1: the best answer is Macedonia: it was "carved out" of Bulgaria, but it's largely not divided along ethnic lines (although it has a sizeable Albanian minority). Swizerland has French, German, Italian and Rhetoromance communities, Bosnia has Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats and Ireland has English and Celtic speaking populations.
2: those councils are protecting the French, ,Flemisch and German communities: the correct answer is a. the major ethnic and language groups in the country