| Series Title | EurActiv |
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| Series Details | 04.09.13 |
| Publication Date | 04/09/2013 |
| Content Type | News |
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Dozens of protesters in the Croatian town of Vukovar, many of them veterans of the Yugoslav war in the 1990s, tore down in September 2013 recently installed signs written in the Serbian Cyrillic script. The signs had been put up because of a Croatian law that made bilingual signs mandatory in any area where more than one-third of the population belonged to an ethnic minority. The European Commission said that 'respect of cultural and linguistic diversity is a cornerstone of the EU and recognised in EU law'. However, it was also stressed that 'national language policies, such as this one, are not regulated by EU law, and are within the jurisdiction of the member states'. |
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| Source Link | http://www.euractiv.com/culture/croats-tear-signs-cyrillic-vukov-news-530203 |
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| Countries / Regions | Croatia, Serbia |
