday 26th January, will include Nia Edwards-Behi, who comes from Aberystwyth,...

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Belfast City Hall turns red marking 2 year's campaigning for an Irish Language Act

Belfast City Hall has been illuminated in red in a show of support for those campaigning for greater protections for Irish language speakers in Northern Ireland. Around 200 activists gathered for a colourful and noisy demonstration as the landmark building turned the colour of their movement late on Saturday January 12th afternoon....

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85,000 people rally for the Basque political prisoners under the slogan 'Orain presoak' (Now the prisoners)

  The cities of Bilbo (Basque Country under Spanish administration) and Baiona (Basque Country under French administration) have hosted today two demonstrations to demand the end of the Spanish penitentiary policy of exception applied to prisoners. 76,000 people have been in Bilbo and 9,000 in Baiona, according to the...

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Corsican Nation Party to engage in a much more offensive strategy after the blocking of discussions with the French State

On January 6th the executive council of the party met in Vivariu with a clear consensus: the Partitu di a Nazione Corsa (PNC, Corsican Nation Party) reaffirms its identity : without leaving the nationalist union (Pè a Corsica, For Corsica) with Femu a Corsica and Corsica Libera. The approach of the local elections of 2020 with an electorate...

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More for Mallorca approves a coalition with the Valencian coalition Compromís by a narrow margin

The biggest national party in Majorca, Més per Mallorca (More for Majorca) yesterday decided in an assembly held in Palma on January 8th to concur with the Valencian coalition Compromís (Commitment) to the European elections. It refused to ally with ERC. The European elections will be held on May 25, with the Valencian Commitment, A...

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Bilingual information meeting : «What is the Breton Society ?»

«How will be Brittany saved ? Brittany will be saved the day when we will have created, in spite of, and against evreryone, a national life in Brittany. Brittany will be saved the day when we have taught our fellow countrymen and women how to read and write our language ; the day when we have improved our language, set up our schools...

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Alex Salmond wins sexual harassment inquiry case against Scottish government

The Scottish government has admitted acting unlawfully while investigating sexual harassment claims against Alex Salmond. Allegations against the former first minister, which he denies, were made to the Scottish government a year ago. The government has now admitted it breached its own guidelines by appointing an investigating officer...

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Bart De Wever, N-VA: “The solution is to be found in confederalism”

N-VA chairman Bart De Wever provided an overview of the political situation in Belgium. While doing so, he came back to the collapse of the federal government as a result of the Marrakesh Compact and looked forward to the coming days and weeks. What’s more, one week after the N-VA Ministers decided to leave the federal government, N-VA...

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Pays d'Aoste Souverain calls for a single autonomous candidate for the European elections

The political movement Pays d'Aoste Souverain published its appeal to the autonomous Valdostan parties in view of the European elections. The text recalls what happened during the regional elections of May 2018: "In the month of May we asked Autonomists to present themselves under a single banner, we presented a document that was not shared,...

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Frisian National Party presents new logo

In a meeting in Bolsward on January 5th, FNP party leader Johannes Kramer takes the national energy course under fire.The billions of euros in the national energy pot must become available to citizens and farmers, according to the FNP, Frisian National Party (Fryske Nasjonale Partij). The account of the Climate Agreement is...

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South Tyrol: SVP blocks negotitations after the cancellation of a Senate seat in South Tyrol

South Tyrolean People's Party and Lega have agreed on a state government. But only when the autonomy conflict with Rome is resolved, it will come to forming a government. Arno Kompatscher has already made it clear: The government negotiations with the Lega are one thing: a party-internal matter of the South Tyrol People's Party (SVP). The...

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Vlaams Belang ousted from the municipal coalition in Ninove despite getting most votes in last October's local elections

Last October 14th the Flemish MP Guy D'haeseleer (Vlaams Belang) and his local slate "Forza Ninove" collected 40 percent of the votes in Ninove. However, he was two seats short of an absolute majority and needed to seek collaboration from other parties to install a local coalition. The rest of the Flemish parties have a long-time deal...

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