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GERMANY: Traditional Sorbian schools face extinction

A traditional Sorbian school that supports the Sorbian language and culture has closed under a German law requiring a minimum enrollment of 20 students to keep a school open. The Council of Europe has asked the government of the Province of Saxony, where the school was located, to adjust the minimum in consideration of the special circumstances of the Sorbian minority. Parents of children from the closed school have started a procedure to take the government to court.