Brussels, 12/09/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 11 September, the European Parliament adopted the own initiative report by François Alfonsi (Greens/EFA, France) on regional languages threatened with extinction (645 votes to 26, with 29 abstentions). It calls on the member states to encourage the safeguard of endangered languages and to promote their use - with a first step towards recognition being the ratification of the Council of Europe's European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages....