Editing Latin Union (section)

==Membership==
According to the Latin Union's website, membership was open to any nation that met the following criteria:

*[[Linguistics|Linguistic]] criteria:
**Latin-derived language as official language, used in [[education]], and commonly used in the [[mass media]] or in daily life
*Linguistic/cultural criteria:
**Existence of significant [[literature]] in a Latin-derived language
**[[Mass media|Press]] and [[publishing|publication]] in Latin-derived language
**[[Television]] with a strong proportion of the programming in a Latin-derived language
**[[Radio]] widely broadcast in a Latin-derived 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]]
**[[culture|Cultural]] education of Latin-derived foreign languages
**Exchange programmes with other Latin countries
**Societal organization, particularly in the [[law|legal]] plane, based on respect for fundamental [[liberty|liberties]], the general principles of [[human rights]] and [[democracy]], tolerance, and freedom of [[religion]]