Policy Brief: Unofficial, But Not Unimportant: The Issue of Regional and Minority Languages, Angelos Chalkiadakis

Key points

  • Regional and Minority Languages can be found all across Europe, and their safeguarding is crucial for the EU’s prosperity.
  • The EU’s competences are limited and RMLs are mostly supported through the Union’s educational programs.
  • The EU can support RMLs more actively, by:
  • demonstrating to its member-states the significance of RMLs
  • making reforms to the budget allocation
  • enabling smaller communities to benefit from the available funding
  • including RMLs to its language learning platforms

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