Editing Sorbs (section)

===After reunification===
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After the reunification of Germany on 3 October 1990, Lusatians made efforts to create an autonomous administrative unit; however, [[Helmut Kohl]]’s government did not agree to it.{{Citation needed|date=October 2021}}  After 1989, the Sorbian movement revived, however, it still encounters many obstacles. Although Germany supports national minorities, Sorbs claim that their aspirations are not sufficiently fulfilled.{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} The desire to unite Lusatia in one of the federal states has not been taken into consideration. [[Upper Lusatia]] still belongs to Saxony and [[Lower Lusatia]] to Brandenburg. Liquidations of Sorbian schools, even in areas mostly populated by Sorbs, still happen, under the pretext of financial difficulties or demolition of whole villages to create [[lignite]] quarries.{{Citation needed|date=November 2013}}

Faced with growing threat of cultural extinction, the Domowina issued a memorandum in March 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.domowina.sorben.com/pm/memorandum08.htm|title=DOMOWINA - Medijowe wozjewjenje - Pressemitteilung- Press release|work=sorben.com|access-date=18 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204939/http://www.domowina.sorben.com/pm/memorandum08.htm|archive-date=2016-03-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> and called for "help and protection against the growing threat of their cultural extinction, since an ongoing conflict between the German government, Saxony and Brandenburg about the financial distribution of help blocks the financing of almost all Sorbian institutions". The memorandum also demands a reorganisation of competence by ceding responsibility from the [[States of Germany|Länder]] to the federal government and an expanded legal status. The call has been issued to all governments and heads of state of the [[European Union]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/international/Kulturhoheit;art123,2489719|title=Kulturhoheit: Sorben bitten Europa um Hilfe - International - Politik - Tagesspiegel|work=tagesspiegel.de|date=7 March 2008|access-date=18 March 2015}}</ref>

Dawid Statnik, president of Domowina, the umbrella association of Sorbs in Germany, said in an interview with [[Der Tagesspiegel|Tagesspiegel]] that he considers it dangerous that the AFD defines the issue of German citizens through an ethnic aspect. He believes that there is a concrete danger for the Sorbs if the [[Alternative for Germany|AfD]] enters the governments of the federal states of Brandenburg and Saxony in the autumn elections.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lužički Srbi strahuju od uspjeha AfD-a |url=https://www.index.hr/clanak.aspx?id=2579540 |access-date=2024-07-27 |website=www.index.hr |language=hr}}</ref>