What type of gesture does Minority languages of Austria and Austrian State Treaty have in common?
Minority languages of Austria Minority or regional languages spoken in autochthonous settlement in Austria are Croatian in Burgenland, Slovene in Carinthia and Styria, Hungarian in Burgenland and Vienna, Czech in Vienna, Slovak in Vienna, Romany in Burgenland. Country signed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages on 5 November 1992 and it became effective under international law on 1 October 2001. The Austrian Federal Constitution calls for the respect and promotion of ethnic groups resident in Austria and special set of rights are established in the Ethnic Group Act German: "Volksgruppengesetz" of 1976 for Croats, Slovenes, Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks and for Romani people. The rights of the Croats and Slovenes are also set forth in the Austrian State Treaty. In the view of the representatives of the speakers of minority languages, the federal laws concerning regional or
Federal Council (Austria) The Federal Council (German: "Bundesrat" (] ) is the second chamber of the Austrian Parliament, representing the nine States of Austria ("Bundesländer") on federal level. As part of a bicameral legislature alongside of the National Council ("Nationalrat"), it can be compared with an upper house or a senate. In fact, however, it is far less powerful than the National Council: although it has to approve every new law decided for by this "lower" chamber, the latter can—in most cases—overrule the Federal Council's refusal to approve.