10 pro-autonomy or pro-independence MPs will seat in the French National Assembly during the 2022-2027 term, twice as many as before. The increase in the figure is due to several wins of these candidates in territories outside Europe. On the European continent, Corsican nationalists have managed to keep all 3 seats they already had. Keep reading

Thousands of protesters —17,000, according to organisers— demanded on Saturday 21 May in Belfast the passing of legislative measures in favour of the rights of Irish speakers in Northern Ireland. It is one of the largest demonstrations in history for Irish, which, unlike Welsh or Scottish Gaelic, does not have an act of its own seeking to promote it. Keep reading

The victors’ peace continues to reign in Sri Lanka. 13 years after the end of a bloody and largely ignored civil war, no one knows for sure how many lives the conflict claimed. According to the United Nations, some 40,000 civilians and 15,000 combatants were killed, far fewer than the figure of 65,000 enquiries on missing persons received so far by the island’s foreign ministry, or the 147,000 victims reported by a prominent Tamil Catholic bishop. Far from the process of national reconciliation that successive governments successfully sold to the country’s Sinhala majority, the Tamil minority still awaits a resolution to a political conflict that originated in 1948, but whose aftermath is still being experienced. Keep reading