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THE YEAR OF THE FAROE ISLANDS

2018 will be a decisive year for the Faroe Islands under Danish sovereignty. Next 25 April, the Faroese will vote a new Constitution. If it is approved, the archipelago will…

CORSICA, THE START OF A NEW POLITICAL CYCLE

We are inclined to think that the December 2017 Corsica election is not only a triumph of nationalism, but it will also unleash political shockwaves. The historic results gained by…

AUSTRIAN NATIONALITY FOR SOUTH TYROL INHABITANTS

  Ties between Austria and Italy strain every so often when the South Tyrol issue heats up again. It has been an on-off dispute, remaining quiet in late times, until now,…

NEW INITIATIVE TO PROMOTE THE USE OF BASQUE

28% of the population in the Basque Country can speak Basque. However, that percentage is not homogeneous. While in some areas of the Basque Country that rate rises to upwards…

CURRENT STATUS OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE DISPUTES IN NORTH EAST OF IRELAND

JAKE MAC SIACAIS Director of Forbairt Feirste. ‘Cultural Supremacy’is a term that has been bandied about with increasing frequency by the major Pro-Union party in the British Controlled North Eastern…

MARCOS MACEIRA, PRESIDENT OF THE A MESA POLA NORMALIZACION LINGUISTICA: “The development of our sense of national identity will also spur the use of our language”

The historian Marcos Maceira (Santiago de Compostela, 1978) is the president of the A Mesa Pola Normalizacion Linguistica. He combines his president post there with his job as a schoolteacher….

CATALONIA: CHRONICLE OF A REFERENDUM

On 1 October 2017, the independence referendum was held in Catalonia. The referendum is a paramount democratic practice and unequivocal proof of political intelligence rarely seen in the world to…

CATALONIA AT THE CROSSROADS

1 October 2017 marked an important commitment of the Catalans with the ballot box. A self-determination referendum on that date questioned the Catalans on their decision about the future of…

KURDISTAN OF IRAQ, INDEPENDENCE IS COMING UP

Despite Iraq’s governmental opposition, the stance held by Western powers to the contrary, and the Kurdish heavy, ongoing involvement in the fight against Islamic State ISIS, the Government of Kurdistan…

NORTH OF IRELAND: GOVERNMENT IN DEADLOCK

Six months have elapsed since the Northern Ireland election, resulting in a rise of the Irish nationalists (Sinn Fein). During that period, the parties gathering most votes (unionist DUP and…