Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Effective participation of minorities in public affairs and public life - European norms and praxis evaluated in light of the Lund Recommendations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ordinary participation as the starting point -- 3. Obligation of the State to Ensure Effective Participation -- 4. Lund Recommendations on the Effective Participation of National Minorities in Public Life as a Background -- 5. Participation in the Governance of the State as a Whole -- 5.1. Arrangements at the Level of the Central Government -- 5.2. Elections -- 5.3. Arrangements at the Regional and Local Levels -- 5.4. Advisory and Consultative Bodies -- 6. Self-Governance over Certain Local or Internal Affairs -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Non-Territorial Arrangements -- 6.3. Territorial Arrangements -- 7. Concluding Remarks -- European integration and minority rights conditionality policy -- European integration and minority issues -- Conditionality policy and international norms on minority rights -- Norm diffusion - limits and potentials of international standards on minority rights -- Double standards and effective conditionality: non-discrimination and minority specific rights -- European Union enlargement policy and specific minority rights -- European Union minority protection conditionality to South-Eastern European states -- Measuring the impact of EU enlargement -- Conclusions -- The rights of national minorities in Croatia: Beyond European conditionality? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Nationalism vs. European conditionality -- 3. National Minority Rights. Basic principles -- 4. Linguistic and cultural rights -- 5. Political rights -- 6. European conditionality and minority rights in Croatia. From (lack of) implementation to compliance? -- 7. Final remarks

The past decade has shown great changes in the accommodation of minority communities into South-East European and Central European countries. New measures and instruments adopted in these countries often rely on international standards and on the recommendations of international organisations. A new phase of EU conditionality policy has been developed towards SEE countries aspiring to EU membership. Besides the conditionality policy of international organisations – the Council of Europe and EU membership policy –, in the case of Kosovo and Macedonia the intervention of international bodies had a direct influence on domestic policies towards minorities. New bodies of minority self-governments, of elected and non-elected consultative bodies and new solutions for their parliamentary representation have emerged. This book addresses these issues by offering an analysis of different forms of 'effective participation' for minorities in public life, the effects of European integration and detailed case studies of the different models adopted by these states.