The EU funds projects to promote regional minority languages, such as the European minority language song contest , and participation at the UN forum on minorities.

BBC: Minority language statement

Zbontar beat out mathematicians at MIT in a contest to predict the voting in the Eurovision Song Contest (a sort of European version of American Idol).

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Irish singer Dana - who won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970 with All Kinds Of Everything - has won a seat in elections to the European Parliament.

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