This number presents five country-specific resolutions adopted by the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers as part of the monitoring of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, highlighting the provisions concerning the media.

The supplement to this issue, Iris plus, deals with search engines from a legal point of view: Search engines -- seek and ye shall find? : the position of search engines in law by Nico van Eijk is available online in PDF on the Observatory's website in English, French and German.