Author: Gabriel N. ToggenburgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Minority Protection and the Enlarged European Union
Author: Gabriel N. ToggenburgPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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EU Law, Minorities and Enlargement
Author: Kyriaki TopidiPublisher:
ISBN: 9789400000100
Category : European Union
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The European Union, as it was perceived by its founders, was an economic organisation. The completion of the ambitious task of enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe in 2004 and 2007 surfaced, however, new legal and policy challenges for the Union. One of the most contested areas of action, connected to enlargement, has been minority rights monitoring. The new task created a lack of clarity on the standards and criteria of assessment of the performance of current and perspective Member States. The book explains and analyses questions on the dominant trends on minority rights protection at EU level, their effects on Member States and their future perspectives through the prism of the recent enlargements. It begins by considering the role of the EU in minority protection and then moves on to provide a balanced approach of different possible methods to protect ethnic minorities using legal tools and principles available in EU law. It also includes case studies that test the theoretical approaches previously described. Finally, the book concludes with an assessment of the future avenues for minority rights protection within the EU. The book's distinct perspective aims at linking the complex legal framework of accession negotiations to the more political process of conditionality. It does so by tackling a subject area that has not often been treated from a human rights perspective. Book jacket.
Minority Protection in the Enlargement of the European Union
Author: Christina B. BagliettoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Human Rights and Minority Rights in the European Union
Author: Kirsten ShorakaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113695399X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The end of the Cold War has ushered a restructuring of the institutions of the European Community, culminating into its enlargement to Eastern Europe, under the aegis of economic integration, democracy and human rights. This book examines the development and the role of human rights in the European Union, from its inception as an economic co-operation project to an organisation of European States with a political agenda that goes beyond its borders. It argues that human rights have become an important component of the foreign policy of the European Union and that this role has grown from the inception of the Union through the Cold War and thereafter onto the process of enlargement of the Union. The book goes on to analyse the EU’s policy on minorities, as a particular example of human rights. It considers the level of their protection within the EU and the framework of international law, and compares minority rights in the older Member States including France, Germany and the UK, with newer Eastern European states.
The Protection of Minorities in the Wider Europe
Author: M. WellerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 023058229X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book examines whether we are moving towards an integrated regional system of legal provision for minorities. It illustrates the tension between newer member states, many of which have an interest in seeing minority issues addressed, and established members, which remain hesitant in committing themselves fully to a minority rights regime.
Mainstreaming Human and Minority Rights in the EU Enlargement with the Western Balkans
Author: Wolfgang BenedekPublisher:
ISBN: 9789282340660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
With the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty the protection of minorities became an explicit founding value of the European Union. In its external relations the EU has with the membership perspective and increased integration in the common market strong instruments at her disposal to promote and foster the protection of human and minority rights in the Western Balkan states. The question, however, arises to which extent the EU made and makes use of this leverage in its enlargement policy. The study investigates whether the EU's own commitments with regard to the protection of minorities became an integral part of the enlargement process with the Western Balkan states. It gives an overview of the situation of minorities in the states of the Western Balkan, explores the minority rights frameworks in place and how they have been implemented so far. It reviews the EU's record of monitoring and mainstreaming rights of persons belonging to minorities in the enlargement process and examines current policy and financial instruments available in enlargement and neighbourhood policies in this regard. Since there are various actors involved in the protection of minorities at the regional level cooperation with the OSCE and the CoE will be explored and analysed how regional cooperation in the field of minority protection is already developed. In concluding, recommendations will be made on how to improve EU and European Parliament's action in the field of minority protection.
Research Handbook on Minority Politics in the European Union
Author: Tove H. MalloyPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 180037593X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
This timely Research Handbook provides a multidisciplinary overview of research on ethno-cultural minority issues at the supranational level of the EU. It delivers a state-of-the-art review of the EU’s approaches to development and institutional implementation of minority policies from the Treaty of Rome until today.
Legal Aspects of Minority Rights Protection in the European Union Within the Perspective of Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Kyriaki TopidiCultural Governance and the European Union
Author: Evangelia PsychogiopoulouPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137453753
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This edited collection brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to explore how the European Union engages with culture. The book examines the ways in which cultural issues have been framed at the EU level and the policies and instruments to which they have given vent.
Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Bernd RechelPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415590310
Category : Europe, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of minority rights in Central and Eastern Europe, covering all the countries of the region that have joined the EU since 2004, including Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.