The 39th Conference of the linguistic minorities was held this morning in the Trentino Hall, at the headquarters building in Piazza Dante. It was chaired by the provincial councillor for housing policies, heritage, state property and promoting knowledge of the Autonomy, Simone Marchiori, flanked by the director of the Language Minorities and External Relations Service, Elisabetta Sovilla. Present from afar were the regional councillor Luca Guglielmi and numerous representatives of the historical Ladin, Mòchena and Cimbrian language minority communities, including local administrators, members of the Boards of Cultural Institutes and the Authority for Linguistic Minorities.
Marchiori thanked the speakers for their contribution to the protection and promotion of linguistic minorities and recalled yesterday's Provincial Council meeting, at which the same councillor had reported on behalf of President Fugatti and which focused entirely on minority rights. "In fact, this conference is a continuation of it," he said, recalling the Provincial Council's actions for the areas where linguistic minorities live and which experience the problems of mountain areas to a greater extent.
He then introduced the item on the agenda, which concerned the broadcasting service of the Austrian Orf 1 and Orf Sport channels on the territories of the linguistic minorities, but also on the rest of the provincial territory, for which a qualitative and quantitative improvement in broadcasting is being planned, to be launched shortly, reaching areas not envisaged in the first hypothesis of coverage, such as the Lenzi area in the Valle dei Mòcheni.
"This is an opportunity for the entire provincial population, which will have the chance to confront and engage with a language close to us, and for the German-speaking minorities, the chance to have television broadcasts in their own language: an important initiative in which the Province believes," Marchiori continued.
Publication date: 20/11/2024
