The initiator committee of the Minority SafePack (MSPI) appealed on Monday within the framework of its proceedings against the European Commission (EC), Romanian MEP Vincze Loránt, president of the Federative Union of European Nationalities (FUEN), announced in a statement sent to MTI.
The initiators of MSPI turned to the EU court in 2021 after the European Commission refused to initiate legislation to protect European indigenous national minorities. In November last year, the first instance court of the EU rejected MSPI's claim. The initiators are now hoping for a remedy from the EU Court of Justice, as they assess that the court's decision is not in line with its own judgments concerning European citizens' initiatives.
The appeal petition cites as an example of institutional partiality the fact that EC representatives met seven times
with representatives of the End the Cage Age initiative demanding the banning of breeding animals in cages, and only once, as required by the regulations, with representatives of MSPI. At the same time, the decision refers to Council of Europe institutions and legal instruments of which the EU is not part and which have not been ratified by several EU member states.
"We regret that the court repeated the position of the European Court of Justice without consideration, even though it is factually incorrect in several points. The claim that the union has already done everything in the MSPI to protect minority languages and cultures cannot be legally supported," stated the president of FUEN.
Loránt Vincze pointed out: they go through the legal process, they use all means, because they owe it to the more than fifty million EU citizens who speak one of the minority languages. He assessed that the MSPI was already effective in raising awareness of the problems of indigenous minorities, but they will not give up until concrete measures are reached.
The General Court of the EU decided on the case on November 9, 2022. The Luxembourg board did not overturn the European Commission's January 2021 rejection of the Minority SafePack proposals supported by more than one million signatures. According to the tribunal, "the measures already taken by the EU to emphasize the importance of regional or minority languages and to promote cultural and linguistic diversity are sufficient to achieve the objectives of the initiative".
The Court of Justice of the European Union is expected to rule on the case within two years.
Source: MTI
(Header image: FUEN)
civilek.info:
According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, keeping breeding animals in cages is much more important than protecting indigenous minorities. We can expect that in the near future a court decision will be made that animals are also humans, but not all humans are entitled to the same rights. In fact, they could declare in a court ruling that there are equals and there are more equals within the EU. We are afraid that even this revelation would not surprise anyone. Many court decisions prove that the Court of Justice of the European Union is nothing more than the executive body of left-liberal Brussels bureaucrats, their decisions do not differ from those of their clients, not even in their reasons. What can we expect from those who, brazenly violating the principles of law, decided that the vote of those who abstained from a vote should not be included in the total of those "present"?
Yes, the appeal. Isn't it going to be heard by the same court that made the first-instance verdict? Because that wouldn't surprise anyone either.
