Our Hungarian Mercator partner, the Research Centre for Multilingualism (RCM) from the Research Institute for Linguistics/ Eötvös Loránd Research Network, wrote us that on 3 July 2020, the Hungarian Parliament adopted the amendment T/10734 to the Act on Hungarian Sign Language and the Use of Hungarian Sign Language with full consent. Thanks to the current amendment, a number of issues have been added to an earlier law (2009) and for which there has been a growing demand in the Hungarian deaf community over the last 11 years. The two most important complements of the amendment are the following:
1) it defines the roles and tasks of sign language interpreters, deaf sign language interpreters, defines the notion of native sign language user, and sign language interpreter service;
2) it provides the possibility of taking a state language exam in Hungarian Sign Language from 2021, which will be accepted by higher education institutions as a certificate of foreign language proficiency.

The popular message application Telegram, with over 400 million active users, is now also available in the Friulian language. The platform interface has been fully translated, for all operating systems such as Android, iOS, TDesktop, MacOs and Android X, with guaranteed maintenance. This is the result of the work of an enthousiastic group of volunteers, supported by ARLeF (Agjenzie Regjonâl pe Lenghe Furlane). "It is confirmed, once again, that the Friulian, like all the other languages ​​of the world, is not precluded from any road of communication", says Eros Cisilino, president of ARLeF. "[This modern tool] is being used daily by all groups of users and, in particular, by young people [and] they know how to appreciate and enhance these tools that are very useful for increasing the knowledge of the Friulian language".

The European Centre of Minority Issues (ECMI) started an online serie of expert interviews in the field of minority language media across Europe. Prof. Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones, affiliated with the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and founder member of the Mercator Network, was the first expert to be interviewed. "The consumption of news produced by broadcasters in Wales increased during the lockdown period [...] Audiences in Wales have turned to the public service broadcasters for many reasons, not least to access the most detailed information on the prevalence of the COVID-19 in their localities but also to be informed of the actions of Welsh Government, as well as those of the UK Government, as the two governments have not implemented the same measures during the same periods of lockdown."