Latin Union

The Latin Union – Spanish: Unión Latina; French: Union Latine; Italian: Unione Latina; Portuguese: União Latina; Romanian: Uniunea Latină – is an intergovernmental organization that gathers together the nations of the world that use a Romance language. Its aim is to promote and disseminate the common heritage and different identities of the Latin world.

Related Topics:
Spanish - French - Italian - Portuguese - Romanian - Intergovernmental organization - Romance language

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It was created in 1954 with the signing of a constituent agreement in Madrid, and it has existed as a functional institution since 1983.

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Since that date, its member states have risen from 12 to 35, and its membership now covers

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all parts of the world. Accession is open to any state that satisfies at least one of the following criteria:

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• Linguistic criteria
• Official language derived from Latin
• Latin-derived language used in education
• Latin-derived language commonly used in the mass media or in daily life
• Linguistic/cultural criteria
• Existence of significant literature in a Latin-derived language
• Press and publication in Latin-derived language
• Television with a strong proportion of the programming in a Latin-derived language
• Radio widely broadcast in a Latin language
• Cultural criteria
• Direct or indirect inheritance of the legacy of Ancient Rome, to which the state remains faithful and which it perpetuates mainly through the education of Latin
• Cultural education of Latin-derived foreign languages
• Interchanges with other Latin countries
• Societal organization, particularly in the legal plane, based on respect for fundamental liberties, the general principles of human rights and democracy, tolerance and freedom of religion).
 
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